6 posts tagged with "AI"

There's still a lot of guff floating about out there about whether the AI bubble is going to burst[^1] , whether AI coding is "good enough yet" (see my previous comments on my previous comments on vibe coding), and whether AI is the silver bullet solution to your problem.

I saw a great post by a former R/GA colleague on LinkedIn today which said that "if you think a specific new technology is the solution to your problem then you probably don't understand the problem enough", and I am minded to agree.

I turn 50 today.

The reason I mention this is because I have seen a lot of people — mostly on LinkedIn — making dire prognostications that anyone over that age will never work in IT again if they're not currently in work, and that gave me pause for thought.

Given some of my previous comments about vibe coding, I found myself taking a different track and questioning some assumptions (and biases) over the last week and wanted to capture a bit more nuance around the topic.

I have been thinking a lot about AI recently — probably because every other post on LinkedIn is some kind of regurgitated AI think-piece, and every unsolicited email at work seems to revolve around AI strategy — and what it means for our current working practices.

There's an awful lot of buzz at the moment about chatbots, conversational interfaces, and digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa - it seems like there is a steady march of AI into our lives, but is that a good thing?

For marketers and advertisers it may appear to be he beginnings of a brave new world of opportunities to deliver messages to consumers in new and "innovative" ways, but that is a fundamentally naive approach.

In the rush to be part of this brave new world it is this very simple question that is overlooked - "what is the value exchange"?

It seems like everyone is talking about AI at the moment, from your humble correspondent to Barack Obama