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Anthropic just released Claude 3.7 Sonnet. This has been my go-to for coding for the past 6+ months.
2025 UPDATE!! MUSK AIs FED GOV!! Altman: prepare for AI to be "uncomfortable"…33% US jobs gone…BASIC INCOME?
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Boston Dynamics' Atlas 2.0 Humanoid Robot Learns to Pick Up, Carry, and Place Objects
Boston Dynamics' Atlas 2.0 humanoid robot learns how to pickup, carry, and place objects at company headquarters. Engineers showcased how it could be used in automotive factories and warehouses, where one is expected to sort parts. They gave Atlas a basic description of the desired end state...
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GnauzBookOfRhymes
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Also I do feel that developers will lose jobs in future over AI but mostly those which do simple tasks because so far that's what AI can do better
This is where we might see industries screwing themselves over. AI can do the simple entry-level work. But if you replace entry-level workers with AI, what are you going to do when your senior workers retire? There won't be anyone to replace them, because no one else has had the chance to get experience.
This is where we might see industries screwing themselves over. AI can do the simple entry-level work. But if you replace entry-level workers with AI, what are you going to do when your senior workers retire? There won't be anyone to replace them, because no one else has had the chance to get experience.
I guess one direction it might go is the concept of entry level will change? Then people wont be judged based on simple codes but what innovative ideas they are bringing to the table to further improve it
For example the person who can develop and code new ai models will have a bright future.
For example the person who can develop and code new ai models will have a bright future.
this is pretty bad, the government shouldn't be reducing it's workforce so it can replace it with AI chatbots. adding AI chatbots is not the problem but it should be done to compliment it's existing workforce, not replace them.
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Making everything bad is the point.
AI will soon be taking your drive-thru orders at 500 Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC locations
Fast-food giant Yum! Brands said it will begin rolling out AI at hundreds of its locations starting in April. How has AI worked at other fast-food chains?
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AI will soon be taking your drive-thru orders at 500 Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC locations
Artificial Intelligence will soon take fast-food orders at 500 major chains including Taco Bell , Pizza Hut and KFC .
Through a partnership with technology company Nvidia , fast-food giant Yum! Brands said it will begin rolling out AI at hundreds of its locations starting in April and continuing through June. That includes using the company's voice-ordering tech, which will handle complex menu orders and navigate customer speech patterns, according to a news release this week.
"Looking ahead, Yum! is expanding AI to help team members manage complex tasks, including AI agents that plan, reason and act to assist across restaurants," the parent company said in the release .
The rollout will incorporate more advanced AI capable of language models, emotional comprehension and personalized customer reactions, according to Yum! Brands.
Nvidia's AI technology has already been used at select Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurants during "a successful pilot" stage, Yum! Brands said. The technology is expected to "optimize drive-thru efficiency and back-of-house labor management through real-time analytics and alerts."
Fast food in its heyday: Take a nostalgic trip to A&W, McDonald's Taco Bell and more
Wendy's, McDonald's have also used AI for drive-thru orders
Yum! Brands joins other fast-food companies, like McDonald's and Wendy's , that have experimented with AI at its locations.
During a Feb. 13 earnings call , Wendy's CEO Kirk Tanner said the company will deploy voice-enabled AI to take orders at up to 600 restaurants nationwide after executives "really liked" the results of the pilot program, which incorporated the technology at nearly 100 locations.
Tanner added that FreshAI "improves the customer experience and enables some labor efficiencies in our restaurants."
Meanwhile, McDonald's ended a pilot AI program last July after customers reported the tool got orders wrong. In 2021, the fast food giant partnered with IBM to test-run the AI ordering technology at over 100 locations, according to CNBC and Fox Business .
"While there have been successes to date, we feel there is an opportunity to explore voice ordering solutions more broadly,” Smoot's memo said, per CNBC. “After thoughtful review, McDonald’s has decided to end our current partnership with IBM on AOT … IBM remains a trusted partner and we will continue to utilize many of their other products across our system.”
Some fast food customers frustrated by use of AI
While some may be open to the use AI at fast food chains, others have gone to social media to voice their frustration and shock.
