• Optional@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The core takeaway is that except for a few instances the executives still don’t understand jack shit and when a smooth talking huckster dazzles them with ridiculous magic to make them super rich they all follow them to the poke.

    Judges and Executives understand nothing about computers in 2025. that’s the fucked up part. AI is just how we’re doing it this time.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Companies that are incompetently led will fail and companies that integrate new AI tools in a productive and useful manner will succeed.

      Worrying about AI replacing coders is pointless. Anyone who writes code for a living understands the limitations that these models have. It isn’t going to replace humans for quite a long time.

      Language models are hitting some hard limitations and were unlikely to see improvements continue at the same pace.

      Transformers, Mixture of Experts and some training efficiency breakthroughs all happened around the same time which gave the impression of an AI explosion but the current models are essentially taking advantage of everything and we’re seeing pretty strong diminishing returns on larger training sets.

      So language models, absent a new revolutionary breakthrough, are largely as good as they’re going to get for the foreseeable future.

      They’re not replacing software engineers, at best they’re slightly more advanced syntax checkers/LSPs. They may help with junior developer level tasks like refactoring or debugging… but they’re not designing applications.