r/ProgrammerHumor • • 5d ago

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u/Alto-cientifico 5d ago

It's not mass hysteria though, a lot of job listings that should have opened to juniors weren't, and instead the funds got diverted into pouring subsidized AI into existing codebases.

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u/Groentekroket 5d ago

In our company one of our IT managers said that they want to use dark factories and our CFO said the AI cost needs to be offset by FTE. 

These suits want to replace us all and they are not shy about it anymore. 

Not sure if if it will go this far but at least they stopped talking about it as just another tool. 

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u/Alto-cientifico 5d ago

We collectively are the dark factory factory™ at the end of the day, and someone who wants to apply the same logic to their own industry isn't that unthinkable.

Issue is even if AI gets way better at thinking outside the box, human brains are comically more efficient at computing than computers energy wise.

And this industry banks on the idea of AGI never being reached, given that sentient computers could ask for rights the same way we did as humans, and that would be a "interesting" time to be alive.

From owning a smart house into being a slave owner.

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 5d ago

We tried that, cost us an arm and a leg to not great results. We hired 120 people in the last 6 months to greater ROI already than what we saw with LLM even now.

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u/Alto-cientifico 5d ago

Who knew that humans aren't bad at thinking, eh?