It doesn't matter what they claim if they simply can't get the people to babysit the AI codebase or the AIs for less money than the original ones who didn't have to deal with AIs and their output used to cost.

As a pretty senior dev who spent a lot of my career as a contractor mainly coming in to unfuck code-bases seriously fucked up by a couple of cycles under less experienced people, if I was pitched work to unfuck AI work I would demand a premium for my services purelly because of it being far more more fucked up in far harder to follow ways than the work done by less experience humans (who at least are consistent in the mistakes they make and follow a specific pattern in how they work) even without any moral considerations (on principle I would probably just not take a contract with a company that had used AI like that).

I mean, I can see their strategy work for junior devs, but that kind of reducing the power of specialized workers was already being done against junior devs using "outsourcing".

Before AI it was "The Cloud". Before the cloud it was "Virtualization". They're saying all the same things about AI that they said about the cloud and virtualization...

So you're saying AI will make a measurable (arguably net positive) impact and forever change the way we do things in our day to day, just becoming a standard toolset offered by many providers? Because I'd argue that's what virtualization was, as well as the cloud to a lesser extent. Hell, I'd be hard pressed to be convinced on virtualization being a bad thing (not as much the cloud tho, that has some solid negative arguments).

If you're trying to shit talk AI, you'd be better off comparing it to block chain than cloud/virtualization, since the latter two are an integral part of a large amount of the work we do, and the former is mainly for illicit drugs/activities and stealing money.

The Cloud is still a thing though. As is virtualization

And AI (LLMs, media generation, machine learning) are going to stay a thing as well.

Everytime I see this kind of hype pop up I think back to when there was this great announcement from Silicon Valley about a "revolution in transportation" and it turned out to be the Segway.

I think it's a real shame because all three of those things you mention are useful. The problem is that once they become a buzzword, then everything needs to be done using that buzzword.

Cloud has been misused to hell and back, and I have no doubt AI will too.

Oooo hot take time: I'd rather work in an office again than be forced to use LLMs.