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Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by methusala8 »

prad9104 wrote: post #17
ninethirty wrote: post #7

ChatGPT expects to have $1B in revenue in 2024. This revenue is going to come from people building businesses around it (<-- possibly you? this would require programming knowledge obv.). Honestly, I think a person could make a living as a prompt-engineer right now. You can't fight it, you have to lean into it.

What's a prompt engineer? Can you share some reading material?

Prompt engineer : Someone who is quite good at providing the right prompts in order to guide ai towards the solution that is needed.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by deafpolygon »

AI will make trivial stuff easier to work with, so we can focus on the harder stuff. This isn't going to hit critical mass for at least another decade, so you have time.

> built some pretty fun and cool things like chess engines, video games, 3d renderers from scratch and competed in my national computing contest with a solid placement

You're already ahead of 99% of the folks out there. Learn AI, learn ML, get into that now and you'll remain ahead of the curve.

I don't think AI is going to be quite that ground-breaking for at least another 20 years. It's impressive now, yes, but until it's on every device running under every OS as part of a commercial package, it's not going to disrupt anything.

If anything it'll be like the transition to cloud computing. Jobs will change. The disrupting factor will be that a good portion of data processing jobs will no longer need bodies to fill it. Middle management in IT will be next. Programmers and sysadmins will be safe for some time to come.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by zactato »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #9
WantonQuantum wrote: post #5

I'm a software developer/engineer with 25 years experience. The coding aspect of software development is actually a very small part of the overall job. I don't expect AI to significantly change my job in the least.

I wonder, can you ask ChatGPT to write a compelling argument convincing a room full of senior software engineers that they need to switch to a new technology? Or to write a series of Jira tickets to complete a feature?

If ChatGPT can write JIRA tickets then I will accept the robot overlords. That is a burden worth more than my humanity.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by __pache__ »

fragmede wrote: post #16

If you want to get into tech, get into the ML space. Teach yourself StableDiffusion. like, really dig into it and learn how it all works from start to finish. The model was released so it's open source(ish) but most importantly learning about that will let you look behind the curtain, and realize the pieces that go into, say ChatGPT. it may seem like a magic but OpenAI's published papers on the underlying technologie…

I think this is the wrong move. You're not going to compete with a PhD. Instead focus on the long tail, keep learning frontend or whatever you like, and put a pretty face in front of the AI. Make awesome stuff the best way you can, don't worry about matrix math all of the sudden if it's not already your thing.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by jalapenos »

Learn strong communication skills.

I come from an automation background, and work as a tech lead, and I have absolutely no concerns about AI. Most people who worry about it don't fully understand what it is, and that it's ultimately just tools, albeit ones with more difficult to understand internals.

Nevertheless, strong communication skills are leverage on almost anything you do. That includes programming. They also can't be surpassed by AI in a non-apocalyptic world.

You can start by joining Toastmasters, and/or Rotary.

Communication skills can be further improved by understanding human psychology. If you're able to quickly detect personality disorders and other psychological minefields you'll encounter in the workplace, it'll bode well for you.

Again, no machine can understand a human better than another human, in anything short of an apocalyptic future.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by osigurdson »

__pache__ wrote: post #24
fragmede wrote: post #16

If you want to get into tech, get into the ML space. Teach yourself StableDiffusion. like, really dig into it and learn how it all works from start to finish. The model was released so it's open source(ish) but most importantly learning about that will let you look behind the curtain, and realize the pieces that go into, say ChatGPT. it may seem like a magic but OpenAI's published papers on the underlying technologie…

I think this is the wrong move. You're not going to compete with a PhD. Instead focus on the long tail, keep learning frontend or whatever you like, and put a pretty face in front of the AI. Make awesome stuff the best way you can, don't worry about matrix math all of the sudden if it's not already your thing.

This person is a teenager. They can of course get a PhD.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by AussieWog93 »

>Tldr: what would you do if you were an ambitious teenager interested in tech entering a world soon to be dominated by large language models and other generative machine learning algorithms?

An interesting topic for a science fiction novel, but that doesn't describe your experience today.

I studied ML at a PhD level. A lot of "neat tricks", but a whole lot of issues preventing it from taking over basic tasks like driving (let alone programming).

Just keep doing what you're doing and adapt to the AI revolution when it actually happens.

It's been "just 10 years away" since the 1960's. :)

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by black_13 »

osigurdson wrote: post #26

I suggest starting a company. It seems that there is no better time to be an entrepreneur as you will be able to amplify your talents so greatly with AI. If that isn't your thing, suggest taking the academic route and get a PhD in machine learning.

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