General Discussion

We elected Trump twice and even when Biden beat him, it wasn't the blow out it should've been, if we were a decent people. There are too many of us that are shameless.

AI coding tools don't need to be as accurate as calculators.... at least not for run of the mill business applications, which is my realm. The models just need to be broken down into separate models for separate types of system architecture needs. I was tasked with researching some of this stuff myself. I can take a block of server side C# code that I wrote and paste it into something like Co-Pilot and tell it to generate the client side JavaScript equivalent of it and it does a pretty impressive job. As a coder, I can look at what it generated and immediately see where it needed a few minor tweaks. If someone decides to create new models trained on specific coding tasks and builds more sophisticated user interfaces around those models that goes beyond learning to write prompts, its only going to get "better" (and by better, I mean worse for my job security). GenAI models are really good at reproducing finite, logical patterns already.

I also work with a data scientist who trains models on our client data to formulate predictions and such... and thats actually an ethical use, nothing in those datasets is stolen. Our clients are paying extra for us to take their data and do things like that.

I'm only bringing that part up to say, I work with experts on this stuff. I know a lot about it. I know how much clients like what some of it can do for them. They are not going to be shamed into not wanting it. Thats like saying big corporations will eventually become ashamed of making more money than they should off their products. Die hard, unfettered capitalists are not going to become ashamed of anything that saves them a dime.

This is why I'm scared for my career, I've seen too much of this first hand. And at the same time, I'm pretty much forced to interact with it myself because its becoming part of my job.

Eventually you will probably have some showdown on the copyright infringement aspects of it. And that will likely create a whole new industry where people put together datasets in a legal way and sell them to GenAI hosts for retraining their models on in a legal way. If that happens, and I think it will, it will only strengthen the argument for its continued existence.

Now, as I said, the bubble around it is going to burst just like it did for the dotcom's. But plenty of dotcom's survived the burst and now pretty much rule the world (Amazon, Ebay, Google, etc).