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My productivity has increased tenfold since January. I'm basically botsitting. I don't need a team anymore, I can do larger non-trivial software projects on my own. Well, not on my own, but definitely with my new colleague AI. Never had such a competent team in form of a chat-stream. I'm just telling him what to do and try to keep track of the code before committing. I feel like a dumb manager now, chasing some poor devs around. Only they're not human and waaaay more productive than I ever could be.

The kicker of course is right now those gains land in my lap as I'm the one using the AI. Awesome!

The downside of course is that the exact same processes I can now optimize and automate won't need optimizing and automating anymore quite soon now because those will also be done by AI. I'm a sole developer at a law firm. You should see the faces of the lawyers clueing in on what AI means for _their_ job.

Using AI is basically a new cultural technique such as reading, writing and math and it makes specialized white-collar humans (like me) less needed in the mid- to long term. Anybody who expects that to show up on some monetary balance sheet in the stock market doesn't understand the nature of the tool. Point in case: a company like Google is worth X on the stock market. The value Google provides to humanity however is 100x or something like that. We run around with SF supercomputers in our pocket that make star trek communicators look like some plastic toy you get as a token prize at a fair-raffle.

Thus are the effects of an ever expanding post-scarcity economy. Expecting something meaningful to show up on the stock market because of that is like expecting a decomissioned steam engine to fix itself when I get a new Tesla car.

I'm getting into music production using an all-digital FOSS toolchain with only a Suno subscription and some second-hand Midi Controller hardware as the proprietary stuff. I use Suno as a source of inspiration and foundations for own tracks. What newest 5.5 model of Suno puts out, even in written and sung lyrics, is absolutely impressive. Media production is a field that's being turned on its head by generative AI and the most impressive case for that is about 80% of stuff Suno has put out for me in the last 10 weeks. If there is anything sustainable about how Suno is doing its thing, entire production pipelines in the music industry can basically get ready to shut down. I've seen sound engineers turn speechless listening to what Suno does with their raw material in less than 5 minutes for a process that would take some pro an entire week and even then not quite reach the level of quality.

Given that every cord and cadence has been played and (re)discovered probably hundreds or even thousands of times I wonder if anyone has a case against their AI or could argue that Suno is not original in the same way humans are. But other than that, as of today modern digital music production has basically ceased to be a job IMHO.

Is that a problem? It feels uncomfortable, sure. But what's the legal take here?

... to begin with. Why I don't quite get is that many people seem to be unaware of how quickly LLMs will be optimized to run on quasi-regular hardware, not needing the insane datacenters primarly used for training. AI _is_ a revolutionary tech, no doubt, but there also is a bubble that likely is about to pop.

... is what I suspect. If AI has the impact many predict, people will have to rely on their social security network for a while, but given the AI productivity boost things will get way cheaper too. There will be chaos and more pain than necessary for country with a sub-par wealth distribution, but by and large I am somewhat optimistic about the AI shakeup.

If all goes as it should we'll all simply be working less in 10 years time. To be honest, I already am. AI has cut my workload and increased my productivity even further to more than compensate for me calling it a day an hour earlier than just a year ago.

Bulldozer flatten the physical world. AI generates content and code in the virtual world. Huge difference.

So being smart isn't a rarity anymore? Boo hoo.

When a smartphone can do a diagnosis just as good as a doctor (or better), when it can cough up a legal document that is 80% finished after 30 seconds, that's overall a good thing. Some desk jockeys like us will lose their prestigious jobs. Really no big loss for society as a hole.

The problem is, of course, that running a fascist surveillance state has just gotten 5 orders of magnitude cheaper. That sure is a problem we need to be aware of.

The TOS of these commercial services say they basically own your content, unless it's illegal, then all the burden is on you. This has been the case ever since those services became a thing, more than 25 years ago.

That's why any computer and internet expert worth their reputation does not use these services without a throw-away alias account or for anything mission-critical.

... Xbox One X. Awesome machine. Console affordable, games dirt cheap, all the bugs ironed out. I'll be getting the Xbox Series X when that drops in price ... which is likely not going to happen for a while but is totally fine by me. I still have plenty games to play on my current main console.

I always wait until the end of a generation before I buy. I've still got 80+ games, most of them unplayed. Even my Xbox 360 library is half unused. Someday I want to finish the Orange Box on that one.

... development it's basically one language for front and backend, which is a game-change. Especially with you use the newest stuff in the Jamstack, such as Deno which runs TS natively. In that regard, TS is basically the new version of JS.

It's taking shape: Basic life may actually be quite common. Naked apes typing on keyboards on a digital network they built themselves not so much.

The rare earth and rare advanced intelligent life theories just got some extra weight.

... in Europe is roughly 5 degrees centigrade above worst case scenarios projected for the year 2050 back in 2016. Germany will likely crack the 40 degree mark in multiple locations at the end of this week. Once again a new heat record. I personally expect this to only get more intense in the next years until perhaps the gulf stream completely shuts down.

These are cascading effects kicking in and ramping up. It wouldn't stop if the planet went net-zero carbon tomorrow. So we're pretty f*cked, as predicted ever since 1970. I'm curious how hard though. Guess we'll find out soon.

... in some parts, contains bucketloads of over-the-top excess trivia in others and has sections that are flat-out provably false. If the sections chiefs don't think an article is important, they delete it. That's why poets important to the development of a language and culture sometimes don't even have an entry, let alone more that 3 lines while some third-grade rapper that made some noise 10 years back has an essay with 10 000 words covering every detail of their private life.

I've seen flat-out bullshit on wikipedia more than once, I've corrected some things, roughly 30% get rolled back. If an area of expertise has asshole/dimwitt chief editors (or whatever they are called in wikipedia-speak) I often just give up and don't bother.

Wikipedia is a reflection of our times and what's important to us. And it should be viewed as such. With a pound of salt.

... won't be spared. I'm down 20k from my last salary and with AI my productivity has risen 5x. On to of that, the processes I was supposed to automate with code are getting replaced by AI themselves.

Prepare for incoming.

... to my AI metasubscription now. AI does what I ask it to do, I just review the changes and commit. It's like having a personal team of 10-20 experts sitting in a chat just ready to do my bidding. It's not sitting but it doesn't feel like that too often yet.

However it's quite staggering to watch am AI so your job an order of magnitude better than yourself. And that for a bunch of software stacks a human couldn't dream to comprehend. It's also sobering to watch the value-add chains I'm supposed to automate with code being voided entirely by AI. Not only is my job gone, the context with which it makes sense is also rapidly vanishing. You should see the look on the face of the lawyers I work with when the realize how AI does away with them too.

I'm very likely going to leave my current team. I'm in the process of leaving classic Web software development as a day job. ... You guys can't imagine how glad I am not having just software and the Web as my only field of experience and expertise.