Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

(spectrum.ieee.org)

23 points by rbanffy1 hour ago

5 comments

matherial50 minutes ago
This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but every article from them that I've seen in the past year is like that and I really don't understand what's the long game.
- randomblock115 minutes ago
 The writer is the CEO of... whatever this is: <a href="https://auraspark.com/" rel="nofollow">https://auraspark.com/</a>Completely slopped up website, zero human touch. I would even go so far as to call them a hyprocrite, for getting AI to do all that for them instead of, you guessed it, training a junior engineer to do it.
- r_lee47 minutes ago
 it seems like the entire world is in some kind of delusional trance, generating "value" with these AI slop articles and AI artor maybe it's just that I can't imagine people actually putting their time into reading this all when they pick up on the LLMisms. maybe they'll just stop reading these articles altogether
 - lightandlight8 minutes ago
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 - Xirdus26 minutes ago
 With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth.The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.
 - _dark_matter_18 minutes ago
 Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.
rawgabbit59 minutes ago
Quote:<pre><code> A perfectly optimized system that produces incompetent operators is not optimized at all. It has simply moved its failure mode somewhere the spreadsheet can’t see it.</code></pre>
- ddj23122 minutes ago
 The second sentence is an ai generation tell. Idk why ai always tries these sort of “wow you” sentences. The tone is pretty off putting once you’ve experienced it enough times.
 - carabiner20 minutes ago
 Obsession with invisible/quiet/ghosts
- CamperBob239 minutes ago
 Technically I suppose a perfectly-optimized system doesn't need operators, competent or otherwise.
SA9G43 minutes ago
The nuclear powerplant operator dilemma reminds me of the design flaw in "self-driving" cars that want a human to take control when things go wrong. A human who is not driving is not paying attention and lacks the spatial awareness to take immediate control in a critical situation... Then again, quite a few people don't seem to be paying attention while driving. Sigh.
- Xirdus23 minutes ago
  It's not a design flaw, it's a feature - a built-in scapegoat for everything that goes wrong!
myko19 minutes ago
> The causal story is still contested, and honesty requires saying so.This slop is embarrassing