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395 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ilrwbwrkhv ◴[09 Apr 25 15:57 UTC] No.43633555[source]▶
AI bubble seems close to collapsing. God knows how many billions have been invested and we still don't have an actual use case for AI which is good for humanity.
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boredemployee ◴[09 Apr 25 16:05 UTC] No.43633642[source]▶
I think I understand what you're trying to say.

We certainly improve productivity, but that is not necessarily good for humanity. Could be even worse.

i.e.: my company already expect less time for some tasks given that they _know_ I'll probably use some AI to do tasks. Which means I can humanly handle more context in a given week if the metric is "labour", but you end up with your brain completely melted.

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bluefirebrand ◴[09 Apr 25 16:10 UTC] No.43633701[source]▶
> We certainly improve productivity

I think this is really still up for debate

We produce more output certainly but if it's overall lower quality than previous output is that really "improved productivity"?

There has to be a tipping point somewhere, where faster output of low quality work is actually decreasing productivity due to the efforts now required to keep the tower of garbage from toppling

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fourseventy ◴[09 Apr 25 16:31 UTC] No.43634003[source]▶
It's not up for debate. Ask any programmer if LLMs improve productivity and the answer is 100% yes.
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1. bluefirebrand ◴[09 Apr 25 16:42 UTC] No.43634190[source]▶
I am a programmer and my opinion is that all of the AI tooling my company is making me use gets in the way about as often as it helps. It's probably overall a net negative, because any code it produces for me takes longer for me to review and ensure correctness as it would to just write it

Does my opinion count?