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Post by skybrian »

nivenkos wrote: post #239
hu3 wrote: post #130

Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall. Soon coding without an AI will feel as antiquated as delivering food by horse. And resistance is futile because markets will punish those who refuse. We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. And…

UBI is a half-measure, we need democratic, communal control of industry.

We do have that for many government projects and they often don’t go well, so I’m not sure what improvements you’re expecting?

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Post by mkaic »

RivieraKid wrote: post #227
mkaic wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would something smarter than us be our pet?

Because we will have full control over it. It will do what we ask. The AI has no motivation or personality, it's just a tool used by humans.

And what if a human tells it to control other people? What if a rogue third party terrorist group replicates OpenAI's latest and greatest in the year 2030, but explicitly tasks it with hurting people instead of helping them?

I don't agree with "we will have full control over it." I'm more concerned about how much control it will have over us.

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Post by bastardoperator »

ilovetux wrote: post #131
ren_engineer wrote: post #13

Microsoft really seems to have wrapped up the developer ecosystem with VS Code and the Github acquisition combined with OpenAI. They are going to have an absurd amount of data to optimize their models thanks to that, not sure how other AI focused companies can overcome that have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be and potentially move away from their ecosystem. Credit t…

> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be Microsoft has historically been anti-opensource, but not anti-developer. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter and in my experience throughout the 90s and early 2000s their developer ecosystem (aka Visual Studio) has really been first-class. I am not a fan of Microsoft because they have been openly hostile to open source,…

Is there anyone doing more for open source today? I hear you, but it's clear they've changed that tune dramatically.

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Post by causi »

goldfeld wrote: post #303
hu3 wrote: post #130

Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall. Soon coding without an AI will feel as antiquated as delivering food by horse. And resistance is futile because markets will punish those who refuse. We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. And…

Almost a decade ago I jumped ship as a programmer for several reasons, and since '18 I am definitely not coding at all. Friends and family have wondered much at my path and letting go of what has become the one promised career for ever larger parts of the population, and making my inroads into the arts and literature, finally settling a bit with the profession of writing on many capacities. Now I look back more gadly…

I think the 10x will become a sad concrete things, with salaries crunching and a team lead expected to take up the work of teams being fired, resorting to AI minions. It's a crazy tables have turned situation.

I don't really see that it's sad. Imagine truly democratized programming. Not like how the refrigerator did the ice man, but in how Youtube and smartphone cameras did video production. A rising tide that lifts all boats and can give absolutely anyone a taste of what they could achieve with a little effort.

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Post by naillo »

goldfeld wrote: post #303
hu3 wrote: post #130

Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall. Soon coding without an AI will feel as antiquated as delivering food by horse. And resistance is futile because markets will punish those who refuse. We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. And…

Almost a decade ago I jumped ship as a programmer for several reasons, and since '18 I am definitely not coding at all. Friends and family have wondered much at my path and letting go of what has become the one promised career for ever larger parts of the population, and making my inroads into the arts and literature, finally settling a bit with the profession of writing on many capacities. Now I look back more gadly…

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Post by symlinkk »

Someone1234 wrote: post #149

Just to save others from wasting their time (and free trial): The Copilot extension in full Visual Studio (i.e. NOT VS Code) is super terrible, broken, and buggy. It is so bad it is worse than nothing (literally, it can make Visual Studio lag out). But don't take my word for it, read the reviews: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.c... This is the polar opposite of VS Code where it works super…

Visual Studio is a legacy product. You should be switching to VSCode.

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Post by c7DJTLrn »

I can't believe how quickly things are moving. In five years we're either going to look back on this as a hysterical hype bubble, or one of biggest innovations in the 21st century.

I have been skeptical of Copilot from the beginning, but it's becoming clear that I'lll be left in the dust if I don't try at least try it.

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Post by qwertox »

> ChatGPT-like experience in your editor with GitHub Copilot Chat

The best thing about VS Code is how you can click on the tab of the current editor and drag it out into a new self-contained window, so that you can move it to another monitor. This is such an optimal use of screen real estate.

I will drag out Copilot from the main VS Code window to my right monitor, have the main editor in the center monitor, and Google / GitHub / API docs on the left monitor.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

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