BlameThePeacock

It's already boosting productivity in many roles. That's just going to accelerate as the models get better, the processing gets cheaper, and (as you said) people learn to use it better.

AI will help with that too, it's going to be able to process entire codebases at a time pretty shortly here.

Given the visual capabilities now emerging, it can likely also do human-equivalent testing.

One of the biggest AI tricks we haven't started seeing much of yet in mainstream use is this kind of automated double-checking. Where it generates an answer, and then validates if the answer is valid before actually giving it to a human. Especially in coding bases, there really isn't anything stopping it from coming up with an answer compiling, running into an error, re-generating, and repeating until the code passes all unit tests or even potentially visual inspection.

The big limit on this right now is sheer processing cost and context lengths for the models. However, costs for this are dropping faster than any new tech we've seen, and it will likely be trivial in just a few years.

No need to defend it.

Either it's value is sufficient that businesses can make money by implementing it and it gets used, or it isn't.

I'm personally already using it to make money, so I suspect it's going to stick around.

You, along with most people, are still looking at automation wrong. It's never been about removing people entirely, even AI, it's about doing the same work with less cost.

If you can eliminate one programmers from your four person team by giving the other three AI to produce the same amount of work, congrats you've just automated one programming job.

Programming jobs aren't going anywhere, but either the amount of code produced is about to skyrocket, or the number of employed programmers is going to drop (or most likely both of those things).

That's also happening.

It's "taking the piss"

Amd it has nothing to do with urine consumption...

You can have an opinion that is grounded in basis of logic or fact.

In my opinion, the sunset appears pinky/purple. The basic foundation of this opinion (which others may disagree with due to slight variations in atmospheric conditions) is still rooted in fact. Someone else may think it looks red/purple. Both are basically correct, reasonably speaking.

Not even Urban Dictionary has a definition for "Too big to fail" that applies here, and it's got one about taking a shit.

VALID - (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent.

No, not all opinions are valid.

1. No they aren't. They're saving me multiple hours a week at my job. They're a productivity multiplier for many tasks even in their current early state.

2. If you don't think every single cellphone manufacturer isn't trying to jam a local model into their newest devices, I've got a bridge to sell you.

That's not what that term means...

The C rating can absolutely still be used when talking about recharging, it's just usually less relevant.