If you stop now you will get replaced by gpt. It will be years if not decades before gpt will replace the last programmer, but it won't be long before it will replace the bad programmers.
Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
11–20 of 177 posts
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#12[dead]
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#13AlphaZero ended human interest in Chess too didn't it.
If I were being paid to win chess matches I would certainly worry.
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#14I have the opposite take... there's a program I use (and ties me to Windows) called WikidPad[1], it's a personal Wiki, written in Python. The win32 version works great, and because it's compiled (back in 2018), the binary should do so forever. The Linux distribution is source based, and broke when WxWidgets changed the name/nature of some key parameters to its calls. I'm a Pascal programmer, not a Python programmer..…
> his is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry.
C++ versus Pascal mindset. :)
> This is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry.
Yes and no. It did not replace the good accountants who actually orchestrated the whole department, but it got rid of a lot of the low-level grunt work.
AI-supported coding autopilots seem to go in the same direction: The junior devs whose whole job it is to translate architectural and design specifications into excessively verbose boilerplate code will struggle to survive, but the software architects above them will find a new means through which to express the analytical thinking, process planning and understanding of complex dependencies that they're paid for.
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#15If you stop now you will get replaced by gpt. It will be years if not decades before gpt will replace the last programmer, but it won't be long before it will replace the bad programmers.
OP is a depressed troll.
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#16WWJD (What Would Jordan [Peterson] Do?), OP?
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#17I think it’s going to be a great enabler. A lot of people who now work for companies will be able to make use of the new tools to build their own companies or products. Suddenly one experienced developer can move more quickly and even get output in parts they can read but not write fluently (some backend person being enabled to create Frontend stuff now).
Coupled with the marketing language spit out and graphics being generated by AI as well, I think we are going to see an explosion of 1-person-startups soon.
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#18I have the opposite take... there's a program I use (and ties me to Windows) called WikidPad[1], it's a personal Wiki, written in Python. The win32 version works great, and because it's compiled (back in 2018), the binary should do so forever. The Linux distribution is source based, and broke when WxWidgets changed the name/nature of some key parameters to its calls. I'm a Pascal programmer, not a Python programmer..…
> his is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry. C++ versus Pascal mindset. :) > This is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry. Yes and no. It did not replace the good accountants who actually orchestrated the w…
I wonder how can the future architect get there, if going through the junior stages is suddenly not an option anymore. Because those all-understanding software architects don't just pop into existence.
Re: Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
#19Faster code writing still requires people who know what the code should do, what it should look like, etc, like you if it's true what you say you're capable of. It sounds like you sharpened the right skills: how the code should work, and didn't waste time, ie. practicing being faster with a keyboard. Now you're more a developer, and less a typist, that's all. We still use engineers to design bridges, despite much of the actual building being done by machinery, process, and unskilled labor, because we don't trust a cement mixer to tell us how the bridge should function.