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The Real GenAI Issue
Last week I published a featherweight narrative about applying GenAI in a real-world context, to a tiny programming problem. Now I’m regretting that piece because I totally ignored the two central issues with AI: What it’s meant to do, and how much it really costs.
They’re doing this for exactly one reason: They think they can discard armies of employees and replace them with LLM services, at the cost of shipping shittier products. If you think we’re already suffering from egregious levels of inequality, what happens when a big chunk of the middle class suddenly becomes professionally superfluous? This at a time when we we blow past one atmospheric-carbon metric after another and David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost, that we need to hunker down and work on survival at the local level.
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