It’s definitely overhyped. I hesitate to call it a bubble—it’s more like the normal software business model with a new cover. Tons of projects and startups with pretty tenuous business models and improbable grand visions, most of which will peter out after a few years. But that has been going on for decades, and will likely continue until true AI makes it all irrelevant.
Most of these jobs are less interesting, and less impactful than they claim. Which makes the ethical considerations far less important. My advice is to focus on the day-to-day experience and what you can learn there. Pick one where you like the people, and get to actually build something rather than just rearranging existing crap.
it’s more like the normal software business model with a new cover
True enough, though it’s also the fact that these projects seem to have almost entirely displaced everything else that makes me suspect we’re almost in bubble regime. VCs just throwing money at anything that involves AI.
Most of these jobs are less interesting, and less impactful than they claim.
Well, I mean, they could be somewhat impactful in expectation. One out of a hundred might become big, and you don’t know which (in fact, 1% I suspect would be a good success rate...).
It’s definitely overhyped. I hesitate to call it a bubble—it’s more like the normal software business model with a new cover. Tons of projects and startups with pretty tenuous business models and improbable grand visions, most of which will peter out after a few years. But that has been going on for decades, and will likely continue until true AI makes it all irrelevant.
Most of these jobs are less interesting, and less impactful than they claim. Which makes the ethical considerations far less important. My advice is to focus on the day-to-day experience and what you can learn there. Pick one where you like the people, and get to actually build something rather than just rearranging existing crap.
True enough, though it’s also the fact that these projects seem to have almost entirely displaced everything else that makes me suspect we’re almost in bubble regime. VCs just throwing money at anything that involves AI.
Well, I mean, they could be somewhat impactful in expectation. One out of a hundred might become big, and you don’t know which (in fact, 1% I suspect would be a good success rate...).