Today I saw two posts that could not be more opposite, and of course it's about AI.

First up is Barry O'Reilly on LinkedIn:

There must have been a point when people in the tobacco industry began to realise what they’d done. One by one, workers must have woken up one day and realised that their industry was bad for the world.

The sloppocalypse just did that for me. The worry isn’t that we’ll be replaced by AI, it’s that ethically we won’t be able to work for this industry anymore.

Next is Charity Majors:

Today, it’s very clear to me that the center of gravity has shifted from cloud/automation workflows to AI/generation workflows, and that the agentic revolution has only just begun. That toddler is heading off to school. With a loaded gun.

I don’t know when exactly that bit flipped in my head, I only know that it did. And as soon as it did, I felt like the last person on earth to catch on. I can barely connect with my own views from eleven months ago.

Having just finished listening to Empire of AI, while I acknowledge Charity is probably right, I am very much leaning towards Barry.