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  • And cars were worse for physical health yet here we are.

    I suspect you may be part of the crowd I’m addressing this to but progress is progress and you can’t uninvent shit and you can’t predict adoption.

    As it stands “AI” is here to stay and no movement of luddites is going to change that. Globally “we” are saying it’s valuable.

    What we are lacking right now is control over the speed and direction.

    Going back to the car analogy this is why licenses exist, and registration, and laws. This too will come with AI only when the problem becomes so big or so dangerous to necessitate it. I suspect we will be there soon. Youth unemployment is fucked everywhere and only getting worse.











  • Think less abusive and more not open to put up with delusional bullshit? 🤷‍♂️

    We do both agree it isn’t black and white. I think a lot of AI is bullshit and needs to go away but a lot of it is freaking amazing. Just Friday I solved 2 production issues without needing to engage a vendor because I was able to use their AI agent. I told my boss I spent about 3 hours over 3 days as opposed to 7 days working with the vendor.

    That’s a very real and very substantial cost savings.

    I have a coworker that built a series of copliot skills to effectively automate the creation of artifacts in a bunch of GitHub repos using existing standards. AI writes the code. Quick validation and push to dev. Run QA tests and deploy to PROD. What may have taken me days can now be done in hours.

    I have coworkers who use it in their day to day communications with HR, PAC and Legal on sensitive topics not just to write it but also interpret what they receive.

    Does it cost too much? I think that’s still up on the air for our company that will show up in a year or two.

    Outside of all that, today I was using AI to take pictures of plants to see what is toxic to my cats and checking the references as required.

    I’m saying all this as someone who has serious concerns with AI and the companies behind it. I think governments need to implement harsher laws and bleed these companies dry. I think there should be government owned and run AI models and how to power them needs to be addressed as does the environmental cost. Just like the bullshit Bitcoin conversations a decade ago.

    But all of this can’t be stopped. Progress is progress and I don’t believe any conspiracy that states this is some shadow elite pushing it down our throats. Globally we see the value. It’s becoming widespread adopted globally.





  • I won’t disagree however the demographic here I imagine skews younger which then makes me wonder about where the truth lies. I can only speak from my experience and I see everyone my age and younger at work overwhelmingly embracing it for different purposes.

    My big concern is there seems to be a drop off at 30 on the sheer fact of there are literally no kids to be found at my work. They may be adopting it, they don’t have jobs lol



  • I think too many people are too dug in on the fallacy that real value isn’t being generated by AI. It is. I see it every day at work.

    I get that it’s scary and frustrating and I get that jobs are going to be lost. We (royal) need to do better and demand better from our governments.

    I said elsewhere but the genie is out of the bottle and we can’t wish it away. You either acknowledge that and want to build a sustainable future with it, or you are a luddite digging in their heels on a lost cause.

    Back to the farming analogy on the pod he explained that it was a similar groundswell of protest because jobs were disappearing and people were rightly up in arms. But here we are 100+ years later. The jobs never came back. Tractors are here to stay.