See where your country falls in the 2025 World Happiness ReportContributing: Amaris Encinas and Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY
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AI-assisted reporting in Boston-area newsrooms raises questions about role of new technology in building a community
Several local news outlets have published articles by an “AI-assisted reporter,” prompting experts to reflect on journalism’s path forward.
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@t_blom
Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand.
We just invented the combine harvester.
The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.
2/32
@t_blom
I think this is true of doctors and lawyers too, but maybe a year or two later.
We're going to have an abundance of incredibly high-quality knowledge work at very low prices.
Instead of living off gruel, everyone's going to have bananas and kiwi fruit for pennies.
But the farmers will need to find something else to do with their time.
3/32
@Rujo_
What jobs did the farmers move to after the harvester was invented?
4/32
@t_blom
Bard.
5/32
@Maddy78988730
One myopic tweet, several coping replies. Good engagement farming, btw
6/32
@t_blom
🫡
7/32
@maceskridge
Did you have this take in 2022?
Is this take closer to being a reality now than then?
If so how and why?
8/32
@t_blom
The advances in coding models in the last 3 months are genuinely astonishing.
9/32
@inval1du5er
I don't understand why VCs are so obsessed with AI. Yes it makes no sense to write code from scratch when you have AI tools which have decent code generation for small to medium code snippet. But you can't prompt an AI to write the next gen database or next gen load balancer.
10/32
@t_blom
You can't *yet* prompt an AI to write the next gen database or next gen load balancer.
The mistake I think people make is reasoning about the capabilities of AI today, not where it's likely to be in 1-2 years.
11/32
@Pricodex
"Can someone please help me? Create a Y Combinator clone to take all their jobs!"
12/32
@t_blom
Several have tried
13/32
@thdxr
AI can already post better than this how come there's still demand for your posts
14/32
@julianjneuss
we’re entering the i, Robot era - fast.
one-man billion-dollar companies on one end, robots replacing low-end labor on the other.
you build or you’re replaced.
step 1: launch something that prints money solo.
step 2: move to a ranch, get solar, animals, weapons, and full autonomy.
step 3: wait for the collapse - while shipping v2.
15/32
@bnnccng
16/32
@crackyflipside
I think there will be a lot more people farming at home.
17/32
@0x_Reef
distribution.
18/32
@planetoftheweb
When we invented the spreadsheet, did we end up with more or less people ‘running the numbers’? i think in the long run, well have more, not less. And good programmers will still be highly sought after.
19/32
@gfodor
Analogies get in the way of thinking
20/32
@realstalecoffee
…the world is going to have a lot more because everyone will be given a combine harvester
21/32
@Object_Zero_
Nope, because software isn’t constrained by available land on the input side, and nor is it constrained by satiating hunger on the output side.
22/32
@babysoftluke
have you tried using this combine harvester?
23/32
@AdmireTheWeb
Basically any job that doesn’t require use of physical craft. How are city jobs still a thing?
24/32
@Digital_Reverie
Corn subsidies when
25/32
@rajathThinks
way more land/farmer
much higher productivity
26/32
@FJ000RD
Absolutely—AI might soon replace many junior-level roles, but unlike farmland, the internet isn't limited by physical space.
Instead of fewer farmers, we'll likely see smaller, agile teams creating more diverse products.
Less factory farming, more farmers' markets.
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@BosonJoe
The growth in software companies will offset the decrease in need for programmers at any one company
28/32
@jikkujose
Though directionaly correct, I think the analogy breaks down comparing crops to software. Crops are atomic standardised primitives. Software on the other hand are super customisable, composite systems.
There is a possibility we invented printing press instead of a combine, leading to a Cambrian explosion of highly purpose built cost effective software, leading to mushrooming of super small software teams breaking up huge companies.
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@uncertainsys
A lot more food is good
30/32
@Will7533
Not quite the same... Farmers have far fewer options. Software engineers, on the other hand, have massively more flexibility. For example, they can build solo projects-like one-person "magic farms"-that generate endless kinds of value (not just food). They're not limited by land or tools, and with Al, they don't even need much capital anymore. The number of ideas they can turn into real products is basically infinite now.
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@Valuable
The analogy does have one mistake… it’s based on a fixed-growth mindset. With food there is a fixed amount of work to be done, we can’t consume unlimited food.
