[willahmad]

I wonder about the implications of this tech.

State of the things with doom scrolling was already bad, add to it layoffs and replacing people with AI (just admit it, interns are struggling competing with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex)

What's coming next? Bunch of people, with lots of free time watching non-sense AI generated content?

I am genuinely curious, because I was and still excited about AI, until I saw how doom scrolling is getting worse

[quantumHazer]

> just admit it, interns are struggling competing with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex

They are not. This is false, zirp ended, this is the problem. Not LLMs.

[willahmad]

Of course primary cause could be ZIRP, but AI definitely accelerated the problem.

Interns at big tech maybe impacted less, because their systems are so complex, but when I look at job boards or talk with engineers I see they're mentioning interns less, AI assisted coding more.

Bar for the interns is higher now, why do I need 3 interns to polish the product if I can complete 70% of the job with AI and hire 1 intern to fix other parts

[rhubarbtree]

I know from a dev bootcamp that you are certainly wrong.

However, I also think ai coding is hyped way beyond its capability.

[quantumHazer]

> dev bootcamp

i will not comment any further

[rhubarbtree]

Not sure your reply warrants any further expenditure of effort on my part, but for the benefit of other readers:

The bootcamp (actually, evening classes in coding run in cooperation with the public sector) regularly placed graduates with employers.

They’ve seen a big hit in this since AI, and companies have explicitly cited the fact that AI can complete the same tasks that these junior devs used to perform.

[m3kw9]

I’m wondering how they really prevent uploads of other peoples faces if they take a clip of a video of another person. I’m sure Apple didn’t open up the 3d Face ID scanning to them to verify

[bopbopbop7]

Try to provide some evidence first that AI is replacing people and that interns are struggling to compete with an LLM.

[pixl97]

>What's coming next? Bunch of people, with lots of free time watching non-sense AI generated content?

Wasn't this always the outcome of the post labor economy?

For this discussion lets just say that AI+Robots could replace most human labor and thinking. What do people do? Entertainment is going to be the number one time consumer.

[anshumankmr]

Paid by what?

[akomtu]

Next comes SoraT.