Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble

• figjam@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That was cloud 7 years ago and blockchain 4

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• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Reminds me of when I read about a programmer getting turned down for a job because they didn’t have 5 years of experience with a language that they themselves had created 1 to 2 years prior.

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• macrocephalic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m a data engineer and I get that there’s a lot of potential in analytics with AI, but you don’t need to hire a data engineer with LLM experience for aggregating payroll data.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    there’s a lot of potential in analytics with AI

    I’d argue there is a lot of potential in any domain with basic numeracy. In pretty much any business or institution somebody with a spreadsheet might help a lot. That doesn’t necessarily require any Big Data or AI though.

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