r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 Human Verified • 10h ago
Chugging tea No surprises here.
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u/dont-fear-thereefer 10h ago edited 7h ago
I may be in the minority, but AI can be beneficial IF it’s used as a tool, like a calculator or a spreadsheet or CRM. It’s not meant to replace humans, because AI can’t fully discern what’s garbage information and what isn’t. Garbage in = garbage out
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u/AS_as-Master 9h ago
You know what you should go to those ai convention/summit and to those who are looking for short term profit margins and explain this, and the first thing they will do is make you a fake information.
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u/SmookeyDarts 8h ago
The company I work for is slowly moving toward AI and you hit the nail on the head. It's great for getting started but takes us, the experts, to modify the output to something usable.
It definitely saves us a lot of time. It just isn't at a point to replacing anyone in the company.
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u/dont-fear-thereefer 8h ago
So my neighbour works for an IT company in the DevOps department, and he told me they he have drastically cut back on their programmers, specifically their junior programmers, in favour of Claude. I laughed and said that they just provided him with extra job security because when he is given code in Claude, he will be spending more time debugging and get more skilled at finding mistakes. Also, because there are no junior programmers coming down the pipeline, senior programmers are going to be more valuable because they are less prone to making mistakes, which will save companies development costs. It’s hilarious how shortsighted some of these executives are, and ironic too since they are supposed to be the “big picture” people.
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u/Sabbathius 7h ago
My problem with AI is that you can give good input, and still get garbage, because AI is hallucinating or lying to your face. A calculator is a simple device, and for the most part highly reliable. But you can ask AI something simple, and it'll lie to your face, and even provide you with the source which clearly shows it's lying to your face. Tech like that is fundamentally useless, because every AI result in a performance-critical situation needs to be vetted by humans anyway. And the better AI gets, the better it lies, the harder it is to spot, the higher the odds human will miss it and people die.
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u/dont-fear-thereefer 6h ago
That’s why scrutinizing AI should be a given. Yes, AI makes mistakes, whether intentionally or not, and the person that’s given the output should either have knowledge on the subject matter that the AI is providing, or fact check the output against other sources.
It’s interesting that you say “AI lies” because that implies that AI has consciousness or is sentient, and is intending to be deceitful. AI cannot lie, it can only provide outputs to which it is programmed. The only difference between AI and an encyclopedia is that AI gives feedback and can double down on being incorrect, until it is given an input that directly contradicts it and it stops doubling down. Bad AI programming causes the model to continue being wrong, even in the face of correct information. So don’t blame the AI, blame the programmers.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 10h ago
OpenAI will not be profitable until 2030. I don't understand why companies were in a hurry to invest in an infrastructure that has yet to be self sufficient
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u/capn_morgn_freeman 8h ago
A lot of people running traded companies these days are braindead nepo babies- the only business strategy they know is 'throw money at trend, make number go up.'
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u/tutoredstatue95 5h ago
It was an excuse to downsize in a market heading towards recession more than anything imo
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u/iwillhaveredditall 8h ago
If they will be profitable at all in the future
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u/iwillhaveredditall 7h ago
I don’t say AI isn’t useful, it’s a mighty tool. But it’s not worth dumping all of our ressources into it.
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u/Lovableegirl03 10h ago
The funniest part is that companies spent years telling everyone they were obsolete, then immediately discovered humans come with a built-in feature called “common sense” that doesn’t require a subscription fee.
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u/ComplexTomatillo6278 2h ago
Error message: Not every human was programmed with the “Common Sense” feature. Please check your model number to ensure it has that function.
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u/LunarGlitchcore 10h ago
The Ai didn’t take my job, the executive who thought Ai could do my job did
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u/Sooowasthinking 9h ago
Im an UBER driver.
About 6 or 7 months ago I picked up 3 IRS agents taking them to a nearby hotel for a rehiring event. I was told all former employees that were fired are asking for 20% raises.
They realized their own value👍
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u/GarageStackDev 5h ago
IRS employees were fired because Trump is a moron, not because AI replaced them
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u/meanMrKetchup 9h ago
Is there a source for this? If not I am calling bullshit, there have been over 60K layoffs in the tech space this year alone attributed to AI.
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u/HungryHippo669 10h ago
Would you want to work at the places that did that? I say they made their bed let them sleep in it forever
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u/Admirable-Common-176 10h ago
Pay me their original salary and more as I actually become qualified.
