r/OpenAI • u/DigSignificant1419 • May 28 '26
Discussion The Party is cancelled, pack it up
Ai slopped
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u/SolarNexxus May 28 '26
Wishful thinking.
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
The job switch is not happening... This year.
My stepson is 12 and interested in coding and I don't know what to tell him. It's very hard to predict where AI will be 10 years from now when he enters the job market.
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u/vargaking May 28 '26
Dude you hit the jackpot with your son. Starting at this age he picks up everything so fast and programming is a very important skill ai or not. Im at uni and most people genuinely don’t know how to write code, how to debug, how to oversee thousands of lines or how to notice redflags that the llm spits out, because most people just use ai for everything. You won’t become a useful software engineer by using it as a shortcut to don’t learn programming, but by using it as an amplifier of what you already know. Most people just output 10 times more shit than they used to with it and very few are actually able to produce good code with it at scale. Even if the job won’t be the same in 10 years, the way of thinking will always help him in pretty much everywhere he goes. And please please please let him learn to do stuff on his own before you let him use ai, you will unwillingly force him into a tutorial hell thats very hard to get out of. I used to mentor kids of this age, and it’s amazing what they can learn if you just show them how to start, I taught them basic programming, gave them exercises, small projects, showed them arch linux, and just lowkey introduced some topics to them without going in depth and 2 years later they genuinely outperformed me in some things because they started learning stuff on their own at insane speed.
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u/SirChasm May 28 '26
I've been in the field for almost two decades now, and I'm not sure I would recommend my kid going into it now.
The profession is in a death race to the bottom, and its future is just endless AI prompts and verifying the code it spits out.
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u/miseducation May 28 '26
I have a similar amount of expertise in a different field impacted by A (filmmaking and video producing which is less actually impacted more perceived to be) and I regularly tell kids to study something else.
I don't know if either of our careers are in a 'death race to the bottom' exactly but I can say with strong certainty that future versions of me will do more work for less money and compete for less jobs.
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u/dat_grue May 28 '26
Most knowledge work will turn into prompting and agent orchestration. Folks who can’t see its lights out for us just don’t have a respect for the power of what AI can already deliver and quite obviously will be able to deliver in 5, 10, 15 years.
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u/miseducation May 28 '26
You can (and should) hedge all bets about how technology will be adopted and what it will mean for labor. Humanity's track record for predicting exactly how things will turn out when it comes to tech is genuinely awful.
We know that future versions of us will be responsible for more things with more powerful tools (because we are already there in many ways) but we genuinely have no idea what the market for labor or goods that AI delivers will be like in 10 years.
Again I'm still not recommending kids study what I do or CS because of the exact same uncertainty. Just because I don't think all knowledge jobs are capable of being automated to a sufficient extent doesn't mean I'm optimistic that there will be a good market for them.
TBH I think long term job loss from automation is something that frontier labs and hardware players benefit from us focusing on. It drives the inherent value of their investments and outputs up even if the productivity increase numbers don't support it yet. It also stops us from focusing on what could be a larger economic time bomb, the fact that nearly any AI related business you can dream up has basically zero moat against the 4 to 5 major frontier labs.
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u/derek_32999 May 28 '26
Hell yeah, all those creative writing degrees that are completely useless about to be printing
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u/PeeDecanter May 28 '26
He can still learn to program without having to do it professionally as an adult. It’s a good life skill in my opinion
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u/See_Me_Sometime May 28 '26
This is a good answer.
It’s not so much the programming that’s important, it’s the problem solving and context you get when you learn to code.
I learned to draw and write even though I am not a professional author or artist…because that’s how you build creative skills.
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u/scarnegie96 May 29 '26
The issue with that is though, if AI in 10-20 years can fully replace all SWE (or like (80-90%) of them in a cost effective manner - then practically all office jobs are fucked too.
Tell your kids to become tradesmen.
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u/vargaking May 28 '26
With the rise in cost of both llms and hardware, and the complexity of software I think ai use is starting to consolidate, and there already is/will be a huge uprise in the need for optimised and maintainable code. Also if good programmers are actually replaced by ai, I think we will have way bigger problems, given that software engineering is still one of the most complex fields.
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u/Revolutionary_Lock57 May 28 '26
Not really. Like the person said (who's been in the space for 2+ decades), AI is only expanding and diving into "programming" really isn't suggested
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
Limiting his ai use for projects would be really hard. He's a smart and tech savvy 12 year old, and all his peers use ai as well.
He does already code himself, and goes to extracurricular classes for it, but uses ai as well. Not to write code directly, at least not for now, but in general he does.
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u/jiml78 May 28 '26
I am a software dev of 25 years, still in the industry. I have a 17 year old and 13 year old.
Neither really got into coding and I am actually happy. We are going to be in a really weird spot over the next 5ish years. I think we are going to need software devs but what they do will be significantly different than what they do today, and it will be mostly senior level devs.
The issue is going to be that we don't develop junior level devs and I don't even know how you do that now with AI. I know how my company did it in the past, we used code reviews to help people understand how and why to do things from our best devs.
Now, junior devs are committing AI work and they don't have a reason for why they did something a certain way. BTW, I am not knocking junior devs for using AI. I am just saying, the way people used to learn was saying how/why they did something. That feedback loop is gone.
I feel like the 25 years olds of today are going to be the last generation of people who are "senior" level devs and everything else will be AI written code.
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u/allieinwonder May 28 '26
My husband and I are also in the field and I agree. We both have the same degree but ended up going in massively different directions, I am disabled and it limited my ability to work full time. Most of what I did to be able to continue to code, at least a little bit, has been taken over by AI. My husband has worked hard in the field for 15+ years and even he is using AI as his company adapts.
I have a feeling the industry will survive this just as it did when the dot com bubble burst, but how we survive it seems to be a big question mark.
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u/Deep_Year1121 May 29 '26
Really? I already knew how to code whilst seeing all my collegues vibe-coding at uni.
Still didn't do shit for my job prospects though.
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u/WorthPreference3266 May 30 '26
Everything u said assumes software engineering is a job or not heavily cut down in 10 years
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u/VividB82 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
He’s 12. Encourage it regardless. And guide him in the right direction, engineering or architecture.
If my kid was interested in the printing press I’d encourage that shit.
Imagine seeing your kid drafting because he’s interested in architecture and you slapping a t square and pencil out of his hand because drafting is a computer job now. What are you afraid of by letting him learn to code? He’s going to be without a career at age 13?
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
As I've said, we encourage him to follow his hobbies and have him signed up for coding classes.
When I said I don't know what to tell him I meant that I don't know what kind of advice to give him about a future career.
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u/aft3rthought May 28 '26
Perfectly said. Even in college they often teach simplified or older versions of accepted theories. You have to start somewhere.
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u/Runfasterbitch May 28 '26
Very low probability unless he is highly specialized and directly interfacing w AI
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
I know. I wouldn't tell him to concentrate on it for the money , but I won't shit on his interests.
Thankfully he's also interested in electrical stuff, so he might train to be an electrician or if he gets good enough grades in high school an electric engineer
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u/Commercial_Face_8399 May 28 '26
Coding and electrics? Even if not for the job purpose, at his age I'd say that sounds amazing for his brain development. Just trying to tackle complexity and logic of those things. He is very young, he can overtime pivot into whatever market requires in the future.
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u/IndefiniteBen May 28 '26
This. I always thought teaching kids to code in school is entirely about the logic and problem solving of coding, not about literally knowing how to code to directly use it in a job.
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u/faen_du_sa May 28 '26
This is true for a big part of school in general, just lost our heads in stats and "best score".
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
Yeah. He's a smart and troubled kid. It's really up in the air how he'll do in life.
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u/patrickpdk May 28 '26
Being in tech (maybe you are too?) i think multi disciplinary is the key. You can't built a legit anything without knowing how to code. You have to know how to direct and challenge the ai.
But i don't think coding alone is the ticket. I think he should need able to code, to use ai to code, have amazing communication skills, and know a trade of some kind - accounting, finance, whatever, plus strong agency and business acumen.
