They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true. Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
Exactly. I'm just sitting by the riverbank and I already saw few corpses of AI poisoned projects float by. The worst/best thing is that usually when a project implode it does so with very little time to unfuck it, so rates for someone who can fix it without slopping it are high.
I think yesterday or the day before I read something similar about Microsoft delivering poor products to their customers and they literally created an aftermarket and a support ecosystem by this. 🤷♀️
@NickBergenComputerQuest True. I'm not against technologies. I'm against the abuse of technology. Or misuse of technology. Or imposition of technology.
True - but... when I was a craftsman, some of my most lucrative jobs were fixing bad builders' errors, usually on a short time schedule; customers in that situation are usually less cost-sensitive & I'd have to work weekends, so my bill went up.
- but it stops being fun very quickly. You're rarely hired to do a good job; just to unfuck someone else's mistakes as much as time & budget allows. For me, at least, this did not make for satisfying work...
@jwcph I totally agree. But they usually learn the lesson and stop doing things in the bad way. The next time, they'll call a proper consultant or specialist.
it's exceptionally profitable for the energy companies who are using this artificial demand to inflate prices. That's why they've subsidized shoehorning AI into everything
@uriel Seriously. It's getting more and more common. They need servers -> use AI to tell them how to configure them -> make a mess -> "aaahhh we need the cloud as servers don't work!"
that's what I'll probably live of in the future, as a developer. But I'm not happy at all: fixing vibed code is an horrible task. It's not like fixing code written by an intern: there's intent in that, it probably tried to understand the problem and then (failed at?) deliver a solution. In the case of vibed code, there's only a list of example inputs and attended results: the generated code may be everything, it's probably easier to rewrite it from scratch, a price the customer will not want to pay, because "it worked perfectly until now!"...
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in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •I'm just sitting by the riverbank and I already saw few corpses of AI poisoned projects float by.
The worst/best thing is that usually when a project implode it does so with very little time to unfuck it, so rates for someone who can fix it without slopping it are high.
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in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •AI is just a tool. You have to use it in the right place at the right time.
When someone wants to cut corners, they will just pay for it later. Glad you could invoice for that!
I know other guys who rightfully do not like Windows, but are grateful for the work fixing the crazy things they do.
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- but it stops being fun very quickly. You're rarely hired to do a good job; just to unfuck someone else's mistakes as much as time & budget allows. For me, at least, this did not make for satisfying work...
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in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •the bad news is that this might set innovation back a decade
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in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •AI, it turns out, is the Cybertruck of computers.
Overhyped, oversold, overpriced, made billionaires out of liars, and fascists out of greedy billionaires, and it ... rusts.
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This is why 😽 think we're stupid.
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in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •AI-generated integrated systems config & procedural advice is generally crap dressed up nice.
Some of it might work, but finding what does is like trying to pick a few grains of salt from a bucket of sand.
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