In the recent days, my friend and I have discussing on how AI is replacing software engineers based on the current tweets. Usually, it would be laughter and lighter talks. This time it felt different and heavy. Maybe more real? This shock slapped after anthropic CEO made a statements and the following tweets on it.
But the reality is that AI creeps in all slices of life. It isn’t just in tech. It reminds me a picture/meme usually done to imitate the working nature of a women with n number of hands.
#Professional Creep.
In the jobs/professional space, it helps to automate, personalise the mails, documents, sheets, presentattions, articles, reviews and solving big complex issues and thereby saving time. On paper, this is great. Faster output, less friction and more efficiency. Humans have always optimized for efficiency. When we save time, does it help us in stay in the Zen mode or simply fill that space with more expectation, deliverables and more noise? Not sure tho.
More importantly, if AI does the grunt work, do we lose the satisfaction of completion? The pride of craft? No idea on the effects of it on the behavior.!!!
#Beyond the Office
Apart from tech, it’s the same story in most of the domains. Robotics in farming. AI-led weeding. Sensors monitoring soil, fields and cattle grazing (Lol, Aadu maadu kuda meika mudiyathu pola! JK). Yield predictions. Precision agriculture. It has quietly taken away the learning curve of handling relationship with unknown factors, complexity, articulation, thinking and costing our presence even in the physical world. Maybe we will have our digital avatars in the future? Lol!
#Two Divisions
People usually fall into two groups. Optimism and pessimism.
Optimistic people says that AI removes these mundane tasks and leave us with more time in solving the bigger problems.
The pessimists sees the mass unemployment, cascading effects on future, livelihood, health, economy and the purpose.
#What we are losing
There is subtle and gradual feel of how AI occupies the space in our day to day activities. These tools aren’t threat to us physically. For eg, writing assistant, image generator, emotional regulators, health assistants, sensors, tech agents. Most of them are reshaping.
When it does all the work, what will be doing? What about the muscle work like articulation, thinking and more ? Whether the leisure will be pleasure or anxiety?
#Where I stand
I don’t have a clean answer tbh. I am conflicted as I stay updated with these news and information. Its happening so fast that the effects are hard to predict. Can we control this? No. Maybe it’s a tsunami wave? Debating whether AI is good or bad is like asking if the revolution should have happened? But are we not past that question. We’re in the eye of it.
The real question isn’t whether to resist or accept or embrace, but how to stay afloat/alive. Learning to work with these tools, understanding what they can and can’t do, finding the spaces for ourselves where human judgment still matters. Maybe that’s the leverage.
But here’s the uncomfortable part! Plot twist!
Even that might be temporary. The goalpost keeps moving. What feels like leverage today might be automated tomorrow. Who knows!
So maybe the answer is learning to be comfortable with the discomfort. Staying adaptable. Delulu is the solulu. :P
Cheers
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