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The People Refusing to Use AI

by afaxwebgirl on 5/8/25, 2:38 PM with 10 comments

  • by rorylaitila on 5/8/25, 9:35 PM

    I'm 20 year full stack developer who also does a lot of sales. So I have somewhat of a unique experience in both the technical and human sides of AI use. I use AI quite liberally for development, research, and troubleshooting. But on the sales side of things, I don't like to use AI beyond auto-complete. As a technician, I see it as a great tool. When it comes to selling to other people, I agree with the sentiments in the article. Why would I want AI to replace me? It literally makes no sense. The purpose of me selling is to sell to people that want to buy from people. If AI can do my sales for me, then great, that is about equivalent to a shopping cart, and the product is self service. So what I mostly disagree with is the impersonation of people.

    In the sales/growth/outbound world, everyone is tripping over themselves to setup AI emailers, dialers, chatters, impersonating people. But I don't think that will give them the edge they think. I'm betting on relationship sales for the future so I'm working on (https://humancrm.io) as my take. I think genuine human connections are going to increase in comparative advantage.

  • by RadiozRadioz on 5/8/25, 4:48 PM

    We have lost a great deal of artistry in calligraphy, and no doubt a printing press uses more energy than a pencil, but we can't really stop Pandora's box one it's opened. Regardless of how people feel about it, it's here, it's cheaper, so here it will remain. As defeatist and cynical as it sounds, we might as well give in and try to be on the side making the money.

    Ms Adams' story in the article reflects this, in some respect unfortunate, reality.

  • by DrSiemer on 5/8/25, 5:30 PM

    I think articles like this don't garner a lot of attention, because why would anybody even bother to engage? If you don't see this unstoppable steam train for what it is, well, enjoy your screaming in the void.

    We can all agree the current generation of AI lacks humanity, but we are not going to stop using it because of that. Would be nice if we can get the energy cost down though.

  • by budududuroiu on 5/9/25, 12:22 AM

    Generative AI taking off (especially LLMs) imo is a symptom of how full of bullshit jobs western economies have become. Nothing of value is created, we’re just “scamming” each other over and over and calling it GDP growth.