cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43533515
When will we simply accept that it’s a bubble and move on, instead of pouring a relentless amount of resources into it.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43533515
When will we simply accept that it’s a bubble and move on, instead of pouring a relentless amount of resources into it.
Yeah. Obviously. There’s a phrase which gets misinterpreted very often. “The customer is always right”. People think it means if you go into Walmart, and try to buy a TV, and you say 480p is a higher resolution than 1080p, you’d be right. Because you’re the customer, and you’re always right, even if you’re wrong.
That’s not what it means. It means if you go to a store and ask to buy a 480p TV, and they don’t have it, they lost a sale. The phrase really should be “The customer always dictates the market”.
So when we look at AI, you ask “Ok, who’s using it?” and the answer is “Everybody hates it. Everybody resents it. But we’re being forced to use it, so it gets ‘used’ in a sense, but not willingly.”
So if you have a product that nobody wants, and everybody is openly hostile towards, but you just keep forcing it down peoples throats, then yeah, you lose sales. Just ask Microsoft how Windows 11 adoption rates have been. I guess by definition, I am now a linux user. I still hate it. I have no idea how to do anything besides open a web browser. I wish I could do more with my own PC. It’s not linux that’s preventing me, it’s my own inability to understand things. By all means, I SHOULD be a windows user…but I’ll be damned if Microsoft is going to tell me HOW I can use my own PC that I paid for. Linux isn’t restricting me, but I still don’t know how to do it. I’m the example of why Windows 11 is failing, and it’s all because of policy regarding AI.
If nobody wants your product, it will not contribute to growth. Go try standing on the sidewalk and selling a fat mans used gym socks for $200. Nobody will buy it. Nobody wants that. So it would be kind of weird if the 11 o clock news was surprised to report that the fat mans used gym sock market was not profitable. Yet that’s where we seem to be with AI right now. Media outlets are continually reporting that AI is not doing well, and every time they report it, they seem surprised.
Literally all it would take for me to go back to Windows would be for them to release “WindowsXP12” It’s Windows 12, which is just Windows XP but with quality of life improvements, such as not limiting file sizes to 4GB, and allowing more than 16GB of ram, and being able to read more than 2TB hard drives. No AI, just WindowsXP exactly as you remember it, just built for the modern world. But Microsoft is too stubborn to do that. They’ve been baking in anti-customer features since Windows 7. So I guess by default I’m a linux user now.
I also feel like AI got used as an excuse to fire without spooking the market. As interest rates rose and remote work opportunities opened up the world labor market, saying that your company was using AI to fill developer jobs gave tech companies the smokescreen to fire senior devs in high CoL areas by saying “fUtUrE!” instead of admitting they were cutting development to the bone.
After the layoffs, since the tools are in place to develop from everywhere, why maintain Bay Area salaries?
It did.
Thats not even a conspiracy theory, that’s just math.
The consumer economy is contracting, the vast majority of businesses report somewhere between negative to 0 to minimal productivity gains from AI… a number of firms that cut people for AI, are already trying to hire people back.
Yeah. Its mostly a cover story… because we are starting to slope down more rapidly into the Second Great Depression.
Because all those assholes want everyone in the office.
Might be that they’re finally realizing you don’t need to be in-office, but to them that means you really should be in Punjab.
Yeah. Remote work means you can work anywhere.
This might help. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev
!linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev
What does it mean that my link has the extra dbzer0 portion in it? I grabbed this out of my Eternity client’s subscription area, I think.
Ah nothing, this link should work across any client though and prevents many of them from opening up a browser rather than redirecting to the community directly. You didn’t really do anything wrong, just that some people might have issues using your link because of the way Lemmy works so I just provided an alternative link!
The direct link avoids using dbzer0 as a proxy for federated content. Saves your instance a bit of unnecessary load. Eternity is weird about that, I wish there was an option in settings or something.