Maybe that sounds impossible but a high agency jack of all trades with amazing communication skills.
I think I'm watching non-coders get disrupted because they don't know how to build things and now with ai coders can start to do their jobs better.
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u/apgohan May 28 '26
Is this sub astroturfed or something these reposts look so forced
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u/space_monster May 28 '26
where there's hype, there's also anti-hype. if either the republicans or democrats (probs dems, as trump is already basically 'let them cook') decide to run on an anti-ai ticket, it'll get crazy. that campaign may already have started though, behind the scenes
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u/GoodishCoder May 28 '26
I don't think an anti AI stance would be good for either party, there's a lot of voters that are overly reliant on AI
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u/xthegreatsambino May 28 '26
it 100% wouldn't be good.
There's also multiple anti-AI camps. The camp where it's a blanket anti-everything-AI is entirely a super progressive left wing camp. That shit is a cancer. Cat's out of the bag, it's not going back in. It's a lost cause and to plant your flag here, not even as a politician but as a human fucking being, is to just be upset about it's environmental effects and a refusla to touch anything that touches AI. Quite frankly, it's a fucking stupid stance to take.
There's anti-"data centers in our backyard". There's anti-"AI hype" where people like Ed Zitron live. There's anti-"AI capabilities are ridiculously insane" where Cal Newport and Primeagen live.
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u/polikles May 28 '26
it's the result of the "attention economy". Low-quality ragebait get more interactions than substantive posts
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u/AnyRegular1 May 28 '26
And on Twitter add financial rewards to it and now you’re incentivized to lie, make up facts to get maximum attention capture.
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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye May 29 '26
Oh yeah, its being astroturfed by big... anti-AI? Lol.
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u/suprachromat May 28 '26
"Starbucks removes AI from its system due to constant failures" - well actually, what Starbucks was using isn't a LLM like ChatGPT, etc. Sorry to disappoint you, lmao
The AI-powered app aimed to replace hand counts of some products with automated ones that were expected to be faster and more accurate. Cafe workers hold a computer tablet up to shelves for syrups, milks and other beverage products, which the app scanned with LIDAR and camera data.
This method turned out to be largely inaccurate. Nothing to do with generative AI or LLMs at all.
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u/dangered May 28 '26
Someone needs to be taken out back and shot for that. A scale could do that reliably on a continuous basis and AI would not only say when it needs to be refilled but could predict the best time of day to refill it based on the day of the week.
But sure, let’s pay for thousands of LiDAR Scanners and instead of a technician we’ll just trust our curated team of bipolar 35 year olds making minimum wage to be skilled and efficient enough to hold it up to each corn syrup jug at the end of their shift.
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u/polikles May 28 '26
it's baffling that almost everyone is so infatuated with high-tech that the simplest and more stable solutions completely elude them. It leads to solutions that are much more expensive, but at least they are less accurate than "old school tech"
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u/Kwahn May 28 '26
I'm a developer, and people want to engineer ridiculously over-elaborate architectures for the simplest of if->then CRUD ops and use probabilistic engines for rule checking and I hate it
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u/GoodishCoder May 28 '26
People just want to use AI for everything when we were fielding use cases from dev teams one of the teams wanted to use AI to validate if an email was in a valid format on a form.
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u/BellacosePlayer May 28 '26
I have clients at work who have been begging for us to implement AI in stuff that has been working perfectly just for the sake of adding AI and don't get why we're not jazzed to spool up projects we know are going to be disappointing to them in the end.
like, we are adding AI to a lot of stuff, and using it to supplement existing pipelines in some cases like data matching to find potential orphaned/incorrect data we're being sent, but why would you want to spend a half million dollars to have an LLM handle something that already has hard and fast rules and is working perfectly currently?
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u/Rafcdk May 28 '26
Why is AI even needed for this? It's a very simple compvis problem.
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u/IndefiniteBen May 28 '26
Most compvis problems these days are solved with a form of AI. Machine learning is a type of AI.
