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0 pointstechpression3mo ago0 comments

Why would anything you learn today be relevant tomorrow if AI keeps advancing? You would need less and less of all your tooling, markdown files and other rituals and just let the AI figure it out altogether.

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aurareturn3mo ago

So I can keep my job now so I can pay for compute in the future when I'm out of a job. The compute will be used to create my own business to make money.

techpressionOP3mo ago

Those are two different things though, and not everyone are stuck at a place enforcing token usage. And why would anyone pay you for something if all it takes is compute to make it? They would just make it themselves.

layer83mo ago

What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job?

palmotea3mo ago

> What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job?

Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?

AI may just turn software into a pay to win game.

aurareturn3mo ago

  Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?

I don't know. Maybe because of my creativity?

Anyways, I'm heavily invested in compute companies right now.

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aurareturn3mo ago

Maybe I can't. But that's also why I'm invested into AI companies right now.

Plan:

1. Keep my job for as long as I can by leveraging current AI tools to the best of my ability while my non-AI user colleagues lose earnings power or their job

2. Invest my money into AI companies and/or S&P500

3. If I'm truly rendered useless, live off of the investment

You got any better ideas? How would you do this?

layer83mo ago

I believe that I’ll keep enough of an edge in my job that I’ll continue to be employed. (At present I still have zero pressure to use AI, though I do use it.) It’s of course possible for that to turn out to be wrong, but in that case I also see no chance to start a business, and society will be in a lot of trouble.

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AstroBen3mo ago

> The compute will be used to create my own business to make money

tell me you've never seriously attempted starting a software business without telling me

It's like all these people for the last 2 decades "if only I knew how to code I'd make an app and be rich!" yeah sure you would

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aurareturn3mo ago

So I can keep my job now so I can pay for compute in the future when I'm out of a job. The compute will be used to create my own business to make money.

techpressionOP3mo ago

layer83mo ago

What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job?

palmotea3mo ago

Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?

AI may just turn software into a pay to win game.

aurareturn3mo ago

  Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?

I don't know. Maybe because of my creativity?

Anyways, I'm heavily invested in compute companies right now.

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aurareturn3mo ago

Maybe I can't. But that's also why I'm invested into AI companies right now.

Plan:

1. Keep my job for as long as I can by leveraging current AI tools to the best of my ability while my non-AI user colleagues lose earnings power or their job

2. Invest my money into AI companies and/or S&P500

3. If I'm truly rendered useless, live off of the investment

You got any better ideas? How would you do this?

layer83mo ago

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AstroBen3mo ago

> The compute will be used to create my own business to make money

tell me you've never seriously attempted starting a software business without telling me

It's like all these people for the last 2 decades "if only I knew how to code I'd make an app and be rich!" yeah sure you would

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse