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The important question is: Will my work competitor also resist AI? We have no way to organize this, and hence, as they say, "resistance is futile".
by unified101 8d ago
The important question is: Will my work competitor also resist AI? We have no way to organize this, and hence, as they say, "resistance is futile".
- layer8 8d agoIt probably depends on how you are positioned on the market, but my employer has yet to see competitive pressure from not using AI.
- lnkl 8d agoThe point is, you will be better than your competitor if you resist it.
- Foobar8568 8d agoHow so?
- discreteevent 8d agoBecause you will have an understanding of the complete system. Your domain and the code. This means that you can be more creative with it and also get yourself out of a mess if it occurs (which it will). From what I have seen AI doesn't understand the code. But even if you argue that it does understand the code it definitely doesn't understand the domain because it's only input channel is a stream of text and you didn't even type in a "full" text representation of the domain. So you remain the only thing that can understand the whole system. If your competitor has no one (or no team) who can put together a full understanding of the system then you will have an advantage.
- dist-epoch 7d agoYou will have a good understanding of a system which is 20 times smaller in size/features. For a todo app that is fine. But for most projects your competitor will leave you in the dust with the speed at which they add features. Same story, 25 years ago: > But with Lisp our development cycle was so fast that we could sometimes duplicate a new feature within a day or two of a competitor announcing it in a press release. By the time journalists covering the press release got round to calling us, we would have the new feature too. https://paulgraham.com/avg.html https://paulgraham.com/avg.html
- eudamoniac 7d agoWhat happens when the biggest feature that can be touted is concrete objective metrics about bugs/uptime/quality-stuff? Can't slop your way to having the "crafted with love and care, no bugs in production in the last 2 years" feature.
- Foobar8568 7d agoFrom my experience building different systems, there is no moat anymore ( beside your commercial connections for B2B). If one lack understanding of a domain, he will get it by testing the system. So basically nothing has changed from before AI.
- CrimsonRain 7d agoShopify fully embraced AI for a long time. I invite you to blow them out of water and take the market. Go.
- meander_water 8d agoWhat I would love to see is a side by side comparison of two companies (one using AI, and one without) over an extended period of time. Id wager that they would fare the same. The time saved on some tasks are outweighed by extra time spent on others. Everyone assumes that just because you can pump out more features, you're more successful.
- unified101 7d agoWork competitor is also your colleague.
- rDr4g0n 7d agoHistory has a lot to say about the ruling class benefitting from (and ensuring?) the working class cannot organize, because that is exactly when the workers have leverage. workers that feel powerless and dont try to resist is great news for rulers who only serve to generate revenue.
- unified101 7d agoI'm all ears for a solution. But all I hear is some workers want to bar other workers (H1B, seniority, etc) from working. I hear nothing about organizing. Class warfare is nice to write about, but there's been 0 credible approaches in the last 2 years proposed. Do you think it will magically appear sometime? Are we generally prepared to stand with our less experienced colleagues? and immigrants?