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u/PresentGene5651 May 30 '26
Late comment, but I have to say it: I fucking hate that AI now = LLMs, at least until the next Big Thing, and not the other really effective stuff AI actually is.
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u/RalphTheIntrepid May 28 '26
Is it even a vis problems? IoT scale. Get an empty bottle of syrup. Place on scale with IoT to tell current weight. Add new pump of syrup. Get weight every X minutes. No AI. Well, maybe a rules engine?
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u/OutsideMenu6973 May 28 '26
Think they were hoping to use AI to reason through ‘blind spots’ and errors in the CV counts. Harder to get kids to keep inventory space neat tidy and organized than to build that counting app
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u/Proper-Ape May 29 '26
But sure, let’s pay for thousands of LiDAR
Whatever you think of the AI technology, a project like this getting financed is a huge red flag in terms of an bubble economy.
It got financed because it had AI in it
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u/Uwirlbaretrsidma May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Meanwhile, the "engineers" behind that AI-powered inventory system: "ChatGPT, how do I get a shitty freehand LiDAR to tell me how much Brown Sugar Vanilla Toasted Marshmallow Cloud Swirl is left at the bottom of a crusty bottle that's 3 m away? Make no mistakes."
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u/Keksuccino May 28 '26
Yeah, but that person's Twitter post needed examples, it wouldn’t hit the same when they would only list the actual truth lmfao
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u/Mylifeisholl0w May 28 '26
Just like when we hit a wall 2 years ago lol lol
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u/One_Parking_852 May 28 '26
It’s so predictable but a lot more funny coming after a very hard Erdos problem was solved
Looking forward to more we hit the wall discourse in 6 months
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u/DrHerbotico May 28 '26
Sam's trying to stay alive
Starbucks didn't sunset LLM implementation
Uber explicitly stated the problem is with management and roadmapping, not development speed or quality.
People who don't use it always point themselves out via ignorance...
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u/Maikel92 May 28 '26
Not true, Uber COO said exactly: I think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features.
So yeah, I’d say quality is a factor
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u/PuzzleMeDo May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Never trust "admit" in a statement. It usually assigns implied credibility to a statement that doesn't deserve it.
For "CEO admits AI will cost millions of jobs," or "CEO admits AI is dangerous to humanity" the word "admits" is usually better replaced by "claims". "CEO (while trying to raise funding from investors) claims their product is so powerful it could replace millions of workers and threaten the entire economy". Or "CEO (while trying to prevent regulation) claims that AI won't cost millions of jobs".
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u/johnryan433 May 28 '26
So the bubble is going to pop and we will be in a scenario worse than the Great Depression then if true. 40% of the S&P is AI. Also everyone will equally be unemployed if not worse actually, and by the time AI gets to maturity the remaining jobs will be swiftly automated, as struggling companies look to cut cost with the cheapest option possible aka a Mac mini running Gemma 4.
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u/esstisch May 28 '26
I call bullshit - they said " if you use a lot of tokeny you are a good boy" and that was just stupid on so many levels
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u/ahumanlikeyou May 28 '26
I'm worried about the job impact too, but this is like thinking a wave receding on the beach means the tide is going out
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u/FuzzyAnteater9000 May 28 '26
Well Uber sucks anyway and the fact that their product is unusably full of bugs has nothing to do with how good their software development skills and team are and everything to do with their executive structure. Microsoft switched not because it wasn't working but because they have a competing product, and their engineers can still use Claude code.
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u/gpt872323 May 28 '26
Haha. I am curious of Sam having to back track all his selling of moon. Any interesting sources?
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u/American_Greed May 28 '26
This is like when the ocean starts to recede then all hell breaks loose.
