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If you want to dismiss him for being hyperbolic or under estimating the usefulness of AI go for it. If you are making the case that he is full of shit, please
by rdedev 2mo ago
If you want to dismiss him for being hyperbolic or under estimating the usefulness of AI go for it.
If you are making the case that he is full of shit, please provide some actual evidence of his main thesis that AI companies are not going about this in any sustainable way
- JumpCrisscross 2mo ago> his main thesis that AI companies are not going about this in any sustainable way The point isn't that his thesis is fucked, just that his analysis tends to be free with details in a way that shouldn't inspire confidence, e.g. mixing up EBIT and EBITDA. Someone elsewhere in this thread referenced this guy [1]. His takes properly summarise the lack of care Zitron appears to display for getting detailed arguments right. If you're deeply familiar with financial jargon, I think he's fine. But if you're not, it's easy to get whisked into woo-woo nonsense that's falsely precise due to mis-using (and in some cases, very clearly mis-understanding) core financial and economic concepts. [1] https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3mmhtcib3622i https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3mmhtcib3622i
- Danox 2mo agoAI is going to be very useful going into the future. It’s just that it will just be incorporated into the existing programmers tool kit, and not the be all end all.
- andrekandre 2mo agoi think it was cory doctorow (?) who said in an interview: "its just a plugin" for your ide... what i see at $employer is wanting to do everything with ai from start to finish (and i mean everything) but from looking at the output (or lack of) of coworkers i'm thinking that perspective may be closer to the truth...