Interesting article
I use AI as another tool in my work as a software architect for things I’m trying to learn about or understand. It usually gives me a good place to start.
Is AI going to kill Hifi?
I work in the tech as a software dev which helps in affording my crazy Hifi hobby. But with in just a year, I have stopped coding and now AI does most of the coding. There are these systems called agentic AI that automates to a point where you don't really need much human interaction at all.
It's getting pretty crazy. For the most part, anything a human does on the computer AI can do. And let me tell you... it's not a situation where it creates new jobs in place of old ones lost. Google has products for corporations that basically takes care of any need for anything. Ya, you might need a handful of people but not much more to be honest.
I wonder, what is this going to do to the Hifi market? If AI eliminates all these white colored jobs, how will these Hifi shops and brands make it?
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I'm an architect too, and agree on its use in what you cite. But also still do coding projects in environments I'm well familiar with (for personal and work), and A.I. is still simply awful there, for my needs. I don't care about generated code outlines, snippets, templates, and fillers; that's no meaningful savings, and I like to do it myself anyways as I progressively "feel" out a design from top to bottom. Anything I've let A.I. generate is just a blind spot until parsed - no net time savings. On bigger, more complex asks the wiring quality is typically poor, and does NOT converge to correctness upon further iterations - which is the hallmark of bad coding. If there's a silver lining to A.I., it's that it can expose how low-value most developers actually are. The problem is that it's not much if any better (yet), and executives are assigning a LOT of value to it. |
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I don't know, but AI killing HIFI?? They all talked about CD being the new standard 40 years ago, and Solid-state replacing Vacuum tubes 50 years ago. Well, they are still here, AI may make music that could change the way music is made and composed, but what people will do, is still feel nostalgic plus the followers we have today, keep TRADITIONAL music going. AI is the future, but MUSIC (specially HiFi) will always be here,
(Side note: I'm retired but I use ChatGPT and Microsoft Co-pilot for my everyday home activities and using to render stuff for 3D and deep data analysis.)
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@mulveling I think you hit on something. AI is not yet capable of building out a highly decoupled, n-tier application. All of the work prompting the bot to give you what you want is time wasted that could be spent on actually building it yourself. If the day comes where even white collar, knowledge workers are out of jobs there has been talk of universal incomes but that doesn’t sound great to me. |
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