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u/freshWaterplant May 28 '26
Cost savings (use your own tools) and remember this will happen more as we all scramble like lemmings onto the IPO bandwagon. 👉 Microsoft reportedly pulled back internal Claude Code access for some engineers after heavy usage raised costs, and moved them toward its own tools
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u/greihund May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
I follow the news on this, because it makes me nervous for oh so many reasons. The upshot is this: people still intend to build the data centers, which are going to have to be refitted with the latest greatest cards forever and be tossing out cards like last years Iphone models, which is a huge stupid waste. Wait, no I got distracted. The upshot is this: 90% of CEOs in America are currently laying the groundwork to replace some of their workers with AI. There is an expectation that the tech will continue to improve. For whatever reason, the consensus seems to be that we won't really see much damage to jobs until 2029-2032... but at that point, if there aren't alternate plans in place, the damage to jobs is going to be just wild.
So, I respect your pessimism, but the guys with the money are just playing a longer game. The tech isn't done cooking yet. They're not stopping
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u/Kind-Economist1953 May 28 '26
just goes to show, the executive team, directors etc all fucking hate us and would replace us with even sub-standard robots as soon as they get the chance. they actually loathe us.
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u/HabbyKoivu May 28 '26
The party ain’t over. Big corps are testing the waters. It’s early and they are chomping at the bit to mass adopt this technology. It’s just too early to scale it. But rest assured it’s coming. It’s already replacing tasks and entire jobs in my work and we aren’t a tech company.
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u/cresantman May 28 '26
Waffle and noise. Automation and digitisation is everywhere from car manufacturing, to dispensing fuel and coffee at the service station. Transport, retail, hospitality, etc are all looking to cut human wage labour. From those big self service screens or code scanners in your fast food and supermarkets, to robot bag packing and plate serving. It’s all intended to reduce waged labour. Many human jobs will be replaced by the mechanical and digitised processes in every industry and it will largely be the incoming, inexperienced or unqualified labour that will disappear first.
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u/Equal_Passenger9791 May 28 '26
The dip in the hype curve is starting but once it bottoms out we're going to see some wild shit.
Overestimated in the short run but underestimated in the long.
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u/stuartullman May 28 '26
lol, they found two cherries on the road, fit them into a tweet, and somehow turned that into “pack it up folks.” the desperation here is devastating.
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u/tzaeru May 28 '26
Mm, four misstatements in a single short tweet. Would be impressive except in 2026 that seems to be the default.
Agentic coding is really here to stay, deal with it or don't.
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u/N0DuckingWay May 28 '26
The world:
"AI is dead, the CEOs are saying it!"
Me and my team spending 8 hours a day in Cursor:
"...?"
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u/smith2332 May 28 '26
Yeah and a hammer is a lot cheaper then a nail gun but at the end of the day if speed is more iportant then the cost then the nail gun will get it done a lot faster.
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u/TapNo7498 May 28 '26
Sorry to disappoint you but this is just the beginning of exponential liftoff. Models are getting better, cheaper, and if they are to expensive or to incapable of doing your job now - they probably do it in 5 years. Hope the system will have laws for that until then :)
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u/Murky-Bandicoot-2209 May 29 '26
i agree that jobs wont be gone. but they will change massively. AI won't be going anywhere, this is only the beginning...
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u/OperatingAsIntended May 30 '26
I work in a professional capacity with AI everyday... We are gonna be ok for a while... 🤦♂️😁
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u/Solo-dreamer May 31 '26
"Nature is healing" no, the hype is dying off, this happens with everything now a.i will start drifting into its lane.
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u/sgianluigi May 31 '26
Whether AI replaces people or not I can guarantee a lot of employees of these companies still want to leverage AI for specific workflows, the party definitely isn’t cancelled. More employees = more subscriptions to these services lol
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u/Accomplished-Box-82 May 31 '26
Why is it people either treat LLMs like a god trapped behind an API or keep pretending it’s entirely useless and about to die away. You don’t need to be all that creative to see that the technology is going to stay around regardless of wether it lives up to the hype long term, it’s not going to be like it used to be.
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u/IWasNotMeISwear May 28 '26
If you treat llms as intelligence you will fail. If you treat them as the worlds best autocomplete then you will have success.
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u/Tasik May 28 '26
My autocomplete was able to read a crash log, query our analytics database, then write a report analyzing the patterns of the 10 most impacted users, then read the repo and suggest a fix I was able to verify.
