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Counterpoint: ChatGPT will answer your question in a few moments whereas on StackOverflow, you might need up to 60 minutes for the question to be closed as "offtopic". ChatGPT never asks "why do you want to do this?"
Who even asks on stack overflow? The exercise is the generalize your issue, and then the thread from 7 years ago with your answer appears.
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The panic is needless. If one hour of design work generates $100 income, then one might assume that MidJourney/Dall-E/StableDiffusion will generate trillions of dollars, but the world doesn't work like this. What will happen is that the design jobs will transform. As you might have noticed, the AI boom will decimate the code writing jobs as well, something that the EU is behind on. Europe missed the "tech" age, but n…
> but notice how the EU is not any poorer than the USA. EU is significantly poorer than the US. Lots of different ways to measure it, but it’s a factor of roughly 1.5-2x in purchasing power parity.
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How do you know GPT4's cut off date...? I mean it says that, but it can totally be it "learned" its (supposed) cut off date from the GPT3.5 output all over the internet, right?
The model repeats it all the time "As of my knowledge cutoff date"
I'm not doubting that someday AI will able to do better than junior devs, even to lower-level of senior devs. But I doubt they'll able to replace those of higher level seniors, at least not in tens of years. Then I predict we'll get more business analysts than programmers, since managements will still need people to translate their needs to AI.
> Then I predict we'll get more business analysts than programmers Why would analysts be harder to replace than devs? The question is - how will competition influence the job market? if everyone has AI, everyone has the same powers. So how do you differentiate yourself? You put more humans in the loop, like "human plugins". You need humans to extract the most from AI.
or just build an embedding database the pulls the most semantically similar paragraphs and let it use that as a basis for the conversation.
That the draft happened to work on the video clip is more luck than something you want to bet your engineering life on.
You still need to go through an verify every character this statistical package spits out - it is not magic - it is just a probabilistic machine.
Are people asking it to generate code like “generate a random color hex code” or are they trying to use it to write code you’re going to put in production for users with access controls and various complexities? Because yeah it works fine for basic programming things but I believe you need to know wtf you’re doing when it comes to anything more complex, even something basic like some of our single endpoint services.
I am positive there are plenty of undergrads who are probably going to try to get chatgpt to write up an entire app they can sell so they don't have to try and find a job in a recession. I imagine you could get this entire process automated from the prompts to the app store submissions, maybe you could have 10,000 junk apps each giving you maybe a dollar a month in return before long, that would be a good take for pa…
> I think over time, we’ll see that what many of us really liked about building software deep down wasn’t coding, but intricately imagining the things computers could do for us and then getting them to do it. Spot on. It's a good time for existential reflection: Who would you have been hundreds or thousands of years ago? Who will you be now that technology is radically changing again? There will always be interesting…
Do you invest in a college education is that field is obliterated by the time you get out.
What about your debts if you lose your job and companies aren't hiring because they can just use AI for a 10th the cost in 6 months.
It is interesting how history repeats itself here: When google started it was just a list of links to the websites that contained your answer. As tech advanced, it increasingly started giving out the answers in google's pages. OpenAI's plugins are equally temporary. Right now they will be generating actions through APIs, but GPT4 is probably already capable of performing the same actions on your browser. All it needs…
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The panic is needless. If one hour of design work generates $100 income, then one might assume that MidJourney/Dall-E/StableDiffusion will generate trillions of dollars, but the world doesn't work like this. What will happen is that the design jobs will transform. As you might have noticed, the AI boom will decimate the code writing jobs as well, something that the EU is behind on. Europe missed the "tech" age, but n…
> but notice how the EU is not any poorer than the USA. EU is significantly poorer than the US. Lots of different ways to measure it, but it’s a factor of roughly 1.5-2x in purchasing power parity.
I'm just waiting for an "Ask HN: What are some job alternatives for people who know programming and can't get a job anymore since ChatGPT replaced us?"