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No One Knows Anything About AI

Don’t let the clickbait title put you off. Related to my link about AI killing jobs in tech, here Cal Newport produces some compelling “both sides” receipts about how AI is helping + hurting software development. His conclusions are solid:

My advice, for the moment:

  1. Tune out both the most heated and the most dismissive rhetoric.
  2. Focus on tangible changes in areas that you care about that really do seem connected to AI—read widely and ask people you trust about what they’re seeing.
  3. Beyond that, however, follow AI news with a large grain of salt. All of this is too new for anyone to really understand what they’re saying.

AI is important. But we don’t yet fully know why.

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