Michael J. Nicholsondo i even want to work with ai?
https://michjnich.com/blog/2026-01-27-do-i-even-want-to-work-with-ai
decibyte> Where do those of us who enjoy the coding part of development go from here?
I am thinking about the same these days. The answer may be to somehow join forces and open slop free shops with like-minded people. I don't know if there's a market for that, though, as it seems all decision makers drank the Kool-Aid.
aggerI'm privileged enough to work at a small company where we get to choose our own tools. This means that nobody is asking me to use AI at all.
My guess is that companies that stick to making solid systems with no AI code in it will end up doing better on all measures and hence be more competitive in the end. AND, when the bubble bursts, they won't lose anything. I'm for sure not going into "vibe coding", but those that are may be in for a rough awakening when it all comes tumbling down as according to https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
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@agger @decibyte I listen to most of Ed's suff on his podcast :) I'm 99% sure there's a crash coming, and hopefully sooner rather than later ... but AI is here to stay. My suspicion is it may be more local models doing things once it's all calmed down, because the whole claude/GPT hosted stuff just doesn't seem to be financially self-sustaining, but we'll see, and I don't think I'm clever enough to make predictions on what's left over after the crash :)
I do believe some good can come of locally running, single-GPU and specially trained LLMs doing very specialized tasks. Translation is one of the things they're actually good at. What I don't believe is that the ChatGPTs and Co-Pilots of this world will ever become truly useful, let alone profitable. So I agree 🙂
@agger @decibyte There's one thing I don't believe LLM activities will ever be, and that is 100% reproducible. This is a feature, not a bug, and to me, it makes them unreliable for a whole lot of use cases.
But yes, they definitely have their uses. Many of which are related to fraud, scams, harassment, propaganda and other illegal activities. Along with a few genuinely useful cases too of course :)
@agger @decibyte Actually, what I'd like to try at some point in the future (personal energy permitting) is to set up a home automation JARVIS kind of thing, but just on my home net, with some speech recognition and then integrated with other smart stuff (carefully selected to be stuff that doesn't insist on phoning home and constantly being connected to work - if that even exists any more ...). So home alexa without all the spying on me :) I feel that should be possible ...