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To play the devils advocate. Someone some where every day has been calling for a massive crash since the last massive crash. Their thesis is based whatever current events are at the time.
That aside. I think the so called AI bubble is distracting from something worse. The west has not been inventing or producing anything in a long time. The prevailing zeitgeist had shifted to a greater-fool pyramid-scheme type mindset. It happened a long time ago. Long before AI.
Everyone believes they're smart for thinking they can park their money in the right investments and live passively off others doing the hard work. Nobody wants to work anymore.
Sorry (not sorry) if that last sentence makes Lemmy users irate like it does on other social media. I don't know if it does or doesn't. But I think it's true.
It's not just billionaires scooping up all the wealth. People have been fighting each other for the scraps too.
If the so called AI bubble bursts. I think a bigger domino falls. The one where everyone has to face a sobering reality. They all thought they were smarter than each other by trying to get rich off the other person doing all the work. Which has led us to a point where nobody has been doing anything. Not inventing new things. Not producing good product. Not manufacturing anything. Doing nothing but watching imaginary lines go up. This is not just AI but the whole of society has come to be built on this mindset.
Everything has been hyper-capitalized. The kid with a lemonade stand has been trying to figuring out how he can minmax his investment by giving you a tiniest pinch of lemonade powder per cup of water. It's crazy times. Not just the AI industry.
It's like the NFT bubble, and the crypto bubble before it, and the Metaverse, and VR, and WeWork, gigifcation of everything, etc etc. These bubbly tech products keep booming and busting because the West isn't actually creating real value anymore, it's just chasing every latest tech fad and then moving on to the next shiny thing when the previous fad fizzles out.
The everything bubble, basically.
It's sobering working in engineering and seeing the MBA bros take over.
No long term planning, no pride in the work, and no care about quality, safety or utility.
Just corporate slogans and bullshit.
I feel like MBAs are one of the worst things to happen to industry in general. I know one that is a chore to work with, even though I'd definitely consider him one of the better ones in terms of aiming for quality and long-term stability – he's just super difficult when it comes to technical understanding and thinks he can tell me what I need for my job.
Me: "I need to document exactly what my users want this thing to do, so here's a form we can fill out to make my life easier."
MBA: "Make a spreadsheet with a table, one column per thing it can possibly do, and have people mark what they need. Trust me, that way they'll do your work for you! You'll make things so much easier for yourself!"
User: proceeds to fill out the table with garbage that would be useless if I didn't already have the prototype we're using as example
He also sent me a wonderful visual metaphor for my job, where the components I build from are different lego bricks and the end result is a lego house. No shit, sherlock, but I don't need people to tell me what bricks they want the house to be built from. I need to know what the house is supposed to look like.
He's also trying to have AI do part of my job. Not that I'm concerned – it could do half my job and I'd still have too much to do, and I'm pretty sure it can't even do a tenth as it is. I'm more worried about the AI spitting unexplained garbo and making more work for me when I need to explain why its output is different.