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Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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What most people forget is that as a programmer/designer/etc, your job is to take what your client/customer tells you they want, listen to them, then try to give them what they ACTUALLY NEED, which is something that I think needs to be highlighted. Most people making requests to programmers, don't really even know what they want, or why they want it. They had some meeting and people decided that, 'Yes we need the program to do X!' without realizing that what they are asking for won't actually get them the result they want.
AI will be great at giving people exactly what they ask for...but that doesn't mean its what they actually needed...
Great points. Also:
Honestly, I'm not even sure about this. With hallucinations and increasingly complex prompts that it fails to handle, it's just as likely to regurgitate crap. I don't even know if AI will get to a better state before all of this dev-firing starts to backfire and sour most company's want to even touch AI for most development.
Humans talk with humans and do their best to come up with solutions. AI takes prompts and looks at historical human datasets to try and determine what a human would do. It's bound to run into something novel eventually, especially if there aren't more datasets to pull in because human-generated development solutions become scarce.
AI will never not-require a human to hand hold it. Because AI can never know what's true.
Because it doesn't "know" anything. It only has ratios of usage maps between connected entities we call "words".
Sure, you can run it and hope for the best. But that will fail sooner or later.
AI will. LLM won't.