The moving tiny rectangles framing is interesting, it gets to the heart of why I find all the anti-AI takes so difficult to comprehend. If you never made any effort to connect what you do with what value is added in real life, then it's no wonder better tooling is leaving you lost. Programming (other than code golf) has always been an implementation detail for solving problems IRL.
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#12I just wrote my own blog post thinking about this. I guess alot of us feel kind of weird right now.
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#13OP might love tech, but he sure doesn’t sound like he loved the craft.
Describing it as sitting in front of a rectangle, moving all rectangles around is so reductive.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started programming when I was eleven years old and I’m now in my 40s. I have no idea what to do with the rest of my life.
Same here. I've long had the feeling that the internet could somehow help the world, but honestly, I don't feel that's the case anymore.
jnovek, don't listen to him! Piracy is never the way.
https://youtu.be/9fUjwV4j-H0 (The Offspring - Have You Ever)
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#15I coached sports for all 3 of my kids. Great times.
One year, I had a superior athlete on my youth football team. A foot shorter than everybody else and skinny as a stick, the boy had the gift of speed. He’d run like the wind, arms and legs flailing wildly. It looked like he’d cover distance twice as fast as the other kids.
I took full advantage of the situation. Every game, I started by getting wonder boy the ball until we’d racked up enough points to be comfortable. Then the others got turns. We went the regular season undefeated and I began to convince myself I really had coaching talent. Maybe I could help out at the high school, or the local college! The sky was the limit, I was a natural.
Then came the championship game, also against an undefeated team. Their team had a wonderboy, too. He was actually faster than my speedster!
Predictably, their coach played it just like I had. Through superior speed, they took a healthy lead early in the game and never let it go.
I enjoyed all my years of youth coaching, but that year was just magical. Right up ‘till the last game. It was a memorable year.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. I've long had the feeling that the internet could somehow help the world, but honestly, I don't feel that's the case anymore.
jnovek, don't listen to him! Piracy is never the way. https://youtu.be/9fUjwV4j-H0 (The Offspring - Have You Ever)
What if the the alternatives are worse?
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#17I just wrote my own blog post thinking about this. I guess alot of us feel kind of weird right now.
Yeah, I decided to become a "professional" musician a few months ago after quitting my last tech job. I'm not amazing, but I've got some places to play, and I'm starting to give lessons, etc.
It's not an easy job, but I feel something I haven't felt in a long time as a software developer: fulfillment and contentment. Best of luck to anyone on a similar journey.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started programming when I was eleven years old and I’m now in my 40s. I have no idea what to do with the rest of my life.
Same here. I've long had the feeling that the internet could somehow help the world, but honestly, I don't feel that's the case anymore.
There is a whole lot of crap out there. But I think the Internet HAS been a game changer in lifting people out of poverty and increasing standards of living. Communication is awesome. And although there is a lot of propaganda (which there has always been) there is now also a lot of truth and counter claims. It’s no longer just the rich that have access to information (think of farmers guessing at what their crop was worth). I _hope_ AI will do similarly, but I have my doubts on that one.
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#19OP might love tech, but he sure doesn’t sound like he loved the craft. Describing it as sitting in front of a rectangle, moving all rectangles around is so reductive.
Exactly, basically then every desk or office job means sitting next to a box?
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#20The moving tiny rectangles framing is interesting, it gets to the heart of why I find all the anti-AI takes so difficult to comprehend. If you never made any effort to connect what you do with what value is added in real life, then it's no wonder better tooling is leaving you lost. Programming (other than code golf) has always been an implementation detail for solving problems IRL.
If you've never made any effort to connect what you do to the underlying mathematics, then no wonder you think it's all an "automatible" implementation detail, despite three decades of the industry trying and failing.