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But if you need to pay brilliant people 500k base salary to use AI well then what is a smaller company supposed to do?

There aren't going to be enough experts to go around. They'll start demanding millions in salary and all of a sudden the advantage is gone.

Often it's that the internal platform isn't very good and not worth the trouble.

Same reason they don't use any platform. It's not as good as you think.

If you frame the conversation in those terms, they will.

One of the problems is that by default, they'll avoid changing data structures or architecture that is already written down.

Like a junior dev, they're correctly cautious about breaking things, so they prefer to write more code instead.

I think there are sadly a huge number of people who don't care about art or creativity at all. They like the idea of AI and sterility and everything else. Increasingly these people dominate the economy because they are the most willing to hurt their fellow man in pursuit of status.

These people don't go to fairs, it's true, but they do bulldoze the fairgrounds to build a data center. To build a semblance of consent, they need to host brainwashing events like "fairs" and so on where they can propagandize and threaten citizens. They can't hire a local artist to advertise it, because literally none of them will do it. AI comes in handy when you're absolute evil.

HN may as well be /r/accelerate

The AI obsession is ruining every conversation.

All the "LOL you wouldn't steal a car???" posts in this thread miss the point entirely.

AI is cannibalizing information. It is literally destroying information and impoverishing those who would produce more of it.

At a long time scale, AI dominance is apocalyptic even if it never intentionally hurts anyone.

Regulation can mean all sorts of things, including declaring the models themselves illegal.

Tech bros have a hard time understanding this, but a state can and will enforce its laws, even seemingly absurd one, if it wants to.

Superior just means "above" or "on top of". Natural animals don't communicate in logical terms, even if their dna is a logical sequence.

Plenty of catastrophes are available under pure logic as well. The only catastrophes they prevent are accidental ones.

Natural language can build civilization around "do unto others as you would have done unto you".

Logic cannot encode morality, precisely because it is unambiguous.

Yes. Ambiguity is a feature, not a bug.

No offense, but "natural language sucks" is the refuge of the illiterate logician.

Complex language is clearly superior in nature. We're now finding out that that is true in computation as well.

that doesn't actually happen though. If you fired every dev with sloppy code you wouldn't be left with much.

no it's just a "good times creates weak men" sort of thing.

Once you're back to hard times you'll have a whole crop of reasonable people willing to wrestle power at the cost of their lives.

tbf many human devs I've worked with don't think about n+1 and similar issues and need constant reminders.

overall software quality seems largely unchanged