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Comment Negative productivity is a possibility (Score 1) 30

Even if only a third of this crap works

It's even possible the messes from coerced AI makes will create lots of clean-up jobs later. Managers pressure employees to use AI, and most will satisfy their token quota to keep their job, but not necessarily with sound engineering and quality control in mind.

It's roughly comparable to using more RAD tools to make non-trivial apps (pre-AI). It can be done "good enough", but is usually a longer-term maintenance headache: penny-wise-pound-foolish. Similar happened with the outsourcing craze roughly 15 years ago. Many regretted it.

"If you want it badly, that's exactly how you'll get it."

Comment Software patents a net drain to econ (Score 1) 23

It is lazy lawfare.

Patents on software are a net drain of resources on our economy. Most software "inventions" are not in giant Edison-like labs, but situational happenstance. As an incentive system, it sucks. And the patent office can't tell the rare gems from trash patents such that the net result is waste on trash patents.

Nukem!

Comment Companies ever more value real world (Score 2) 51

...experience and incremental innovation rather than strive for cutting-edge moon-shots. Long-term investments keep biting companies in the tush such that they have trimmed that. Current ROI formulas used in practice expect a return on investment by about 5 years*.

Also, they often move cutting edge research to the 3rd world because Masters and PhD's are much cheaper to rent there. Brain-intensive work is being outsourced.

* Japanese and EU companies tend to be more patient, for good or bad.

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