I started having this weird feeling about automation back in the day when people like Musk predicted that “driving” will soon become obsolete and that driverless cars will be everywhere “in a decade” and regular human-driving might even be banned as humans will be inferior in it. I think I heard this like 15 years ago, when I was much younger, but already back then I felt like this is a terrible take, because I always /loved/ driving (I even ride a motorcycle and have a car with manual shift stick) and an idea that someone will ban me from driving and that I will be forced into self-driving car felt utterly stupid and even dystopic to me, while many people seemed to celebrate this idea. Now I am getting the same feeling with programming and the hype around AI agents. There are bold (and bullshit) statements like “programming is solved” or “humans no longer need to struggle with reading and writing of code”, but did it ever occur to those AI enthusiasts that maybe there are people out there who actually ENJOY programming? People who love to read and write code? That it’s not “struggle” to them but actually something they enjoy doing? And that these people aren’t waiting to be “liberated” from the struggle of having well-paying job they enjoy so they can finally start doing something meaningful, like becoming a plumber? Why are all those AI people so detached from reality? submitted by /u/petr_bena
Originally posted by u/petr_bena on r/ArtificialInteligence