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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 22:43:49 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Kevin Beaumont

   ❝In other words, AI is creating new work that cancels out some potential time savings from using AI in the first place.❞

   via @GossiTheDog:
   https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114420385015829907

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 01:30:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I will at this time repeat my analogy that AI vendors have convinced a whole bunch of executives / managers that cardboard toilets are ready for prime time, and now or soon — perhaps after a few hype-driven plumber layoffs — there’s not only extra work for plumbers, but also extra work for people who can repair damage to ceilings and floors.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 01:42:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     In this analogy, the sewage-stained ceiling and floors are:

     - lost institutional knowledge
     - damaged morale
     - garbled / poisoned internal data
     - lost customer trust, which is bitterly difficult to regain
     - code that must be drastically rewritten, maybe from scratch
     - etc

     …and if the BS goes on long enough:

     - loss of skill development; a clog in the professional pipelines that gradually grow juniors into exports
     - erosion of the very human-made training data that LLMs rely upon

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 01:43:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     What’s the end game here, you ask?

     The end game is that all the AI vendors’ early investors cash out and leave the gullible holding the bag. That’s it.

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     EndlessMason (endlessmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:39:30 JST EndlessMason

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