Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-engineer-skills

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rawgabbit•1h ago

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     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.

CamperBob2•44m ago

Technically I suppose a perfectly-optimized system doesn't need operators, competent or otherwise.

ddj231•27m 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.

carabiner•25m ago

Obsession with invisible/quiet/ghosts

matherial•55m 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.

r_lee•52m ago

it seems like the entire world is in some kind of delusional trance, generating "value" with these AI slop articles and AI art

or 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

Xirdus•31m 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_•23m ago

Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.

randomblock1•20m ago

The writer is the CEO of... whatever this is: https://auraspark.com/

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.

SA9G•48m 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.

Xirdus•28m ago

It's not a design flaw, it's a feature - a built-in scapegoat for everything that goes wrong!

myko•24m ago

> The causal story is still contested, and honesty requires saying so.

This slop is embarrassing

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