AI asking fundamental questions
It started many years ago with a dream – a dream about a universal automaton. Many people were involved in its invention: Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Conrad Zuse, and many more. John von…
Why we need resilience more than ever
AI is eating IT. At least this is how it looks at the moment. AI everywhere, in all stages of software development as well as part of the solutions, including SaaS and COTS. The promise and widespread AI application pattern:
Reassessing a fear-mongering phrase
How often have you heard a phrase like “If you do not become highly proficient in AI/LLMs/Agentic AI now, you will be left behind!” in recent months? Probably more often than you were able (or willing) to count. And it does not stop there. If we do not immediately learn the stuff as advised by the person uttering such phrases, we will lose our jobs and never get a job again. Our existences will be destroyed. And this will be solely our fault because we did not listen and…
Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work
In the previous post, we discussed several observations, Lisanne Bainbridge made in her much-noticed paper “The ironies of automation”, she published in 1983 and what they mean for the current “white-collar” work automation attempts leveraging LLMs and AI agents based on LLMs, still…
Some (well-known) consequences of automating work
In 1983, Lisanne Bainbridge wrote the much-noticed paper “The ironies of automation”. Being a cognitive psychologist, she discussed some counter-intuitive effects of automation in her paper. She called those effects ironies and paradoxes, providing precise definitions for both terms:
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