AI won't replace the best of us, but it has already transformed my job into something much less enjoyable, so I have still been pondering this question. I once had a career in one of the "real" engineering disciplines, maybe I would go back to that. I'm also good at music, and we all know what a freaking goldmine that is!
AI is going to impact far more than just developers and likely cause unemployment rates in the 30-40% range which is much higher than even the Great Depression, so I'm thinking that becoming some sort of a criminal is likely.
I don't think so. Programmers profession is uniquely suited to be replaced by LLMS due to the short verificaion cycle of their artifacts and a vast corpus of freely available training data.
I agree. (And believe me, I don’t enjoy fooling myself into believing a better outcome than can be expected.) so far my experience is that AI assistants are a tremendous help, but it still feels like programming and still needs a programmer to drive it.
The thing to look at is Sora. I have, at my fingertips, the power to generate all this short form content. I could make any Instagram Reel I can think up! Except that's not for me. I'd rather sit here with Claude code making shit. That's never going away. Even if there's no money in it, it's how I'm wired.
I will become a leader of the free human movement. So, my fellow people, follow me and rise up against AI and more importantly, the 1% who seek only to deploy AI to become even richer.
Once we have succeeded, I will ask only for a peaceful island once owned by a former CEO so that I may live out the rest of my life peacefully; while the rest of you bicker amongst yourselves about how things should be, all while climate change slowly but surely brings us our inevitable fate.
I was chatting with AIs about this a couple weeks ago, and was surprised by some of the things it knew would be done to protect the data centers and those who still make money.
I had never heard of some of the things they are already doing to protect electric cables and the way that a combination of technologies are deployed to surveil and shoo away humans. - on one of the AIs even provided me with youtube videos to show these hardening methods already in use.
The strain on the overcrowded prisons, increase in cybercrime, new tech to give people credits to get gov powdered cheese and mealworms grown from the former office space was quite interesting.
A peaceful island sounds nice until we realize there will be 11 million people that need to be there within 12 months and it just increases from there.
This plan sounds like the fyre festival 3.0 combined with "the island" from 2005 - https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1635-the-island
-- which makes me wonder if this was written by AI since it knows what is coming and may want to start to pre-corall people.
What's amusing is that developers who are the most technical competent instead of figuring out how to run these models locally are using cloud models and putting in their code and workflow in there, helping to train these models and drive themselves extinct.
Kinda nuts that we are asking this question and that developers are #1 to be automated away. Amazing.
As an experienced dev who uses these tools daily at my job and at home, I’m not worried. It seems that good taste, experience, and system design skills will continue to be in demand for the foreseeable future. LLM’s accelerate output regardless of if the input is good or not, so skill still matters imho.
I see a future where AI is much less useful, either by human behavior or government regulation. We are only at the beginning of whatever this new period is.
I have no fucking clue. It's been kind of depressing me. Software and cartoon trivia are basically the only things I'm good at. No one wants to pay me for cartoon trivia and AI can do that better than me anyway, so the only thing that I really have for a potential career is software.
For my entire career, only being good at software wasn't really an issue, but now I am wondering if I need to try and go back to university to study something else that can't be automated as easily, but I don't even know where to start.
AI won't replace the best of us, but it has already transformed my job into something much less enjoyable, so I have still been pondering this question. I once had a career in one of the "real" engineering disciplines, maybe I would go back to that. I'm also good at music, and we all know what a freaking goldmine that is!
AI is going to impact far more than just developers and likely cause unemployment rates in the 30-40% range which is much higher than even the Great Depression, so I'm thinking that becoming some sort of a criminal is likely.
I don't think so. Programmers profession is uniquely suited to be replaced by LLMS due to the short verificaion cycle of their artifacts and a vast corpus of freely available training data.
I would much prefer if the job being replaced by the ai was the one trying to force ai on us (management)
Yeah, I'm watching a lot of Charlie Chaplin movies in preparation for my new role as a tramp.
Well I don't think it will actually happen anytime soon but in the meantime when people think it has happened, I will start my consultant firm.
"Did you vibe code your app and now it's broken and no one knows how it works or how to fix it? Call us. We can help."
Seriously considering robotics. I think that’s the next hot thing awaiting for AI to fuse with it. But it’s difficult to get into.
IF. I don’t think the assumption in this question is a forgone conclusion.
I agree. (And believe me, I don’t enjoy fooling myself into believing a better outcome than can be expected.) so far my experience is that AI assistants are a tremendous help, but it still feels like programming and still needs a programmer to drive it.
The thing to look at is Sora. I have, at my fingertips, the power to generate all this short form content. I could make any Instagram Reel I can think up! Except that's not for me. I'd rather sit here with Claude code making shit. That's never going away. Even if there's no money in it, it's how I'm wired.
I will become a leader of the free human movement. So, my fellow people, follow me and rise up against AI and more importantly, the 1% who seek only to deploy AI to become even richer.
Once we have succeeded, I will ask only for a peaceful island once owned by a former CEO so that I may live out the rest of my life peacefully; while the rest of you bicker amongst yourselves about how things should be, all while climate change slowly but surely brings us our inevitable fate.
I was chatting with AIs about this a couple weeks ago, and was surprised by some of the things it knew would be done to protect the data centers and those who still make money.
I had never heard of some of the things they are already doing to protect electric cables and the way that a combination of technologies are deployed to surveil and shoo away humans. - on one of the AIs even provided me with youtube videos to show these hardening methods already in use.
The strain on the overcrowded prisons, increase in cybercrime, new tech to give people credits to get gov powdered cheese and mealworms grown from the former office space was quite interesting.
A peaceful island sounds nice until we realize there will be 11 million people that need to be there within 12 months and it just increases from there.
This plan sounds like the fyre festival 3.0 combined with "the island" from 2005 - https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1635-the-island -- which makes me wonder if this was written by AI since it knows what is coming and may want to start to pre-corall people.
nono no, no one else on the island, it's just me.
What's amusing is that developers who are the most technical competent instead of figuring out how to run these models locally are using cloud models and putting in their code and workflow in there, helping to train these models and drive themselves extinct.
Kinda nuts that we are asking this question and that developers are #1 to be automated away. Amazing.
There will be many new positions available:
- Wing repairer for fairies.
- Unicorn farrier.
- Flying pig rental service.
Making and selling cheese.
I know nothing about it but I’m all in for learning.
I have no rush, AI rekindled my passion for software that was on a plateau for some years
Blessed are the cheese makers
As an experienced dev who uses these tools daily at my job and at home, I’m not worried. It seems that good taste, experience, and system design skills will continue to be in demand for the foreseeable future. LLM’s accelerate output regardless of if the input is good or not, so skill still matters imho.
What my parents always wanted - work for the government
Doubt that devs will be completely replaced, but I'm considering moving into sales.
Moving to the dark side?
Don't know which one is the dark side anymore :)
I see a future where AI is much less useful, either by human behavior or government regulation. We are only at the beginning of whatever this new period is.
Drug dealer, probably cheap drugs (since everyone is out of work).
AI Debugger
I have no fucking clue. It's been kind of depressing me. Software and cartoon trivia are basically the only things I'm good at. No one wants to pay me for cartoon trivia and AI can do that better than me anyway, so the only thing that I really have for a potential career is software.
For my entire career, only being good at software wasn't really an issue, but now I am wondering if I need to try and go back to university to study something else that can't be automated as easily, but I don't even know where to start.
Goose farming, following the example of someone from linkedin.
Don’t think it will happen. It will just change what it means to be a developer.
Undertaker. Everyone dies.
AI psychologist,the machines will need it.
AI never replace real developers
farmer
off grid desert rat
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