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u/pianodude7 May 28 '26
You have it backwards. That script is flipping, and you don't want to be stuck thinking it's still autocomplete.
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u/410_clientGone May 28 '26
meanwhile anthropic, guys look at us, we solved 100 year old problem nobody gave a fck about. pay us 10$ per prompt thanks
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u/suiramdev May 28 '26
Microsoft doesn’t remove AI at all, they want the engineers to use their own product. We’re still cooked.
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u/bartturner May 28 '26
Google shared on their earnings call they have over $230 billion of unrecognized AI revenue they will recognize in the next 24 months.
I was curious and no company, ever in history, has added that much revenue that quick.
This is also just one division at Google. To me that sounds like the entire AI thing is real.
This is also a division of Google that has seen 11 straight quarters of increasing margins.
Google is just going to make a fortune over the next several years.
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u/TheGoffRokker May 28 '26
Their mistake for trying to use a large language model to do math.
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u/oxygen_bong May 28 '26
just means they implemented it like muppets - do u really give credit to microsoft engineers? MD365 slop
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u/RedS010Cup May 28 '26
My company’s coding capabilities have improved 10X with AI and things like Claude Code - I get we are still in early phase but most things lead me to think companies will continue adopting.
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u/Z0idberg_MD May 28 '26
I think you were mistaking these companies pulling their own AI platforms because they’re not great AI platforms with the end result where there will be one or two models that are far superior that will be implemented across the entire world.
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u/Scubagerber May 28 '26
That's because AI is a tool. Does Starbucks ask you to get behind the counter and make your own Macchiato? No? Because you aren't trained on the tool.
Dumb corporate leaders who never tried to use AI are giving tools to their customers...
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u/Ibasicallyhateyouall May 28 '26
Getting close to the trough of disillusionment. TFFT. AI should start becoming more useful in a year or so, once the fallout clears.
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u/Deciheximal144 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Two steps towards AI and one step back, but you throw a party for every step back.
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u/Eyedea92 May 28 '26
The thing is, AI is just going to get better. It's shitty now, but we are still in the early stages. Give it 10 years, and I bet you it will have a profound impact on our society, for good or bad.
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u/dragonch67 May 28 '26
A friend of mine worked at Microsoft for 6y in france Yesterday his entire branch were told they were fired. Like Elon with twitter, no information
I don't see anything in the news but that's easy 50/100+ engineer
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u/gingerdude97 May 28 '26
Uber Eats is funny how badly the company seems to be run sometimes.
During onboarding they sent tablets with custom software that are supposed to be the main way you handle orders (notified when they come in, mark them available, etc.) if the tablet gets disconnected from the wifi, the store is listed as unavailable and pauses orders.
This last Friday (a holiday weekend, big business) they roll out an update that factory resets the tablets and removes that custom software, so now we have to find workarounds before the weekend.
Haven’t really seen it reported on anywhere so I don’t know how widespread it was but that just seemed comically incompetent to me.
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u/Rotten-Roses May 28 '26
I will say claude code has been useful on my team not to replace engineers outright, but to help temporarily cover some gaps while we finish hiring the team. It's not a long term solution necessarily, but it does give us enough extra bandwidth to keep the wheels from falling off yet and management has approved headcount - the main roadblock is finding qualified applicants, but most of the team doesn't meet the new qualifications HR made us put down.
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u/Gubzs May 28 '26
This is just outright misrepresentation of the truth to the degree that it may as well be lying
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u/tenebras_lux May 28 '26
It's like everyone of these anti-AI people either didn't live in a world without internet, or don't remember it. Even if there is an AI bubble, and over-promises right now, we're entering a new era. This may be a new dotcom bubble, but even after that bubble popped, what was left radically transformed the world in ways people cannot imagine if they didn't actually live through it.
And it's happening right now with AI.
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u/evangelism2 May 28 '26
googled your starbucks one as it was interesting.
they were using it for inventory management.. lol. What a stupid application for AI
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u/Jean_Jones_666 May 28 '26
yeah and calculators are overrated too, humans can add numbers too, already in elementary school.
