Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me

If you have the willpower to do that I wouldn't worry that much. Maybe use the extra productivity ChatGPT gives you to learn some skills that LLM-AIs will take a long, long time to learn if ever: specialization. Industrial programming, scientific programming, etc. One of the reasons I'm not worried about AI is that I work with machines so specialized there's maybe half a dozen people on the planet with my skillset and almost none of it exists on the internet at all.

You need to be more concerned about boring, usual tech industry ageism doing you in than an AI taking your job.

- when the code the model spat out was wrong, how did you fix it? Did you identify it was wrong before you ran it?

- what level of complexity was there in the code, in terms of "business logic" or complexity of the requirements you fed into it?

I ask these two questions because I am not sure an AI will get to the level of experience you have in the near future in _generating_ complex applications, let alone being able to reflect on why its own creations are wrong, fixing them, deploying some output, and then explaining the changes?

A human is going to be in the loop in these cases for a long time, and I'm assuming part or all of your decades of experience has been spent understanding quite how poor people are at explaining their requirements. What if you thought of generative AI as a tool you can learn to utilise to do your job more effectively?

Over the course of a few years, dentists began using 3D scanners to digitally scan patient impressions, which allowed them to email the scans to my dad's dental lab (previously he'd have to drive to each dentist and pick it up in person).

Then, 1-2 years later, they started emailing the 3D scan to a company in China who would do the same work as my dad, and then mail back the finished product directly to the dentist from China. And of course the Chinese dental labs did this at half the price my dad was charging.

He went out of business and ended up retiring early at 55. The "retiring early" explanation was a great one, but the real reason he retired was innovation hit his industry and made it easy for dentists to outsource crown/bridge manufacturing to China. He works for a property maintenance company now for $20/hr, mostly as a way to fill his time (he's doing fine financially).

Most of the comments here are telling you that you'll be ok, and I hope you will be. But the reality is innovation causes disruption in many fields/industries. If you're in the path of disruption, you have to be willing to quickly adapt and learn to live alongside it rather than fight it.

Also remember you're not alone. Technology has been displacing jobs for decades. Life is about learning and adapting. As long as you commit to adapting quickly, learning new skills as necessary and being open to different types of jobs, you should be fine.