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I’m with you on the societal harm, but I also think that in many ways “this changes everything” is not out of line. It has enabled my team to approach and achieve a project that would have required 4x the staffing, at a minimum, 2 years ago. We are guiding the generation of more bug-free, lighter, more tested, more maintainable, better documented code at 1/4 the cost. We can digest information as a team at 10x the speed, and we can now put volumes of reference resources at our immediate, context aware lookup in ways that were impossible 3 years ago. It’s true that we are not just using the generic harness; our environment includes hundreds of custom tools , terabytes of reference material on rag, 8 custom local models (deployed trained and tuned by automation) hardware interfaces so that our models can interface directly to our prototypes and run tests, characterization, calibrations, firmware updates, and data dumps. Most of those tools were one shotted by the AI itself, for a dollar or two each. Whenever we need a new automation capability we just roll it out, and even if it needs hardware it’s usually ready in two or three days, if software only 10 minutes. (Our in house tools don’t have to be as well documented, well written, or resource efficient as our production systems, since humans never even use them, and when we need a new feature we usually just have our AI tooling agent swarm start from scratch using the original as a rough guide) So we are using AI as the core of our development and design process. If you’re not, you’re arguably “holding it wrong” IMHO. We’re working to make sure that the next industrial revolution is friendly to humans and useful to people, not just corporations. Or trying to. I’ve got kids, and I’m really concerned about the world they are inheriting, so I’m trying my best to make it a little less terrible if I can. |