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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

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Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

#11
We have fired all our programmers.

However, the AI is hard to work with, it expects specific wording in order to program our code as expected.

We have hired people with expertise in the specific language needed to transmit our specifications to the AI with more precision.

Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

#12
Many people are missing the point. The strategy for AI usage is not a long-term strategy to make the world more productive. If companies can save a buck this year, companies will do it. Period.

The average manager has short-term goals that needs to fulfill, and if they can use AI to fulfill them they will do it, future be damned.

To reign in on long-term consequences has always been part of government and regulations. So, this kind of articles are useful but should be directed to elected officials and not the industry itself.

Finally, what programmers need is what all workers need. Unionization, collective bargaining, social safety nets, etc. It will protect programmers from swings in the job market as it will do it for everybody else that needs a job to make ends meet.

Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

#15

>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online

"Destroyed" is not the same as "annihilated from exhistence". Twitter is a shell of its former self.

Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

#17
post #4

Has there been any company so far that has fired 100% of their programmers to replace them with AI?

D̴i̴d̴n̴t̴ ̴f̴i̴r̴e̴ ̴a̴n̴y̴o̴n̴e̴ ̴p̴e̴r̴ ̴s̴e̴,̴ ̴b̴u̴t̴ ̴I̴ ̴a̴m̴ ̴a̴ ̴s̴o̴l̴o̴ ̴d̴e̴v̴e̴l̴o̴p̴e̴r̴ ̴a̴n̴d̴ ̴I̴ ̴c̴a̴n̴ ̴d̴o̴ ̴t̴h̴e̴ ̴w̴o̴r̴k̴ ̴o̴f̴ ̴2̴ ̴p̴e̴o̴p̴l̴e̴ ̴n̴o̴w̴ Edit: I am a solo developer and I have to work half the time only now.

Could have been "I am a solo developer and I have to work half the time only now."

Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

#18

>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online

Twitter is, in fact, not online. It redirects to something called X, which is not Twitter.
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