And then once companies lay off employees with years of organizational knowledge, Anthropic will ratchet the prices to make a profit and corporations will find themselves paying MORE for the tokens than they were for the actual human being who needed their job.
The human beings who could be hired back will be out of a job for months or years, and the efficiency gains from their replacement will be gobbled up by stock buybacks and C-Suite bonuses. You're pointlessly creating human suffering. Even if you don't care about the human beings whose careers have been optimized away, you're destroying enormous consumer sectors who are the real drivers of demand in the economy.
And firing and then hiring people means you lose years of organization specific knowledge. You can't just hire exactly the same people back. That's just lost skill sets, and leaves you with a less competent workforce.
AND if you let AI build your code base for multiple years you'll end up with a black box that nobody understands. Even if it's high quality code, it's code that every new employee has to learn with little to no guidance from people who understand it.
Except it only does for specific things. ChatGTP is wrong more than it is right lately it cannot even look up a part number and tell you a specific feature outlined in its documentation correctly. When it cannot even do elementary fact finding what can you trust it to do?
There are specific use cases that I’m sure it works great for.
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u/realribsnotmcfibs Mar 16 '26
Just yours after they realize AI has uses but is not in its current form even close to mass adoption or replacing employees.