Like, no shit the plagiarism machine that cannot create anything truly novel and can only regurgitate other people’s already existing work can’t replace professionals. I legitimately hope all of these companies go under.
Oh, and now you need a new fucking degree to learn how to ‘optimize your token usage with well crafted prompts the machine can understand’ otherwise you’ll burn through the energy Cleveland uses in a year, and end up costing the company millions.
Dumbest fucking bubble so far other than tulips and beanie babies
Oh, and now you need a new fucking degree to learn how to ‘optimize your token usage
In some companies, ‘optimize your token usage’ means using as many tokens as possible.
Indeed.
“AI is good” became “Good employees use AI” became “The more AI the better” became “The more tokens used the better the employee.”
What’s incredible is that none of these are self-evidently true premises, but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).
I feel like a variation of this exact article gets posted here every single day for the past year or so, and every time the same comments show up underneath. Nobody ever opens one of these threads and discovers a surprising or novel point of view.
I don’t understand why people spend their whole day talking about something they don’t like. It’s so bizarre to me.
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