General Discussion

Whenever I hear that AI is going to take over every job, will handle complex tasks like application development, and, will completely take over customer service, etc., I always shake my head. This post reads like a sales pitch to a clueless CEO who has no idea how AI works.

No, AI will not lead to a job apocalypse. It will replace some jobs. However, it can’t do complex reasoning. Also, “AI” is such a broad term, and, “AI” has been around for decades at this point.

AI is receiving an input from the user and vomiting out an output based on models trained on existing data. It will never create anything new, nor will it innovate or show creativity. It only fakes ingenuity because that’s all part of the smoke and mirrors of LLMs (and, I’m aware there is more to “AI” than LLMs).

Also, LLMs like chatGPT hallucinate all the time. They are not suitable for producing formal documents like court documents. If produced by AI, text still needs to be reviewed by a human for accuracy.

For application development - Nobody ever answers how those applications will be maintained. The “vibe coding” trend was a complete failure because of this, as anyone who has experience as a developer predicted. Maintenance and support of software applications actually matters a lot more than building them out. AI content generation and LLMs don’t have an answer to this, nor will they for a really long time.

Companies like OpenAI are quite honestly, imo, grifting at this point. They want you to believe AI will be this all-powerful innovation because that’s their sales tactic. Sure, there have been a lot of innovations related to AI, but, vast improvements to it will take time. It’s enshittifying already, which is going to delay its progress as well.