It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
If we only used AI for codegen, this probably wouldn’t be much of an issue. Those cat videos take more energy than building a complete app. Also, it’s all pretty new and the newest tech 40 years ago would have filled a warehouse and had the computational power of a potato, but here we are now. I expect we’ll get more efficient at it and in the ways we use it. And there’s already a huge worldwide shift in energy capture (America aside…)
If we only used AI for codegen, this probably wouldn’t be much of an issue. Those cat videos take more energy than building a complete app. Also, it’s all pretty new and the newest tech 40 years ago would have filled a warehouse and had the computational power of a potato, but here we are now. I expect we’ll get more efficient at it and in the ways we use it. And there’s already a huge worldwide shift in energy capture (America aside…)