KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.
One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.
KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.
https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f
There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit
Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.
So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.
Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software
You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you
A joke I used to tell every coöp student and early-career person I interviewed:
“We only hire senior developers. The trick is, we hire them earlier in their careers.”
The same thing, without trying to be hip:
“Senior engineers are what you get when you hire a junior, give them interesting problems, surround them with people who know more than they do, and wait. That's it.”
https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/ai-didnt-kill-your-junior-pipeline-you-did
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AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the ladder up behind itself, hollowing out its seniors, and outsourcing its entire talent strategy to vendors that will eventually triple the price. If you don’t hire juniors now, don’t act surprised in five years when you’re surrounded by AI-generated code nobody understands and trying to buy senior engineers from a market everyone else forgot to replenish.
Theists look at the world and believe that such complexity and beauty can only come from some kind of intelligence.
Richard Dawkins looks at the words Claude produces and believes such complexity and beauty can only come from some kind of intelligence.
Dawkins is making exactly the same mistake as the theists he scorns.
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