Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Trained For Coding Career ? FORGET IT ! "AI" Will Do It All Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:41:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <20250814134112.0000451d@gmail.com> References: <107ei8l$318tt$4@dont-email.me> <20250812075938.000044ad@gmail.com> <107lfkf$n28d$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="21ee67de2fcc7fd2bc68a961fe67ceaa"; logging-data="483701"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mjqX8Lk2SZfIniPoIOAk3eqkHbo51zDk=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:NMlsfPcqYWG/0ZBXlYyd+felGRY= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71109 On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:06:39 -0000 (UTC) Rich wrote: > >> Time to find ways of suing/wrecking the AIs - danger to the human > >> economy/well-being and all that. > > > > It'll implode on its own in the near-enough future, anyway - the > > cash burn is *beyond* insane and they *still* aren't turning a > > profit > > It has all happened before, of course one has to be old enough to > remember one or more of the previous AI Winter's arrivals: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter > > This current round should really be worried about the Stark > catch-phrase from Game of Thrones: "Winter is coming". I'd say a more apropos literary allusion would be "The Ants and the Grasshopper," but it'd have to be some demented "Fractured Fairy Tales" version where the grasshopper is proposing to obsolete the worker ants and the queen keeps handing him insane piles of resources on the strength of the promise he's completely unable to fulfill :/