It is more that knowledge workers are less sophisticated at using AI. It is not that hard to check whether sources are real, using AI. Something like functional testing will come to non programming tasks.
NY Times has done no reporting substantiating the claim the hundreds of thousands have died. They have published an OpEd piece and have reported a memo by a USAID employee how was upset about being fired. It is all models and unsubstantiated claims.
Do you think commercial real estate are backing maintaining single family zoning in places like Palo Alto, or do you think they'd actually benefit from tossing all the zoning, and being able build, sell, and rent as many office buildings and apartments and condominiumns as possible?
That said: I am not obligated to quote a speech that is freely available for everyone to listen to or to read. I don't know which "comments" exactly I have "distorted", but - on the other hand - this is an opinion piece, not a Reuters ticker report.
Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either
What DHH actually said:
I have AI delirium. AI euphoria. Because this is simply the most exciting thing we have made computers do in the time I have worked with them, played with them, interacted with them. But I think actually to wrestle with the fact that on the one hand, this is tremendously exciting, it is also a little unnerving.
and
There's only one play here, and it's total Fucking optimism. Lean in to the max possible. Because the utopia is almost here.
If people want to have the OG transcript - they can always find it. I was translating the message he (willingly or not) has sent out to that particular audience, in that particular context.
You received a highly distorted negative version of what he was saying. Another example is the claim 37 Signals "banned" hand coding. What he said is they went AI first, and that hand writing was exceptional.
We are going, and have gone, pencils down on the idea that we were gonna write code by hand as a normal course of business creating things. Writing code by hand at 37signals is now an exceptional state.
I think I have received more of what was _not_ said than of what was said. I did watch the entire thing a couple of times just to make sure I haven't missed something. I think this article explains it better https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails
We might be a bit suspicious of the sincerity of a man who spent 20 years evangelizing the beauty and expressiveness of code, and who felt he was a pioneer in that field, and who then finds himself and his life's work completely obsolete, when he tells us how excited he is about LLMs never letting him never write code again.
Which stage of grief is "delirium"? After we accept the death of our child, are we euphoric?
I mean, he is kind of spelling it out for you there: "there's only one play here".
DHH is like a script that runs permanently in a loop, promoting AI now.
Before that it was rails, though the old rails promo made a lot more sense
than the AI promo. But as long as you feed these people money, they do whatever
you want them to say. An even more hilarious example is Sebastian Kurz - dude
got insta-rich after politics. Like +100 million euros in a year. Tell me this
is not corruption to the max ...
The AI companies and security companies buy legislation. Everywhere. And their
financial kickbacks are AMAZING - otherwise you could not so easily change a few
top-influencers into tools to influence other people.
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