Why is this alternative better?

What about the threat of unemployment due to not meeting AI usage/output metrics? I've personally found it has effectively coerced me to stop trying to understand pretty much anything, and instead just send out whatever passes basic test to "keep up".

Unless you want to just play bad-faith word games and say that "technically it's still not stopping you" in which case yeah man you got me good job buddy.

Except the entire value proposition of these tools is that there is no skill or mastery to be built.

The entire slop factory workflow, or sorry I mean "AI-native" workflow is:

"Woah, I cajoled a chatbot into building something I don't understand at all, I'm so good at my job!"

It's the participation trophy of building. Something else builds it, I take credit for it despite not understanding much about about it. There's no compounding return on my effort. No lessons learned. No understanding built. No insights gleaned for possible future innovation. No differentiation. Just mind-numbingly screaming into a void until the slot machine shits out some slop amalgam that seems "good enough", and then I do it all again the next day.

If that's the game, count me out. It's nice that others apparently enjoy it, I guess. But to think there's any sort of mastery here is delusion. The only requirement to be "successful" with these tools is to stop giving a shit and surrender to it.

I don't want my life savings tightly coupled to a young and hyped up technology which is currently being wielded in the most antisocial way possible.

Simple as.

But the AI hypebeasts are incapable of differentiating that from an anti-AI stance.

Do you have infinite money?

I guess people can dress it up as business savvy and market timing or whatever pretentious lingo they want to make themselves feel better about it, but it's really just scamming by another name.

But we're in the Scam/Grift Economy now anyway so I guess everyone is trying to get theirs while they still can, and I guess that's what we're seeing.

This industry has lost its collective mind with this hype cycle. I'm not even against the technology, but this is all just shockingly reckless.

I didn't necessarily know everything about my code at all times before.

And that justifies my gleeful embrace of not knowing anything about my code now.

Anakin stare

"Tee hee he just made a silly oopsie poopsie just like me when I take down prod for a few minutes"

Good reminder for the rest of us to enjoy the journey once in a while.

Chronic over-promise, underdelivery.

Where was the nearly 3T of fraud he said he'd uncover in the US government, again? Was that a clear win for the country?

But hey at least he's effective at getting people to give him money, I guess, which is an indistinguishable "skill" from that of someone who is able to convince people to buy an online course on how to make money online.

He just does it at a bigger scale so people are quick to suck him off. How we are still falling into the "money = smart/competent" trap in <> is beyond me.

Are Google PMs really just saying "let's take existing product and shove AI into it"?

What the fuck are we even doing anymore?