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points by IncreasePosts 10 hours ago | 0 comments
But is it a race to zero? Maybe AI will make very expensive things (eg software engineering) very cheap, but there will be enough competition that the margins are tiny and don't actually justify putting crazy dollar amounts into research
[–] move6729 10 hours ago
That's exactly what's happening. Software -> 0 marginal cost (obviously still need engineers to actually make the architecture). LLMs -> Price of Energy / Amortized Cost of GPUs. "AI Labs" -> Owned by Creditors
[–] s_u_d_o 5 hours ago
From an engineer, who’s devastated by this, i have to admit/raise my concern: why do we still need engineers to make architecture? Why is everyone saying that’s a must? For me the toughest problem was coding a huge repo/pkgs, architecture should be much of an easier task to do. I’ve seen it do sys design, scaled architecture better than 10X engineers. With good planning, context and prospective info -> it can produce extremely good architecture even for complex systems.
[–] nonethewiser 2 hours ago
Im not sure I would say architecture specifically. Just anything on the input and output.
[–] move6729 20 minutes ago
It cant lmao (skill issue)