It's good to have a discussion here so I am ready for all the dumb peer chats I am going to have in the next few weeks with people who don't use these tools but rely on Linkedin wisdom.
"Use AI" sounds like "programmers use a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations" - without the details or context how they use it, what tools and for what tasks - doesn't mean anything and also sounds foolish, sorry.
100% this, Figma is more than just a "design" tool. Same as jira is not just a crud app for tasks. It is integrated in pipelines, people's expertise, CVs and CTO's minds. And to bet on AI company building a competitor to Figma - good luck with that. Just a pilot project for PR, nothing more than that. Sora 2.0 basically.
As if designers spend most of their time actually "designing". Same flaw of thinking with programmers and AI replacing their jobs. As if the main problem (and a major time waster) is actually programming and not dealing with a million of other things.
You replace designers with who? Who is the magic person (who is not a designer) doing the work? CEO? CTO? I heard these stories when Midjourney started and everyone on gamedev channels where screaming how artists/graphic designers would be irrelevant... I was always puzzlde by who is going to be doing their work if they are gone...
Oh no, reading the code, so before AI era noone was reading the code? Unless you have automated checks done by AI to red flag AI submissions... what else can you do? Ask 100 times not to submit AI code or click a checkbox or add this really serious terms and conditions paragraph?
tbh if the change works and the code is ok who cares what was used to build it? ChatGPT or C++ code generator. If the code looks crap - reject PR, why drama?
Wny does it even matter, there was no "Breakthrough" in the code, or in the whitepaper, it's a nice engineering combination of technologies, based on pre-existing attempts, nothing new - working software, admirable motivation - the fact that it became a creepy scamming industry is not his/her fault or achievment, I am not even sure why it matters these days. If he/she is still alive and not touching these wallets - I can only bow to the person.
Yeah I am not sure many people gonna hang around this - I am not sure I wanna do this role. I like building and delivering and ai is great help but I will not be happy supervising agents, there are better jobs. Unless the money is not to be refused
Well if the management want to get more AI, they gonna get more AI, and no, I am not gonna be running around making sure their dreams work smoothly under my human supervision - I am gonna let it go all the way they want. In the mean time I focus on improving my skills.
>> Do you see any reason that progress will stop abruptly here?
I do. When someone thinks they are building next generation super software for 20$ a month using AI, they conveniently forget someone else is paying the remaining 19,980$ for them for compute power and electricity.
there is software and software. lots of enterprise software gets re-written every 2-5 years, some projects are in rubbish bin as soon as finished (if finished)
Sure, but it's nothing new - CMSes, website builders, no-code platforms, code generators - AI on top of a website builder can really help and it does help. But not building operating systems or Word from scratch for every person or company - this is just nuts.