With software on the other hand, there is no real limit to how much software should be produced. There can always be more products and even more services.
I believe there will be more “farmers” than ever, we just made it so a single farmer can manage an entire farm all on their own is all.
As an entrepreneur I create work (which I delegate to coders), now I can create 10x as much work (I’m still going to be delegating it to coders). I have a list of hundreds of ideas, previously I could only pursue
a few a year, now I can pursue tens per quarter.
For established businesses which don’t have much room to grow, yes they will need “less farmers”… but for capitalism as a whole, there are virtually infinite products to make still. More food, but not less farmers.
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@bweidlich
Real world farmers are constrained by land use. There is near infinite digital land to be farmed, even more so now with digital combine harvesters.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
@t_blom
Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand.
We just invented the combine harvester.
The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.
2/32
@t_blom
I think this is true of doctors and lawyers too, but maybe a year or two later.
We're going to have an abundance of incredibly high-quality knowledge work at very low prices.
Instead of living off gruel, everyone's going to have bananas and kiwi fruit for pennies.
But the farmers will need to find something else to do with their time.
3/32
@Rujo_
What jobs did the farmers move to after the harvester was invented?
4/32
@t_blom
Bard.
5/32
@Maddy78988730
One myopic tweet, several coping replies. Good engagement farming, btw
6/32
@t_blom
🫡
7/32
@maceskridge
Did you have this take in 2022?
Is this take closer to being a reality now than then?
If so how and why?
8/32
@t_blom
The advances in coding models in the last 3 months are genuinely astonishing.
9/32
@inval1du5er
I don't understand why VCs are so obsessed with AI. Yes it makes no sense to write code from scratch when you have AI tools which have decent code generation for small to medium code snippet. But you can't prompt an AI to write the next gen database or next gen load balancer.
10/32
@t_blom
You can't *yet* prompt an AI to write the next gen database or next gen load balancer.
The mistake I think people make is reasoning about the capabilities of AI today, not where it's likely to be in 1-2 years.
11/32
@Pricodex
"Can someone please help me? Create a Y Combinator clone to take all their jobs!"
12/32
@t_blom
Several have tried
13/32
@thdxr
AI can already post better than this how come there's still demand for your posts
14/32
@julianjneuss
we’re entering the i, Robot era - fast.
one-man billion-dollar companies on one end, robots replacing low-end labor on the other.
you build or you’re replaced.
step 1: launch something that prints money solo.
step 2: move to a ranch, get solar, animals, weapons, and full autonomy.
step 3: wait for the collapse - while shipping v2.
15/32
@bnnccng
16/32
@crackyflipside
I think there will be a lot more people farming at home.
17/32
@0x_Reef
distribution.
18/32
@planetoftheweb
When we invented the spreadsheet, did we end up with more or less people ‘running the numbers’? i think in the long run, well have more, not less. And good programmers will still be highly sought after.
19/32
@gfodor
Analogies get in the way of thinking
20/32
@realstalecoffee
…the world is going to have a lot more because everyone will be given a combine harvester
21/32
@Object_Zero_
Nope, because software isn’t constrained by available land on the input side, and nor is it constrained by satiating hunger on the output side.
22/32
@babysoftluke
have you tried using this combine harvester?
23/32
@AdmireTheWeb
Basically any job that doesn’t require use of physical craft. How are city jobs still a thing?
24/32
@Digital_Reverie
Corn subsidies when
25/32
@rajathThinks
way more land/farmer
much higher productivity
26/32
@FJ000RD
Absolutely—AI might soon replace many junior-level roles, but unlike farmland, the internet isn't limited by physical space.
Instead of fewer farmers, we'll likely see smaller, agile teams creating more diverse products.
Less factory farming, more farmers' markets.
27/32
@BosonJoe
The growth in software companies will offset the decrease in need for programmers at any one company
28/32
@jikkujose
Though directionaly correct, I think the analogy breaks down comparing crops to software. Crops are atomic standardised primitives. Software on the other hand are super customisable, composite systems.
There is a possibility we invented printing press instead of a combine, leading to a Cambrian explosion of highly purpose built cost effective software, leading to mushrooming of super small software teams breaking up huge companies.
