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Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall
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It will be a lot of fun once the GenAI hype collapses. The bad part is always the workers paying the price for the bad decisions of the capitalists.
It's not going anywhere. This thing is for real. Even if the algos are dog shit now they are getting so much better so quickly.
It's not so much that they replace workers it's more like a mech suit for knowledge workers. Right now I think it's mostly being felt in software engineering. Obviously artists already got wrecked. You should see the video of the radiologist right now on Reddit, the algo does the job he trained 20 years for. And he's saying you don't need radiologists anymore. Like that's probably not true, but maybe now you only need one senior radiologist to review the edge cases and the rest can be done by a tech.
Anyone that touches a computer now for work is pretty much fucked. Maybe not yet but in a decade for sure. It's not so much the people already in seats, they will likely be fine. It's the people coming up when all the entry level seats are gone.
AI impact is only being felt in software engineering by developers who have to rewrite slop others created with AI.