And it’ll be used to suppress wages, because “you’re not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code.” That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.
That’s at least what was tried with movie writers.
With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.
Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.
Then twins walk into the airport and the system crashes.
And facial recognition has been known to fail with very dark skin so that’ll turn into a racial issue real quick.
Amazon of the “just walk out” shops powered by AI, that turned out to be s lot of Indian workers in the background.
Popular media doesn’t really investigate other ways of organizing society. It’s always the standard job, shop and money with only rare exceptions. It just swaps dollars with credits, uses hovercars instead of normal cars and calls it a day. Hell, they were shoveling coal into a reactor in Rebel Moon to power their space ship. I don’t expect that much from entertainment and can live with the black mirror doom porn. Maybe I give writing my own stuff another try, but I’m not a good writer.
Honestly I’m with black mirror. These days when a new tech appears, the mind immediately wonders how this will be abused it obstructed by other parties. That’s not the show’s fault but of what keeps happening in real life.
Black Mirrors shows the future, extrapolated from current systems and events. It’s not about new paradigms that might be possible.
Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.
I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.
It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:
“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”
“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”
“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”
“It says ‘working on project’.”
And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.
That’s the same psychological effect like 9.95 for a product versus 10.00 I guess.
And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.
how you never have anyone who can actually “manage” the AI workers.
You just use other AI to manage those worker AI. Experiments do show that having different instances of AI/LLM, each with an assigned role like manager, designer, coding or quality checks, perform pretty good working together. But that was with small stuff. I haven’t seen anyone wiling to test with complex products.
Rumour going around the tariffs would be delayed 90 days gave positive vibes. That rumour is already discredited though.
Yep. It’s giving some flashbacks to 2008 financial crisis. It’ll take some time, maybe years, before everything recovers. And that’s if Trump isn’t doing his best to make it worse.
A number of places have a time limit. It’s all you can eat in 3 hours. There can be rules that you have to eat what you take, and when you take entire plates but barely touch them, the restaurant gets a bit annoyed.
From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.
Where is the tech?
In China.
It’s Musk, so the new model is simply “the more money you have, the more you receive”