I definitely hope so, like it will with dotcom bubble. If the bubble burst delays the rise of killer robots, then I am all for another economic recession!
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Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All for it to fail and implode on its own weight.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rozodru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Already starting to, at least for smaller companies and startups that were trying to use it to build things end to end.
If you use it to provide you with content, sure, easy no worries. building a website? sure no problem as long as it doesn’t require any sort of logins or security stuff. an application? well now you’re going to have some problems.
Most AI can’t scale something. and most are absolutely horrible at any sort of security. and all of them can’t UX themselves out a wet paper bag.
Now if you utilize them as a tool, a sort of rubber duck, sure they’re great. The issue is, and I’m seeing this first hand because of my job, is that many smaller companies and start ups aren’t doing that. They’re assigning someone, a “vibe coder”, to feed the thing prompts to build stuff from end to end. Naturally the end product is an insanely resource heavy, convoluted code, exploitable mess that can’t scale. It creates a massive amount of tech debt. All to save a couple grand instead of hiring actual devs. So now when I get a call or email from one of my contacts that “so and so’s company/start up needs someone to clean up their app because it’s very broken due to a vibe coder” I charge them an arm and a leg.
So you’re right, it is going to fail and implode on it’s own weight but I’m going to damn well be sure to take advantage of these people before it completely does and I encourage other freelance/consultant developers to do the same.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The hype for AI is ridiculous:
fortune.com/…/hp-humane-deal-ai-pin-shutting-down…
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They see Meta paying $200 mil or more to get a single employee and think about half that is a steal for a whole team of failed AI centric people
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Could I ever pay you to help refine my coding ability? I need to talk it out with someone. My adhd makes reading things difficult.