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"The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added."
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg#t=13s
I see the same push where I work and I cannot get a good answer to the most basic question:
"Why?"
"We want more people using AI."
"Why?"
". . ."
I usually ignore these kind of trends. Just meet any required deadlines etc but don't engage too much. The vast majority will just disappear.
Specifically as a software developer I cannot see a good outcome from engaging with this trend either. It's going to go one of two ways.
1: It pans out sooner rather than later that AI wasn't the panacea they thought it was, and it either is forgotten about, or becomes a set of realized tools we use, but don't rely on.
2: They believe it can replace us all, and so they replace us all with freshly graduated vibe "programmers" and I don't have a job anyway.
I don't really see an upside to engaging with this in any kind of long term plan.
My prediction is that it's just the latest buzzword on the pile of buzzwords and by 2028 a new one will pop up and the only time you hear "AI" will be in the line of "Hey, remember when everyone was talking about AI?"
Before AI it was "The Cloud". Before the cloud it was "Virtualization". They're saying all the same things about AI that they said about the cloud and virtualization...
I guess the real money is inventing the new buzzword that sales people can say will make your business faster, more agile, and more efficient. :)
I think it's a real shame because all three of those things you mention are useful. The problem is that once they become a buzzword, then everything needs to be done using that buzzword.
Cloud has been misused to hell and back, and I have no doubt AI will too.
"AI-powered cloud software virtualization"