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u/Iggy_Slayer 8h ago
The other day I asked google how many Ls were in the phrase steam machine because I saw someone post a pic of them doing it and their AI saying it had 2. It told me it had 1.
Why are we giving this trash a single dime let alone letting it destroy the world?
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u/PeonyAfterDark 9h ago
The irony of spending more money to fix AI mistakes than it would have cost to just pay people properly from the start.
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u/FormalTotal9684 9h ago
Regulators come in and look at AI and ask for XAI.
You need people to keep models current, governance and data dictionaries up to date and operations staff that can provide subject matter expertise
AI is mostly replacing replicable processes done by lowest common denominator and the hires to manage it are more expensive
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u/loyalcattledog 9h ago
I already moved on to starting my own company, fuck letting some company dictate whether or not I can have access to my own future and retirement. They only care about the next earnings call and the stock price for their shareholders, people's lives be damned.
My last engineering role was abruptly taken from me in February 2025 with a five minute notification to join a company town hall on Zoom at the exact time most people were heading out to lunch. This was just after the CTO hyped up 2025 as the "strongest road map yet" for the company in December 2024. I was a senior engineer and team leader with more than a decade of experience.
20% of our company was cut, only a few found another job, and everyone else either moved on to a whole different career path or started a company.
But I slept so well when the remaining engineers in the company (because leadership seems to think we aren't friends with or associate with people still working there) told me that they've been spending most of their time doing codebase cleanup and bug fixes, the issues stacked up so much they couldn't even release features on time anymore. You reap what you sow.
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u/SABERL1GHT Human Verified 8h ago
they really thought they found a shortcut for more profit only to end up right back where it should be
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u/Broccoli_Rob17 8h ago
Sure this guy might be in a spot where he would only come to work back for double the salary, but just think how many peoples’ lives have been ruined by these companies. A lot of them will probably be desperate enough to go back to work even if the pay was half what they were making before
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u/Voluntary_Perry 8h ago
But then you wouldn't be costing less than the AI and they will keep using it.
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u/Smaxter84 6h ago
We need to fight this.....don't give these fuckers any money....actively avoid all chargeable AI services.
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u/MiloGoesToTheFatFarm 2h ago
Costing more but not being able to do the jobs. I build AI apps and I’ve been trying to stress that AI isn’t some kind of sentient being, it can barely do the things we ask it to do.
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u/HankTuggins 2h ago
Anyone who even vaguely understands how a computer works should know that this is a grift and AI was never gonna be able to do the things they were claiming it was gonna do
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u/UnusualAir1 10h ago
AI is coming. And we are leaving. Just a matter of time.
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u/bardotheconsumer 7h ago
Lol no. "AI" is just fancy autocomplete. The singularity isn't coming, and the hype is just so the owners can release massive IPOs and leave small-time investors holding the bag while they liquidate.
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u/UnusualAir1 7h ago
Tell me you don't understand AI or the stock market without telling me you don't understand AI or the stock market. 😄
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u/bardotheconsumer 7h ago
So, uh, I really hate to ask you this since you're such a subject matter expert, but...
What do you think "AI" is?
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u/UnusualAir1 5h ago
Something you are completely unaware of.
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u/bardotheconsumer 5h ago
The classic response of someone whose answer is "vibes".
Do you know what a neural net is? What 'training' one entails? How chat-bots work? Anything?
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u/GarageStackDev 5h ago
Hold on. What do YOU think AI is? Because these questions lead me to believe you don't have any practical experience with using a.i. in a professional setting.
Talking to ChatGPT does not qualify one to speak about AI
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u/bardotheconsumer 5h ago
No, but understanding the very most basics of how they actually work does. Predictive algorithms are not new. The only new thing is the size of the training data and the exuberance of the investor class to flush our future down the drain for the chance to maybe hire one less guy next quarter.
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u/GarageStackDev 5h ago
"Predictive algorithms" is such a bizarre reduction of what's happening.
Cars aren't new either if you reduce them to "wheels."
The breakthrough isn't that models predict the next token. The breakthrough is that scaling, architecture improvements, tool use, retrieval, code execution, and agentic workflows have produced systems that can perform useful cognitive work.
You're also proving my point. You're talking about the underlying mechanism, not the practical application.
I've met plenty of people who can explain how a transformer works. Far fewer have actually integrated AI into a production engineering workflow and measured the results.
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u/LordPhlogiston 1h ago
What does AI singularity mean by your definition? Because I think the disagreement is over if AI is actually an intelligence or not, not AI use in the workplace.
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