ChatGPT lies then gaslights reporter with fake transcript

[Scribe]

I don't know, that shotgun approach to coding sounds a bit like against everything they teach about software engineering.

If software was held to the same standards as building a bridge, the world would be pretty different.

 

[trappedslider]

The more money those trades make, the better the economic case is for automating it. Some stuff will take longer than others, but I'd bet we see robot trash trucks within 15 years, which will flag some stops for a smaller human backup crew to come by as needed.

Well about trash pick up

New HARR-E robot lets you summon trash pickup like an Uber for your garbage

The HARR-E robot by Oshkosh Corp. eliminates garbage truck schedules with quiet, electric-powered autonomous trash collection controlled via smartphones.

www.foxnews.com

If you don't wish to open that link https://cyberguy.com/robot-tech/trash-robot-works-like-uber-garbage/amp/

There's already companies using 3D printing for whole houses, so that's slowly taking away one job. Then we got companies working on robot waiters, there goes another job.

This was from 2017 Intelligent Trash Pick-Up Robots Coming to an Office Near You | NVIDIA Technical Blog

I mean this was true, both of these. Learn a Trade was a valid option for a very very long time, right up till there was a 'labour shortage' and somehow we needed TFWs...

What's TFW?

 

[Scribe]

What's TFW?

Temporary Foreign Workers.

A nice legal way to slash wages in a given industry, like outsourcing (quick anyone want to guess where the tech jobs being slashed are going to?), but they bring the people to you!

 

[kermit4karate]

I don't know, that shotgun approach to coding sounds a bit like against everything they teach about software engineering.

Fresh grads out of computer science programs are probably among the least employable people in America right now. I don't think employers care what professors teach about software engineering anymore. They just want to get projects done well, quick and cheaply. A handful of coders using AI lets them have that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A handful of coders using AI lets them have that.

Management: "That handful feels pretty bloated to me ... Can we get that down to one guy in India?"

 

[trappedslider]

Temporary Foreign Workers.

A nice legal way to slash wages in a given industry, like outsourcing (quick anyone want to guess where the tech jobs being slashed are going to?), but they bring the people to you!

oh, i tried googling it but all i found that I thought you might mean was "Tuition Fee Waiver scheme” and i was confused

 

[Scribe]

Management: "That handful feels pretty bloated to me ... Can we get that down to one guy in India?"

Where's the laugh/cry reaction when I need one, because I've quite literally seen this happen, and we just lost another team to it.

Progress folks.

Robot Garbage Men? Robot Garbage Trucks? 3D Printed Homes?

Robot Care Home Workers? Robot Farmers?

To do what? Make money (how?) from and for whom?

We are not going to live in the world of Star Trek, wake up and read the news. We are not going to get our own Vineyard in France like Picard.

What are your kids going to be doing? Grandkids?

"Vibe Coding" for what and whom?

 

[kermit4karate]

Management: "That handful feels pretty bloated to me ... Can we get that down to one guy in India?"

True. The way things are headed here, I may actually be that guy in India before long.

 

[Blue]

I don't know, that shotgun approach to coding sounds a bit like against everything they teach about software engineering.

If it was actually a shotgun approach, but it's not. It only seems like a shotgun approach because it's doing what he'd be doing normally in a pair programming team, but much faster.

This is leveraging standard developer collaboration in a pretty straightforward way, which absolutely are things they teach you. It's just that one of the collaborators is an idiot savant.

 

[Blue]

The amount of resources it consumes makes it not worthy for the humanity at large if it is restricted to niche usages.

Common myth. Yes, training AIs uses a lot of compute cycles. Using already trained models on the other hand does not. I can pull up numbers again, but among my various professional responsibilities I used to manage both owned and co-lo datacenters for a global company. Power and cooling (which are two sides of the same thing) are old friends.

There's a meme going around about how each query is like pour out two bottles of water which is absolutely ridiculous, off by many orders of magnitude. The folks who repost it frequently generally get angry when I tell them you can use generative AI from your home computer, both text and images, if you have a not-bottom-of-the-line graphics card.