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The discussion centers on the potential for AI to replace human jobs, particularly in engineering, with ChatGPT suggesting engineers are at higher risk. Participants note that while automation has historically replaced certain tasks, the engineering field remains robust, with low unemployment rates. The conversation highlights the importance of adaptability for workers as AI evolves, emphasizing that engineers often aim to streamline their roles. Concerns are raised about AI's limitations, including its lack of judgment and long-term memory, which could hinder its ability to fully replace human engineers. Ultimately, the consensus leans towards a belief that while AI will change the landscape, complete replacement of engineers is not imminent.
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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/mit-report-95-generative-ai-105412686.html

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.

Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects.

This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again​

https://fortune.com/2025/08/17/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-ai-sabotage/

Eric Vaughan, CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech, is unwavering as he reflects on the most radical decision of his decades-long career. In early 2023, convinced that generative AI was an “existential” transformation, Vaughan looked at his team and saw a workforce not fully on board. His ultimate response: He ripped the company down to the studs, replacing nearly 80% of staff within a year, according to headcount figures reviewed by Fortune.
 
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Goes to show how out of touch management can be with the actual workings on the "factory floor". As long as modern buzzwords (or "buzz-concepts") are used stocks may go up, but the actual productivity (or in this case the lifes of random people) suffers.
 
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sbrothy said:
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AI is already replacing some software engineering roles... and to be honest you can't half blame the companies: why pay someone $100k what you could do with just $10 of AI credits? My parents showed me a new AI tool just today. It wrote an entire app, with a fully functioning backend with sign in and auth as well as full functionality for what we wanted the app to do (which, was not simple, and included mucking about with APIs, SQLlite... and more). It designed a beautiful react frontend and coded the entire project, we literally just had to sit there and watch. It cost just over $9 worth of Claude API credits. They said (and they are engineers), that this sort of project... you would have to pay an engineer for at least a month to get it going. We were just giving it a shot for fun but it was crazy.

Oh yeah, and they are also practically mandated to use AI in their jobs by their companies, as engineers. Companies are keen to get people to adopt this stuff.
 
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russ_watters said:
[…] There was an early chatbot that was allowed to learn and grow and it quickly learned trolling/hate/racism and incorporated that into its model, and had to be shut down.

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I vividly remember that one! It was ugly and embarrassing, but somehow only surprising to it’s creators.
 
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sbrothy said:
I vividly remember that one! It was ugly and embarrassing, but somehow only surprising to it’s creators.
Yeah, it's baffling that they didn't see it coming or even test for it.
 
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Astronuc said:

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/mit-report-95-generative-ai-105412686.html



This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again​

https://fortune.com/2025/08/17/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-ai-sabotage/
he discovered after training literally thousands of people that “most people hate learning. They’d avoid it if they can.”

I like learning with an exception of most software packages. It can be hard to do the simplest things. Blender (the big animated graphics package) is a nightmare as far as I'm concerned.
 
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russ_watters said:
Yeah, it's baffling that they didn't see it coming or even test for it.
Indeed. I suspect that just banning it from the various "chan" sites, "ED" and perhaps "reddit" would have been enough. Maybe allowing it only google as a search engine.

Nah, it's probably pervasive throughout the internet.
 

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