Development in and Around Syracuse Discussion

[HtownOrange]

Such a small % of current AI tech is worthwhile. Most of it has truly useless slop and a way for greedy owners to fire workers.

Don't worry, the greedy owners will lose big when they either hire back those they let go or worse, hire in new "old guys" who know what they are doing but have to learn the corporate stuff. Wise management will ease into AI.

My boss was really big on AI until we started using it and it's not as advertised. It is good at some tasks, but not the major tasks and not until you build a data base which can mostly be trusted. It will be a long time before AI "carries its own weight" at least for us.

 

[Cusefan69]

The economics are way out of whack as well. A lot of tools are being subsidized by heavy investments. They’re trying to get people hooked and then will drastically increase costs. The true operating costs for some of these advanced AI coding tools are astronomical. It’s easy to claim they’re great at 200/month. When they start charging 80k a year, watch out. I personally don’t see with energy and compute costs the break even reaching rational levels any time soon.

The economics are way out of wack already. To make it worse there's no regulation or consumer protections. Like nothing. Businesses are taking a "ready, fire, aim" approach. It's honestly crazy.

 

[Oakland]

The economics are way out of wack already. To make it worse there's no regulation or consumer protections. Like nothing. Businesses are taking a "ready, fire, aim" approach. It's honestly crazy.

Nor protection for content creators, which AI has massively stolen from.

 

[bnoro]

The economics are way out of whack as well. A lot of tools are being subsidized by heavy investments. They’re trying to get people hooked and then will drastically increase costs. The true operating costs for some of these advanced AI coding tools are astronomical. It’s easy to claim they’re great at 200/month. When they start charging 80k a year, watch out. I personally don’t see with energy and compute costs the break even reaching rational levels any time soon.

Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini are out of whack economically. But the Palantirs of the world are not way out of whack when they're going towards the police/surveillance state you're starting to see more of every day.