I know I'm getting old, or dare I hope to say, wise, because I can't shake the feeling that any and all demonstrable #productivity gains generated by the use of #AI could be outweighed by simply #teaching people to use and manipulate structured plain text efficiently.
Likewise, teaching new #engineers to do those basic things well instead of jumping straight to "this is how you install the latest framework".
@tealeg With structured plain text do you mean code or something else?
@GreenSkyOverMe I mean both.
We express everything in tools that encapsulate that information in difficult formats or behind walls of proprietary software and SaaS.
We spend time on confusing layouts, and complicated interactions in order to make our software and services look attractive or modern at first sight.
All of these things are far harder to custom programming around. All these things make our business processes harder to automate and less flexible when we do.
@GreenSkyOverMe ... worse still. We squander immense amounts of computing power achieving little or no more than we could have achieved 30 years ago.
Now we're fetishising AI because it can make this drudgery a little less, all at the cost of massive amounts more energy, computing power and natural resources, for a marginal gain in real terms.
I'm stating a sincere feeling that It would be better for our sanity, economy and planet if we stopped and simplified.
I agree, it just seems like it is a marketing scam to sell you new services, phones or devices.
Machine learning can help us with Science, which is where most of it should be perhaps used, as foor helping the lazy or incompetent to write an e-mail for them, then we really do need to question that.
