Then companies will incentivize people to be able to do more with even fewer tokens. and then there will be employees who will do more with zero tokens and they will be called, um I don't know... "10x engineers"
Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool "to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption" (@natlungfy / Bloomberg)
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@SeahawksForever@CorbinSmithNFL would have been very stoppable given the state of the o-line. Penny/Carson made the most of their chances, but there were well below average o-lines back then.
@hawkblogger@heykayadams they're second in betting odds? what am I missing? Is your issue that media isn't covering them enough despite being second in odds?
@TestingRhymes I don't want to give the impression that I'm an AI skeptic. I think as a coding tool it's really good, but it's actually not going to reduce the workforce in the long run--the opposite actually.
long term we may not see mass job loss, but in the short-to-medium term, companies are cutting jobs en-masse expecting AI will replace most labor. This is where there is more angst among tech workers.
Noticing an interesting version of gell-man amnesia where people use AI for their job and see all the various things they have to do in the “last mile”, but then look at someone else’s job and think that AI will eliminate it immediately.
We all have a much deeper appreciation for the nuances and complexities of the work that we do every day. We run into issues about accessing data, we know how much context is needed to get AI models to work the way we need, we have to review the output of the AI to make sure it’s accurate, and then we have to incorporate that work into some broader business process. We see all those steps deeply for the work that we do.
Then, a moment later, we see AI do something in a foreign space and think that it can go automate that entire function. We tend to dramatically underestimate the work that goes into making the AI work just as effectively in those jobs.
This is reason to be skeptical about many of the theories of job loss. It’s coming from the lens of being able to automate individual tasks with AI, without understanding all the work that goes into doing the job fully.