Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

+1 Chat bots is not Klarna's problem. Their problem is they were the middle man, the big payment processors can do this on their own. And while it sounded great, most people realize that buy now pay later is not a big benefit to them. Those that."need" to use it are also going to be the ones less likely to pay, and when forced, due to inflationary pressures, they are going to pay for their real needs first, eggs, car house/rent. Klarna and similar can only hope for the scraps of what they left. Dinging a poor persons credit doesn't really change their situation and a law suit for a couple of missed $12 payments on a pair of $100 shoes is a the epitome of flushing money down the toilet. As with most companies, things are great until the reality of not great times punches you in the face.

NP. What a dumb article, likely written by AI. Does not make any actual connection between the AI bots and the losses. Just two disparate facts.

Anonymous wrote:AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.

You can choose not to use them. Resist

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

I am glad I studied pure mathematics because it thought me how to solve hard problems. I am an electrical engineer and when I tell people my background and that I never took a single course in circuits or electronics they are shocked. Sadly though corporations today want workers who are ready from day 0. I don't think a young grad who studied pure math will be hired because he doesn't have the "practical" skills to be used from day 1.

Anonymous wrote:So what happens when the companies fire us all and then no one can afford the products and services they are selling?

Anonymous wrote:AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

We will be living in a totally different world -- in many ways -- within a year or two because of this. People don't understand how fast this will evolve.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.

Anonymous wrote:Lobbyists. We will always need lobbyists and you can’t automate my job or accomplish it with AI. We are like roaches. When the nuclear bomb goes off in the job market it will be us and a bunch of AI robots with jobs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.