Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

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Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched
Yeah so, they used the earth-burning slop generators, fired people over it, and now rehire cheaper to fix their hot mess (which sounds like one of the most futile and infuriating task one could do). Does not sound like as much of a win as the title would lead you to believe.
Speaking as a dev, I cannot wait for my job to be fixing inane machine slop code with half the pay, sounds like a real treat.
Give it time. Right now they don't want the balance sheet to show how expensive this experiment was, but cheap devs will only get them so far. Eventually they'll need to pay someone properly to fix what the AI and the monkeys broke.
That's a very fair point. I would counter-argue that given the direction that software (and design, and writing...) has taken, even before the machine generated slop, it is unclear to me whether or not there is/will be a real incentive to properly fix things. But I know I am naturally quite pessimistic, so I hope you are right.
Idk if Doctorow actually coined it but its already part of my vocabulary. People that clean up AI code are reverse-centaurs by this terminology. People that are not using tools but are subservient to them, forced to deal with the AIs failings.
https://observationalepidemiology.removed/2023/06/the-term-of-day-is-reverse-centaur.html?m=1
Or as Marx put it, humans are reduced to "conscious linkages" in the machine.
Eg an automation that can act on and through us, while we lack the ability to act upon it (speaking of the dominant tech + finance system workers are forced to slot themselves into). I'm paraphrasing Bifo poorly here.
How about double pay as a consultant fixing the code from ai that was fixed by junior coders when it should have been senior.
Paying 3 times is good value, right?
That's exactly what they did with the Hollywood writers and one reason why they went on strike, so it was a given corpos would try that in every other industry.