Agreed. It's this kind of delusion that gets promoted to the top. Meanwhile talented persons capable of building SOTA solutions are let go in droves.
Amazon ain't it. "Democratizing AI" is a cover for the fact that Amazon has no models worthy of contention, so they have to save face by funding and serving up other company's models.
One could argue, "oh they have that guy from AllenAI." But where are AllenAI's code generation models? Where are AllenAI's LLMs? Nowhere.
> I am missing something, what is being said that signals incompetence?
You could start at the first quoted remark: "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding."
1. Doesn't seem to demonstrate understanding of what developers actually do.
2. Poor understanding of the limitations of the technology he's talking about.
3. Totally unrealistic timeline.
4. The kind of claim that has been made countless times, about countless technologies, and has never panned out yet. That doesn't mean it won't ever pan out, but it means it warrants a huge amount of skepticism.
At a very basic level, the only way the CEO could say most developers would be replaced is if he has not used state of the art code assistants. It’s either a lack of understanding the role of a developer, or of machine learning, or both.
And last time I checked AWS’ AI assistant won’t even handle IAM policies. So at least those jobs should be safe.
notinmykernel|1 year ago
Amazon ain't it. "Democratizing AI" is a cover for the fact that Amazon has no models worthy of contention, so they have to save face by funding and serving up other company's models.
One could argue, "oh they have that guy from AllenAI." But where are AllenAI's code generation models? Where are AllenAI's LLMs? Nowhere.
Amazon leadership is horribly incompetent.
raman325|1 year ago
tivert|1 year ago
You could start at the first quoted remark: "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding."
1. Doesn't seem to demonstrate understanding of what developers actually do.
2. Poor understanding of the limitations of the technology he's talking about.
3. Totally unrealistic timeline.
4. The kind of claim that has been made countless times, about countless technologies, and has never panned out yet. That doesn't mean it won't ever pan out, but it means it warrants a huge amount of skepticism.
janalsncm|1 year ago
And last time I checked AWS’ AI assistant won’t even handle IAM policies. So at least those jobs should be safe.