Mechanize, Inc.’s Post

Put an engineer with real industry knowledge in one room and AI in another, then ask both to design the best UI for the customer. AI will need a strong prompt and a lot of direction just to approach what the engineer can produce through judgment and domain understanding alone. That is why, instead of only looking for junior engineers, companies should also be looking for articulate subject matter experts who truly understand the customer and can help shape the solution.

Cognitive surrender. When you give up doing the hard work and let AI handle it. See the study that Wharton did, where after using AI for as little as two weeks users tended to agree with AI even when it was incorrect. They stopped thinking. In an AI world, Actual Intelligence is more valuable than ever.

The “AI replaces engineers who can’t beat it” narrative misses the point. AI is not a talent filter. It’s a system design challenge. The winners won’t be the ones who out-code AI. They’ll be the ones who rethink how decisions are made, where AI fits, and where humans must stay in the loop. That’s where the real leverage is!

Actually, it is replacing alot of engineers, smart and very capable engineers.

LoL... AI is still making grade-school mistakes, so no, it's not beating any engineers. Not yet, anyway. The companies performing layoffs are either betting that will change, and it /might/, or, as in the case of Block and Oracle, they're trying to fire their way to profitability after making serious staffing errors during COVID. Saying they're doing it because "AI is saving money" is just a way to put a positive spin on firing tens of thousands of people.

the iimage post is eye candy for sure. however, at its face value its a lie. AI replaces jobs...engineers, phone staff, support personnel, coders, and many more. Here's the question we ought to be asking....Why is cursing people's jobs and human to human interaction a good thing? It is socially disruptive, economically harmful to families and creates greater individual isolation. What we need isn't more AI, it is more creativity and humanity.

It’s a very provocative statement that was undoubtedly crafted to drive engagement. So, well done. But the fact is that AI is an enhancer. It is too mistake prone to be useful without a strong guiding hand. As an example, I was able to use AI to create an API driven report in Python that was missing from a product I use regularly. It took about three hours. It was only possible because I know Python and knew when AI was wrong. Without my expertise to guide it, the bot would not have been able to create a properly functioning product. Companies shedding expertise in favor of “investment in AI” are looking for short cuts. AI + expertise = growth. AI - expertise = a marketing ploy.

This is EXACTLY why AI is actually “evil”. In the long run, dependency on AI will gradually alter the human brain, making it unable to do even the simplest of thought tasks. This is not a theory, this is nature at work. Our collective stupidity is setting up the world for eventual collapse. Not because we aren’t smart, well, maybe we really aren’t after all.

I find it hilarious that these businesses are so quick to replace humans with AI for profit and or productivity yet they aren't willing to listen to employees about ways the company can change in order to do the same thing. Maybe it's not the employees that need replacing, maybe it's the board members or execs that continually make bad decisions and put the heavy weight on their subordinates when they know very little about how their protocol is obsolete and causing way more obstacles than necessary