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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When the bosses say “good” they don’t mean that it is better in any way. What they mean is that it is “good” enough to replace a human worker.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it turns out that people who can’t code make terrible judges of how good ai is at coding

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The entire AI boom is management cumming all over their own faces at the thought of firing every human worker.

[–] mi@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

Not any different than offshoring devs. Saves money short-term, cost savings look great, managers get promotions, and they move on from that garbage code base that was created

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

don’t need to kink shame but yeah, pretty much… that and rich idiots who listen to excited grifters talking about how it’s the future… so fomo.
now in the future “ai free” is going to be a huge feature