Posted on 09/19/2025 1:31:40 AM PDT by RandFan
@dotkrueger
Get ready to lose your job
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I find most AI art to be incredibly plastic and unappealing. Also, don’t get me started on AI vocalization with all the mispronounced words. I saw a youtube video on The Who and the AI kept pronouncing the guitar player’s name as Town Shend. After a few minutes, I had to turn it off.
LOL
That suggestion was borderline insulting. 😂
I'm quite sure I tried ChatGPT-5 well before you did.
My conclusion was that it was slower and less capable. It most certainly was an upgrade... for Sam Altman. I'm sure it consumes less by way of resources, but it is a definite downgrade.
Try not to lose your job or get laid off. If you do AI will decide who gets to even get an interview. Unless you know someone that can help you get looked at you are going to be bypassed likely.
Several people we know, long term jobs, degrees, go to work faithfully, get laid off - off some months now. You can’t just go apply someplace yourself; times have changed.
It’s an over-reaction imho.
For instance, at our company we develop “safety critical hardware and software systems”. Will there be “perfect requirements” provided by anyone, including AI? Nope.
Can AI assist with developing requirements and architecture? YES!
In a court of law, will I be held liable (in the event of death/injury due to failure of the system) if we “blindly trusted (copy/paste) the output of AI” and didn’t have human beings review the content? ABSOLUTELY! Our review processes do not change due to the use of AI vs. a person creating all the content.
I’d argue the same is true for many of these professions. It’s a tool - but even if for legal liability’s sake, you must still have humans educated enough to verify the validity of its output.
Might it reduce costs as it enables fewer people to do more work? I believe so. That said, in some professions, like the medical industry, the scarcity of professionals is what makes it so expensive. So, if the pool we have scales further, maybe costs might come down due to more available bandwidth. Doctors spend more time verifying AI analysis & conclusions, vs. doing all of it themselves.
Same for lawyers? Teachers?
“Someone will have to be innovators”
True innovators are always a very small part of the population—maybe one percent or so.
There can be a lot of unemployment without touching any innovators.
The end of public education is going to be a great blessing for everyone—except the teacher’s unions.
But keep importing H-1B visa servants. 100000 per year.
They should pass a law making it illegal to hire Americans and get it overwith.
Free Traitors tell us labor is too expensive so it everything if robotic shouldn’t cars cost half?
This is why there are world wars, to get rid of excess labor.
Funny how Free Traitors never worried about that when it was blue collar jobs disappearing.
Butlerian Jihad.
A lot of people are getting rich thanks to AI. We all need to get in on the action and find the new opportunities. Don’t be a sucker.
Sound advice as always
I like the model it does OK for me and is $20 😂
I routinely flip back to 4o. I wish they still had 4o Mini. Was blazingly fast with little loss of fidelity.
You, sir or ma’am, have the tone wherein I can tell you’ve been hands-on in AI for a while.
So have I.
It is not a panacea. It is a bit of an accelerator, though.
We senior devs and team leads aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
One thing is for sure this wont last @ 20 bucks.
They’re losing money
No reason to leave them out.
Will AI doctors sit in their office, waiting for their patients to come for their appointments? Will there be a shortage of AI doctors so we still have to schedule months in advance?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I found AI like chat GPT to be very useful for doing some of the more menial programming work.
For example I once had it write me code to sort a certain list that had a specific class definition class definition Based on data within various member variables within that class definition.
Nothing too difficult but I spoke to it pretty much just like I just described it here and it kicked out code in about 5 Seconds. Very good code that I only had to modify slightly to actually use.
Then I had it add some error testing and code for unit test testing and generate the output for 100% code coverage test.
Not very difficult it would have taken me half a day to do it myself but it did it for me in like 10 minutes.
That’s the kind of stuff it’s really useful for right now.
So instead of spending half a day writing the code for that, I got to focus on the big picture Mission Control software that this was just a tiny part of.
I can even feed it vendor proposals in PDF or PPT format and have it perform summaries of each, then do a comparative analysis of all three together after I input specific decision criteria such as:
- Risk Aversiveness
- Green Energy Power 100%
- Cost Consciousness
And other decision criteria based on Bank preferences.
Even then, it's doing a pretty solid job coming up with the same results I did, except for CoPilot w/ChatGPT did it in under 15 minutes (after putting in preferences, biases to use, etc..) whereas it took me three days to develop the decision matrix, go through each proposal, map them to the decision matrix and determine the results mysef.
All in all, I'd say that was a pretty good test and the results were very similar to mine.
Consider ChatGPT like an "intern" who does the research and work for you, but you must always validate the results it came up with to be certain.
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