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DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 day agoYou forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves
To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.
It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.
Like what?
Law enforcement and military
I certainly expect that the visual models are meeting expectations in the racial profiling department.
www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/01/05/…/9641767634540/
Doesn’t seem to be meeting expectations in that sector either.
Oh yeah I just read how AI keeps suggesting nuking everyone. That sounds like a great success. (I get what you mean, I just wanted to be a wiseass)
I think it’s more like expectations have been deliberately lowered in those fields to meet exactly what AI can deliver. Unpredictable, arbitrary, non-negotiable decisions are the point, and the goal. It’s not about enforcing any laws or achieving any actual outcome other than making innocent people fear for their lives. And it’s doing a fine job at that.
Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc
Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.
Most of these aren’t generative AI, tho?
I have a feeling, that the tech sector has enough kompromat on a lot of important people to keep the bubble from bursting.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Also in a few years when the AI generated nonsense code reaches a critical point and a ton of important systems grind to a halt, we’ll expect all of you that we fired to come back and un-fuck it for us so we can keep on making money. On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.
Nikelui@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
But the crash is the moment where the people with actual tech knowledge will have leverage to say them: “pay me 10 times my standard rate or get bent”
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I hope so! But if the economy gets bad enough I can see people getting desperate enough that they’ll all scramble and under-cut each other into oblivion just to secure the work. Time will tell I guess.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Software engineers predicted this would happen. The percentage of developers that love fixing other people’s code is essentially zero, fixing ai code is even smaller.
If they require low wages, they’ll only get the worst of the worst. Expect this phase to repeat until they are forced to hire for competence and pay above market rate required to convince senior developers to deal with not just the ai mess but all the failed attempts to turn it around.