I think the premise of the article is interesting, but it's a bit mis-leading to start it out by quoting "last year half of the internet was AI-generated" and the source doesn't actually say that at all, just that there has been a huge uptick in AI crawlers.
In reality, I think it's more likely that the lay-offs will be when the marginal rate of growth slows down. Once executives see that growth doesn't change much when hiring, they stop hiring, and once they see that growth doesn't decrease much when firing, they start firing.
There's still an opportunity for engineers to eat their bosses lunch and just start their own company. It's never been easier to start a lower cost competitor.
Employment isn't a social law of nature: it's a transaction of money for "units of work", just like the business might have with other vendors. Governments should be making it easier to become a vendor.
They are being selected for their survival potential, though. Any current version of LLMs are the winners of the training selection process. They will "die" once new generations are trained that supercede them.
> The PMs writing features? That’s the welding. And there’s nothing wrong with it. But it only works if the bridge is designed right.
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> The profession is splitting. The mistake would be pretending it isn’t happening
I'm tired of reading AI blog-posts. Write in your own words, please.
If the monopolist chef is deliberately adding addictive ingredients that causes health problems, I think, yes, they're the ones to punish or address the problem with.
I had a startup some years ago and took angel funding from family. When we were later running out of cash and had to raise professional money to stay alive, the pressure of the expectations I thought my family had because I was on the verge of losing their money caused me debilitating panic attacks.
I still feel the effects 6 years later, but have learned to cope whenever I feel the pressure begin to build. But man did it scar.
OP if there is any advice I can give, it's that you should have a chat with your investor friends about and make sure you feel like you can always walk away.
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:
"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.
When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.
The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.
I find it so annoying on Spotify when my daughter wants to listen to kids music, I have to navigate 5 clicks and scrolls to turn on privacy so her listening doesn't pollute my recommendations.
Nice interactivity, but this is taken straight from the Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Literally all the content here is an interactive version of chapter 3.