It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.

It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.

Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.

What a silly future they want for us.

Deep sea cable connecting the states to India, South Africa, and Brazil. Meta has also spent billions on improving latency, which is one of remote robotics biggest hurdle.

I haven't harped on my "Meta is pivoting to the cloud" rant in a while lol but, it sounds an awful lot like Meta found a way to outsource our country's service industry.

We might get— Applebees: Now Powered by Meta Robotics 🤮

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-undersea-cables-internet-connectivity-india/

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this thing I read (can't remember who wrote it ahhhh) about how AI will kill the outsourced coding market. And how project managers essentially assume that role.

As someone who considers themselves a project manager first, coder second, this is where AI affects my business the most.

Clients expect projects to be completed faster and cheaper.

After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.

But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.

This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).

The irony of AI is that it makes building things more accessible to the layperson but it comes at a time when technical literacy is at an all-time low.

A former colleague hit me up six months ago very excited about creating an app using AI. Every once in a while, I'll text him and ask him where he is with the project. And slowly, I've watched that excitement turned into confusion and frustration.

He simply doesn't have the knowledge to move this project past the sandbox

Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.

I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.

They barely have brand loyalty.