The "Jobless Boom" Is Here

For the most part Throbber AI seems like a microwave. It's got some cool stuff and it's convenient in a pinch and it doesn't seem to make many things better in life, just faster, and shittier and will lead to the shitification and slopification of most stuff. I feel dumber every time I use it. Also a lot of what is being sold to the average person (who are most voters) is Google reframed.

My question is also why? Why do you want a robot doctor, or worse, surgeon? If we were short on people I guess. About all I want is a truly driverless car so I can get drunk and drive or not have to smell or talk to an Uber driver. The people behind this shit also have a kickass model of making things cheaper then getting people hooked and skyrocketing the price, like Uber.
 
haie said:
"bUild me a new infrastructure for my national banking company in Rust. Make it completely secure and soc2 compliant. Spin up my entire container system and make it cross regionally redundant with zero downtime. No miskakes"
Click to expand...
Back in the day, Throbber sold enterprise systems. Most were running on legacy systems. At the time, any time, anywhere, any device was just an idea.

The gatekeepers were the IT guys. Job security. Same as it ever was.

Made a shit ton of money showing CEOs and CFOs how headcount could be 'redeployed'.

CEOs and CFOs love redeployment.
 
Yeah it's been a long time since you needed an IT team though. You'd probably shit your pants to see a DB as a service and then learn that some people still want to pay someone 180-200k to tweak indexes on ec2 or even run maintenance on on premise.

Anyways.. yesterday we closed a client that is a fucking household name..mentioned on this site a bunch..and they clearly have the money and means to try and used AI to build their own thing. I'll stop talking when I stop making more money.
 
You pay saas for liability. Also you should be working on your core thing not fucking around with trying to make tools not related to your domain. I’ve been having a blast though cooking up v2 of basically everything at the company. Starting to dabble with all the agents for sales and marketing stuff. New chick to run that part starts Monday. My hypothesis is we can both do brand building for a fraction of the cost as our competitors and double the number of “business conversations” (aka real pipeline stuff not bullshit) that sales people have.
 
PurpleThrobber said:
It won’t take that long once they start

The Throbber thinks the digital asset side of things is what is holding up the show.
Click to expand...
It will take billions. Maybe trillions to get off these platforms. Shit, UW just had a serval hundred million dollar purchasing system fuck up. Aldi scrapped a multi year $600 million implementation. I have spent 40 years working with and leading some of the biggest core systems implementations in the world. This change is not happening quickly.
 
haie said:
Yeah it's been a long time since you needed an IT team though. You'd probably shit your pants to see a DB as a service and then learn that some people still want to pay someone 180-200k to tweak indexes on ec2 or even run maintenance on on premise.

Anyways.. yesterday we closed a client that is a fucking household name..mentioned on this site a bunch..and they clearly have the money and means to try and used AI to build their own thing. I'll stop talking when I stop making more money.
Click to expand...
Disagree. I work with multiple companies that have massive IT teams and departments. In fact, my biggest client is hiring 15 people this quarter. Two weeks ago they asked my to help them interview people for 2 IT PMs. They are hiring cobol developers as well.
 
If Wells Fargo wants to pay someone to use agents to build some slop and then be liable for those transactions, yes, that is their choice. You can't replicate decades of bullet proof code that was designed for atomic operations. This is just going to make senior people with domain knowledge more money and already is. Junior people are getting carved out because yeah, they're being paid to just program some sockets or something.

The real issue is that the youngest developer that knows cobol is in their 50's and you can't offshore that to Dumb Fuck City, Dumbassistan in Europe
 
Your point about COBOL guys being in their 50s is exactly why companies will look to alternative methods of upgrading their systems. They are ageing out.

IBM has made billions on COBOL maintenance because it is cost prohibitive to reverse engineer the code. It’s not in IBMs self interest to do anything other than the way they’ve always done it. Like big Pharma for IT. There’s no reason to make things better.

The money will be made by those who utilize AI like Claude to wean institutions like banks and government agencies off decades old coding and systems.

It will happen faster than you think. The market is pricing that in.
 
There's risks (and cost) in using Claude as well. You used to not have to be Soc2 compliant. Just wait until proof of AI harnessing/guardrails are included into it.

And of course the cost of losing your intellectual property and agentic deployments that take your entire system down, like with AWS/QDev and the N Virginia region.

I use everything except copilot because it's for fags like buck. It's not the magic wand boomers think it is.
 
I have no clue what all the wonky software hawt talk means. My takeaway w/regards to AI on this board is that if the software guys are talking shit about AI it's because they know AI is going to replace them.
 
haie said:
That's your takeaway huh 😂
Click to expand...
pulpfiction-motherfucker.gif
 
The only thing I know about AI is that it’s super important to acknowledge that you are planning on using it in your Board presentations. And no one on the Board knows anything about it and so everyone just smiles and nods.
 
BleachedAnusDawg said:
And, yes, all the software guys are going to be picking up trash for a living five years from now.
Click to expand...
Not all but a pretty good chunk. There will be a transition phase will AI gets corrected by the old timers and higher level folks.

Same is going to happen to accounting, finance, legal, anything with data analysis, data entry in the next 3 to 5 years.

Plumbers and most of the trades are safe for now. But when the HVAC guy was out here a couple months ago, he was AI'ing the shit out of troubleshooting why my heatpump was freezing on the coils.

Robo-HVAC guy is a few gyrations away.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top