Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4

As a C++/Networking enthusiast religiously following any new features and quirks in the language and also following several rfcs I have lost complete motivation for self improvement in terms of keeping my skills sharp due to the rapid AI takeover. I had an opportunity to see gpt4 in action on an inhouse product and I'm taken aback, it architects, generates tickets and starts writing code using feature / bug / spike branches for an embedded device a company is working on.

It can do almost everything I can do a bit better and I have years and years of domain knowledge, keep ontop of rfc changes, new languages, c++ standards etc, side projects and even occasional leetcode.

Oh well, this gold run did run on long enough - Im glad I made a bit of money from the industry but I think all these students going into CS are in for a rude awakening and we're in for a huge shift in this industry.

Maybe. It currently can't do everything so the comparison isn't person vs LLM, it's person who uses LLM vs person who doesn't. And the people who do are much more productive. So by giving up, you're making yourself obsolete faster.

Will we ever get to the point where it does everything independently? No idea. But right now your reaction is premature.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been trying to verify the claim from Microsoft and OpenAI that we would get more software in the future when the price of software would decrease. In other words, they claim that there is a supply problem for software and not a demand problem.

So far, I find it a pretty extreme statement, but it appears true here in the Netherlands. Most employees that I talk to at various industries can immediately point out one or two things which they would like to see automated. In most cases, software would replace data transfers which now occur via spreadsheets or paper.

I feel your anguish, but I think you're being defeatist.

There will still be a source of income in fixing the AI generated code. It won't be as fun though.

> It can do almost everything I can do a bit better.

Interesting. I agree it is a relatively decent boilerplate generator, but it is quite useless for anything else I've tried. How did you measure its performance?