Y'all been on this list for 20-30 years and witnessed the Dot Com bubble
burst. I see AI doing the same thing. It's already cracking. The Slop is
burning some companies. Computer Science degrees represent the highest
of the unemployed at 9%. Some companies are going full-bore on AI, and
some are realizing not every problem is a Nail for their AI Hammer. AI
has its place, and I disagree with Elon Musk - AI isn't going to take
over everyone's job.
I use AI at work. I've had arguments with Gen AI as it gave me the wrong
answer. "You're absolutely right! Let me answer again..." with the same
wrong answer. I eventually asked if it had a Linux VM to try the
solution. LOL. Yeah, Slop.
This year, I've been tasked with creating an AI that will help our
customers solve their access problem so my team won't spend 40% of our
time being Level 1 Support. Great. If anyone has been to an ISC2 CISSP
seminar in the last year, they are solidly against AI as it is
nondeterministic, meaning it will give different answers with the same
inputs, and that is a paradigm that won't work in information security.
So Generative AI is out for me. I wrote an Expert System last year that
solved about 80% of customer problems. This year, I'll rewrite it based
on lessons learned.
The joker in me wants to diagram the solution on a very large piece of
paper and hand that over as I leave. A final middle finger to AI and
digital everything.
Where I see the future for IT is in Quality Control. Back when I got my
degree on a stone tablet, we learned about these things called "boundary
conditions" and developed test plans that included boundary conditions
to validate the code. In my experience, unless specifically prompted,
Gen AI will fully earn is Slop moniker and write code that fails at the
boundaries. That's where we, the brains, will win. Checking the prompts,
developing test plans, and validating correctness.
Regards,
George Toft
On 3/9/2026 6:26 AM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
The AI weirdness is going to generate a lot of AI slop in the job
market as well. Required skill, but also need to be able to find those
with real skills to back the AI skills.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks!!
I was a young adult in the 70's and 80's. Loved the muscle car
era. In
1982 I bought a house with a 12.5% mortgage. I was able to assume
someone else's mortgage rate. At that time the going rate was around
17%.
The economy has been a roller coaster during my lifetime.
Until I became a freelancer I had a love/hate relationship with tech
because it has been a real struggle to stay employed.
Now it looks like AI is going to cause a crash in the short term....
Funny I think most employers don't have a clue.
Keith
On 2026-03-07 22:00, Pablo Camacho wrote:
> Thank you for sharing this video, Keith. This is good to know.
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Interesting video says housing down turn is tied to tech :
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmk4UzqYupY
>>
>> Keith
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