George,
You made me laugh!!! I think you are so right. I've spend over 250
hours with AI learning and building. I learned a lot. The problem is it
is now giving me multiple answer for the same problem. Yikes!!! I need
some help however, I do not know what answer is more correct than the
next. Maybe there is dozens of answered and they are all correct.
Yikes!!!!!
As a PHP developer that dabbles in the Linux world I find AI very
helpful.
I am able to do research much quicker than the old way of searching
google.
One of the things I have found is AI does not tell the who story. I
asked it to make me a PDF on a topic and ask it to tell me
everything..... It left out a lot. To get the whole picture I have had
to drill down deep. Here is the problem : I do not know what I do not
know... so what is missing from the IA output??
I think you are correct, we are heeded towards a crash much like the
early days of the Internet.
Trump just issued an executive order that the AI data centers are
required to produce their own electricity. Good!!!! AI tells me it
will take 10+ years to build all that infrastructure. I do not recall
what valley city just rejected a data center because of water concerns.
We have a pending water shortage.... And another very large data center
is being pursued in Penal County.
I asked AI about the future of PHP and it said PHP developer will need
to know more to adapt, however PHP will survive the pending AI boom, as
will those developers that adapt.
You would think Computer Science degrees would be in high demand. Seems
like these brains are needed, at least immediately, to talk with these
AI beasts.
I find AI valuable, and I find it very fallible.
I find AI can help me get to where I want to go faster, and can also
help me fail faster. The secret to success, at least for me, is I have
a to be a subject matter expert to ensure I am getting a decent answer.
Keith
On 2026-03-09 11:49, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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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