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skwirl | 3 days ago

We’re reaching “Don’t Look Up” levels of denial about the impact of AI on this site.

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gusmally|3 days ago

For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.

LostMyLogin|3 days ago

As someone that is only five years into their career at this point, I feel so helpless.

jmmoses|3 days ago

Same. Plus I have kids and a mortgage. My company just had a 5% layoff and I survived. Seems like it will be the first of many rounds. It's a really stressful time.

tech_jabroni|3 days ago

To be clear, I'm confident the impact of AI is going to be massive, and that massive impact is already underway rather than years away. But, separate from that, having seen it up close Block was bloated as hell

coolThingsFirst|2 days ago

Yeah. We are coping. Just today, I had a simple bug where the data received was throwing undefined because it was in 2 alternate formats.

I showed ChatGPT(free-tier) the API response and the part of the code reading it, and it fixed it in 5 seconds. Would've been pretty short either way less than 30-40 mins but it's very good for simple tasks like these. The solution is just correct.

MattGaiser|3 days ago

Even if they are right about quality, people on here vastly overstate the value of quality. From socks to dishwashers to airfares, slop is a valid product as long as it is cheap. Security from a business perspective has been proven not quite optional, but it is hardly catastrophic if it fails.

anonnon|3 days ago

> Even if they are right about quality, people on here vastly overstate the value of quality

I always found the quality argument strange; what software are these people using that makes them think quality is a high priority?