https://gizmodo.com/klarna-hiring-back-human-help-after-goin...
You fire the copywriter, but you still have to pay for the advertising (google clicks, tv spots etc).
So if you have $100,000 ad campaign and you use AI instead of paying $10,000 to the copywriter, you probably have a higher chance of wasting the $90,0000 ad spend.
So it comes down to, the AI probably makes a skilled copywriter better. But you can't get rid of him
-- James Gosling - May 2025
Correct. This is how most bubbles are kept up as they are all exposed in the hype cycle.
You will not hear about the mistakes [0] [1] [2] it makes when AI gets it wrong or hallucinates and all the AI boosters can do will be "it only gets better" and promise that we will soon be operating airplanes without humans. [3]
Surely you would feel safer if you or your family boarded a plane that was fully operated by ChatGPT, because it is somewhat closer to "AGI"?
I really don't think so.
[0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/openai-explains-why-chatgp...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/668315/anthropic-claude-legal-...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/xai-blames-groks-obsession...
[3] https://www.flyingmag.com/replacing-airline-pilots-with-ai/
"I will be indispensable forever"
- random people on HNYet another bookmark for my "check after the AI bubble pops" folder.
Businesses will wake up when it is too late and the damage to the engineering side of their products is already done. Or perhaps won't wake up at all, and somehow (to their management levels) inexplicably fail.
Developers now spend excessive time crafting prompts and managing AI generated pull requests :-) tasks that a simple email to a junior coder could have handled efficiently. We need a study that shows the lost productivity.
When CEOs aggressively promote such tech solutions, it signals we're deep into bubble territory:
“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding.”
"There will be no programmers in five years" “I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software.” “Coding is dead.” "This is the year (2025) that AI becomes better than humans at programming for ever..." “Probably in 2025, we at Meta are going to have an AI that can effectively function as a mid-level engineer that can write code." "90% of code will be written by AI in the next 3 months"