> What I don't understand about this whole "get on board the AI train or get left behind" narrative, what advantage does an early adopter have for AI tools?
The ones pushing this narrative have either the following:
* Invested in AI companies (which they will never disclose until they IPO / acquired)
* Employees at AI companies that have stock options which they are effectively paid boosters around AGI nonsense.
* Mid-life crisis / paranoia that their identity as a programmer is being eroded and have to pivot to AI.
It is no different to the crypto web3 bubble of 2021. This time, it is even more obvious and now the grifters from crypto / tech are already "pivoting to ai". [0]
I'm not an AI booster, but I can't argue with Opus doing lots of legwork
> It is no different to the crypto web3 bubble of 2021
web3 didn't produce anything useful, just noise. I couldn't take a web3 stack to make an arbitrary app. with the PISS machine I can.
Do I worry about the future, fuck yeah I do. I think I'm up shit creek. I am lucky that I am good at describing in plain English what I want.
Web3 generated plenty of use if you're in on it. Pension funds, private investors, public companies, governments, gambling addicts, teenagers with more pocket money than sense, they've all moved billions into the pockets of Web3 grifters. You follow a tutorial on YouTube, spam the right places, maybe buy a few illegal ads, do a quick rugpull, and if you did your opsec right, you're now a millionaire. The major money sources have started to dry up (although the current American regime has been paid off by crypto companies so a Web3 revival might just happen).
With AI companies still selling services far below cost, it's only a matter of time before the money runs out and the true value of these tools will be tested.
> Pension funds, private investors, public companies
As someone who was at a large company that was dabbling in NFTs, there was no value apart from pure gambling. At the time that we were doing it, it was also too late, so it was just a jinormous
My issue with GenAI is the rampant copyright violation, and the effect it will have on the economy. Its also replacing all of the fun bits of the world that I inhabit.
At least with web3 it was mostly contained with in the BO infested basement that crypto bros inhabit. AI bollocks has infected half the world.
Comparing crypto and web3 scam with AI advancements is disingenuous at its best. I am a long time C and C++ systems programming engineer oriented at (sometimes novel) algorithmic design and high-performance large-scale systems operating at the scale of internet. I am specializing in low-level details that generally very small amount of engineers around the globe are familiar with. We can talk at the level of CPU microarchitectural details or memory bank conflicts or OS internals, and all the way up to the line of code we are writing. AI is the most transformative technology ever designed. I'd go that far and say that not even industrial revolution is going to be comparable to it. I have no stakes in AI.
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