29/32
@uncertainsys
A lot more food is good
30/32
@Will7533
Not quite the same... Farmers have far fewer options. Software engineers, on the other hand, have massively more flexibility. For example, they can build solo projects-like one-person "magic farms"-that generate endless kinds of value (not just food). They're not limited by land or tools, and with Al, they don't even need much capital anymore. The number of ideas they can turn into real products is basically infinite now.
31/32
@Valuable
The analogy does have one mistake… it’s based on a fixed-growth mindset. With food there is a fixed amount of work to be done, we can’t consume unlimited food.
With software on the other hand, there is no real limit to how much software should be produced. There can always be more products and even more services.
I believe there will be more “farmers” than ever, we just made it so a single farmer can manage an entire farm all on their own is all.
As an entrepreneur I create work (which I delegate to coders), now I can create 10x as much work (I’m still going to be delegating it to coders). I have a list of hundreds of ideas, previously I could only pursue
a few a year, now I can pursue tens per quarter.
For established businesses which don’t have much room to grow, yes they will need “less farmers”… but for capitalism as a whole, there are virtually infinite products to make still. More food, but not less farmers.
32/32
@bweidlich
Real world farmers are constrained by land use. There is near infinite digital land to be farmed, even more so now with digital combine harvesters.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
Commented on Mon Mar 31 08:06:54 2025 UTC
I don't understand this obsession with software engineers. If an AI can actually replace them, then surely it's advanced enough to replace a ton of other office jobs as well, no?
I don't understand this obsession with software engineers. If an AI can actually replace them, then surely it's advanced enough to replace a ton of other office jobs as well, no?
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│ that’s kind of the idea behind it
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│ if they figure out how to automate programming it opens the pandora box to automating just about everything else
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│ just need the AI to train on how to properly do the job and it shouldn’t take too long to automate it
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│ the only thing that might be hard is jobs that require very skilled manual labor e.g. surgeons, dentist, etc
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│ that’s kind of the idea behind it
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│ if they figure out how to automate programming it opens the pandora box to automating just about everything else
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│ just need the AI to train on how to properly do the job and it shouldn’t take too long to automate it
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│ the only thing that might be hard is jobs that require very skilled manual labor e.g. surgeons, dentist, etc
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│ │ And to add to your point, if the AI can write the software to automate mental jobs, it can probably make robot software incredibly good too.
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GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
It’s hilarious watching the realization slowly setting in to some of the so called experts on twitter/reddit etc
[Other] I think we're witnessing the end of Graphic Desingers.
[Commentary] This new update is terrifying .
Posted on Fri Mar 28 02:58:28 2025 UTC
/r/GraphicDesigning/comments/1jllcyr/this_new_update_is_terrifying/
I know these designs have flaws but Chat GPT was released just 3 years ago. And if it evolves at the current rate it will be almost as good as seasoned designers in the next 5 to 10 years.. This new GPT 4-o image generation model can edit images, make thumbnails from sketches, static ads and a lot more. This terrifies me as a beginner in design. . I know some people might say it just replicates but what happens when it starts to come up with its own concepts. I don't think I should continue in design. I would love for someone to change my mind.
https://i.redd.it/urs30bueicre1.jpg
https://i.redd.it/3dawhlwficre1.jpg
/r/GraphicDesigning/comments/1jllcyr/this_new_update_is_terrifying/
I know these designs have flaws but Chat GPT was released just 3 years ago. And if it evolves at the current rate it will be almost as good as seasoned designers in the next 5 to 10 years.. This new GPT 4-o image generation model can edit images, make thumbnails from sketches, static ads and a lot more. This terrifies me as a beginner in design. . I know some people might say it just replicates but what happens when it starts to come up with its own concepts. I don't think I should continue in design. I would love for someone to change my mind.
https://i.redd.it/urs30bueicre1.jpg
https://i.redd.it/3dawhlwficre1.jpg
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Superstar
Step by step….it is inevitable
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What is UBI? Universal Basic Income has buy-in from Columbus, Franklin County leaders
Columbus and Franklin County are home to two Universal Basic Income programs, which is a concept that has exploded in popularity in the past decade.
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