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.
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.
@mattwilcox i agree, and i also remind myself that we have lower ability for calligraphy because people write with keyboards, and we don't have to memorize all roads because we have maps. Some reliance on technology isn't that bad. So, I wonder how we can make the AI transformation healthy.
PS: I also continue working on my coding abilities, because it's a great skill to have and a nice hobby, even when AI does most of the production work.
@fallbackerik 100%
It’s not that AI isn’t useful. It certainly is. But it is also very over-sold and irresponsibly used atm, has a ton of issues on multiple levels, and given the current trajectory in software development in particular - is likely to become an existential nation-scale problem just like outsourcing manufacturing became.
AI is a tool. Tools are just things. But how we use them? That’s the rub. “Efficiency” is short term. If it puts limits on your control of production? Danger.
Matt Wilcox
Erik Play2Learn