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I guarantee 5-10 years from now, those same companies will be complaining that development is not happening fast enough, more developers will burn out, and this cycle will repeat again. Thus starts the new search for speeding things up yet again. The problem is that capitalism demands infinite growth and that translates to speed. So nothing will ever truly be fast enough to meet the demands of people that need their 5th vacation home.
I’m a programmer and I’ve been telling people this for a while now. You will never be fast enough. That’s not a jab or a criticism; it’s the reality of work demands under capitalism. It’s why when a manager constantly says we need to be faster, I start job searching again.
We are witnessing the stage of capitalism where innovation has peaked. That’s why we see ads permeating everything; why live services are in so many games; why data hoarding and required account login is in everything; why we have a seemingly never ending stream of remakes and reboots no one asked for. Capitalism has made it so that there is no time or space for truly new ideas and they instead milk what they can from what already exists.
Innovation has peaked? Didn't we just get AI? Is that not one of the largest innovations to occur in recent time?
It’s constantly proving to be a massive disappointment, at least in the hands of capitalists.
You haven't used Cursor yet, have you?
Never used that one but I use Copilot daily and have tried similar. Copilot has gotten considerably worse since I started using it (I think because they mixed in ChatGPT results), so I rely on it very little.
These tools make people too dependent upon them, similar to how a lot of us can no longer navigate without map software. It feels like I’m slowly building my own coffin the more I use AI to write my code.
Aside from that, when you start to dig into the energy and water consumption required to run these things, it’s kind of insane.
Yeah but that's only because business people usually have zero knowledge of science or technology in any way. They know as much about what AI actually does as your grandma. It's going to take years before AI is ready to start really replacing workers in anything. But that doesn't stop the hype train from trying to convince everyone its right around the corner.
But the point is that it shouldn’t replace people. I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years and there’s nothing that will make me want to work with tools I know can eventually replace me or someone else. Aside from that, the energy usage is getting batshit insane while we’re all in the midst of a climate crisis.