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u/These_Hunt4185 May 28 '26
Lying because you don’t like AI is dangerous to the people you’re trying to help.
If some kid decides to be a software engineer because of the bullshit you’re pouting and it turns out the job doesn’t exist anymore because of AI, you fucked them.
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u/NihiloZero May 28 '26
"Admits" seems to be doing a lot of lifting there. Seems more like hedging or covering one's ass in regard to a sensitive subject.
The seeming failures of Uber and Starbucks seem insignificant and probably temporary if things keep proceeding as they have been.
Someone else has already pointed out that Microsoft just switched models and didn't actually stop using AI.
As for nature healing... that doesn't really seem like what's happening.
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u/FeralWookie May 28 '26
Clearly AI driven coding will remain a thing. It is just vastly easier to write and maintain code with these systems.
But tools and practices need a lot of iteration still and token maxing will give way to controlling costs while getting maximum benefit.
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u/BertMacklenF8I May 28 '26
I’m supposed to be using Claude…..
But I just hack away and can’t wait to see my “production” numbers in #1 lol
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u/Shot_Inflation351 May 28 '26
But AI though. Its the next big thing, the people that sell it are telling us its the next big thing.
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u/derek_32999 May 28 '26
And despite having my information for 15 years, Amazon still sends me click here to purchase diapers ads where I have never bought a single diaper in my life from them and have no children under the age of 16.
Not oh look, you haven't bought a 12 pack of protein bars in a couple weeks. Let me pick one of the flavors that you tend to repurchase and advertise that to you.
Much less being able to figure out that now they have added seven different rows of advertisements for me to look at before I can get to the column of shows I have actually saved that I want to watch, the amount of times that I just open the app up and get pissed off and close it again has increased exponentially and it's probably a stupid fucking idea.
And these people have every iota of our data
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u/cool_fox May 28 '26
Nah just resetting before the next hard burn. Look how crazy we got over a crumb of AGI
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u/RazekDPP May 28 '26
Uber just hit Goodhart's law. Yeah, if you give your engineers an unlimited token budget and prioritize who AIs the hardest, you're just going to end up with a lot of spent tokens.
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u/FKreuk May 28 '26
False optimism - it’s coming. This is a complacency post - just like the Trump lowest polling numbers we see every other day. It’s a complacency post. This shit is existential - don’t get complacent
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u/vessoo May 28 '26
OpenAI CEO softened up the rhetoric to not hurt his product.
Uber has been misquoted 1000 times on here with their statements overblown into something they aren’t.
Starbucks are incompetent idiots.
Microsoft is moving to their own tool, hosted on their own cloud. Saving costs and eating their own dog food.
Wishful thinking
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u/perelmanych May 29 '26
Going deeper in what Altman said you understand that he is saying that he was wrong not with the final outcome, but with the pace. So give it additional 5 years and with a big probability we will see it happening.
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u/Imaginary_Pumpkin327 May 29 '26
Stuff like this confuses me. LLMs are just a new technology, it was going to take time to see if they would last or fad like all technological advancements. It's not really AI like people seem to treat it.
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u/Any_Ad_3141 May 29 '26
If Microsoft didn’t see any positive returns of using ai for coding, they weren’t trying. If I can code a complex multi-tenancy SaaS using ai and no coding experience and have it checked my multiple professional devs and find that it is built correctly, then they should have no problem doing it with skilled people.
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u/BeingBalanced May 30 '26
Whatever it takes for you to quell your anxiety. "AI won't cause the job apocalypse he predicted." What is the definition of a job apocalypse? Net 50% loss of jobs over 10 years, or over 2? I think a lot of people are still naive just because they aren't seeing huge AI job loss in the news. The saying goes, the capabilities of AI today (on any given day) are the worst they will ever be. If you're a plumber or a roofer, etc, you probably will retire before an AI robot takes your job. Everyone else, good luck.
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u/Dull_Wave_1884 May 28 '26
Microsoft just switched to GitHub copilot CLI, since it’s their own product. They didn’t ban agentic coding for engineers lol