The satisfaction and joy of solving things on your own is lost and many feel this way.
Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
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#42It's funny it's like those horror movies where people are trying to run away from this hive mind that's converting people. Then you see the creature latch on and control the person, their eyes go blank and stare off into space, now everything's fine. I feel that now ha, I was so against it... now I've tasted it, had it reverse engineer a bluetooth stack... I see the power. I still don't like how I didn't really do an…
In a few years this[0] is going to be the reaction towards anyone who hasn't fully assimilated their minds and wills to the machines.
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4
(spoilers for the ending of the remake to Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#43AI Luddism? It's not about hating the AI. It's about pushing back against our value being stripped away. Never thought We'd actually relate to the industrial workers this way.
>Never thought We'd actually relate to the industrial workers this way.
Programmers were always labor.
A few got wild salaries and perks and deluded themselves into thinking they stood with the elites but as far as their employers were concerned they were no different than assembly line workers or dish washers.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is the same thing
I don't think so, an AI can think for you, a spreadsheet you manually fill in, sure there are calculators you could use, some summing function. An LLM/agent could drive a spreadsheet
I think it is the same thing. It’s a tool that if you don’t adopt then you’re likely to struggle professionally.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#45Do you actually see your co-workers blowing past you in productivity?
What is driving you to feel this adoption pressure? Is it the actual results other people on your team are producing or just the discussion/hype?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#46Sometimes, I get bored. Writing code was so much fun. Trying to figure out, how to resolve the issue, and they feel the excitement, the joy when the task is done. This is now gone. I case of issue, ask the AI, tell the AI to write it. Where IS the JOY?! Some people find the joy in making the product that they were not being able to do, because of lack of the needed skills, and this is not bad. :) But for me, with my 20 years experience as back-end Java developer, I sometimes feel this big gap.
AI can produce garbage, it can produce excellent results. As long as you know what you are doing, and provide perfect specification, it can come with results, that you alone can't think of, or they can take a lot of time for 'manual' research and implementation. Some people still find issues, and don't trust, but the topic is big here: what's the model, how good is the specification, what's the used process/workflow, what are the agents, what's the technical background of the person leading the agents. Not that easy to say: AI does not work, why people want to use it after all, when it produces garbage
Life changes, customer demand it. We have no choice, and we need to adapt. Of course, there will be places that code will still be written manually. Banking, military, and other highly confidential areas have no other way to do it.
How did people feel in the beginning of the industry revolution? Have they felt the same way back then ?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#47What about "said" ("sAId" if it's not obvious enough :-D)?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
#48Do you actually see your co-workers blowing past you in productivity? What is driving you to feel this adoption pressure? Is it the actual results other people on your team are producing or just the discussion/hype?
My manager telling me I need to use it. That's the thing, I'm not behind. I know how to code already. It's just that thing of "it can be done faster, we all should use AI". It's not just me, they're rolling out this AI thing that can generate Vue code now and the front end people here some are considering quitting ha. But yeah I've gotten past it, I see the usefulness in rapidly developing prototypes in areas I don't know like I was trying to reverse-engineer the bt stack of some peripheral and was just banging out android apps trying different bluetooth profiles to figure out what commands were being used to drive this thing. I'm not an android developers o that was helpful.