Matt WilcoxFeb 12

In an era of tech companies & influencers pushing hard on #AI, I'm sitting here refreshing my knowledge on PHP programming.

Know the fundamentals and:

- enjoy your craft
- spend less money
- don't fear about when the AI providers alter their deals

You'd think that countries already grappling with the terrible impact of having outsourced their manufacturing - and how that is crippling their economy and national security now - might recognise a new outsourcing of fundamental capability. But no.

Show threadMatt WilcoxFeb 12

I'll re-iterate what I said yesterday:

- Once you outsource your manufacturing to other countries, you no longer retain the skills and workforce to spin it back up.
- Once you're reliant on outsourced work, the people you outsourced to have the power and get to dictate terms.

AI is *exactly* the same thing.

Once it's been relied on long enough that there are not enough juniors with the fundamental knowledge, few to no seniors left... that's the end of your ability to not rely on AI providers.

Show threadMatt WilcoxFeb 12

Which in-and-of-itself isn't "bad" if you're the company or country that owns the AI providers.

That'll change. And then you're fucked.

Show threadArthur van der HargFeb 12

@mattwilcox It’s also not bad if you’re one of the dinosaurs that does have senior skills. Man, we’re going to be in such demand to clean up the mess that AI will make.

Another consequence: once the junior->senior pipeline has dried up and the seniors have withdrawn, there will be no innovation for AI to leech off of. Innovation will stall and we’ll end up with a blotchy remixed goop of everything that has gone before. Blandness rule! Regression to the mean for all!

Show threadGabriel N
@ArtHarg @mattwilcox this open opportunities for societies that either don’t have the means to hire all the platforms needed to implement the AI stack, access to the currency, or the models don’t produce good results in their language.
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Show threadclewFeb 13

oh please let the small very non anglophone countries be all in on efficient reliable coding. individual universities. a group of friends. _translatio studii_, to be fancy.

as I understand it this has happened before in various disciplines - Lviv and topology? somewhere I forget and STP chemistry?

@wtrmt @ArtHarg @mattwilcox

Show threadGabriel NFeb 13

@clew @ArtHarg @mattwilcox I’m writing about other aspects of LLM as well, not only coding.

For instance, in my field of UX it is difficult to believe that the same personas and behaviors from the US population applies to Latinamerica or even Europe.

This happen in many other fields too.