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I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by sibeliuss »

honorious wrote: post #9

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

Sitting around, watching claude-code 'think', hitting y, hitting enter, adding a little prompt context, giving it hints, etc, day after day, hour after hour. So exciting.

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by alchemyzach »

honorious wrote: post #9

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by draw_down »

When I started my career 20 years ago, I thought "they" would figure out how to get a computer to do my job pretty soon. Coders are expensive after all. And I figured I'd just go walk into the woods or something after that; I had no plan for what to do. This is the only thing I'm good at and can make money doing.

Well, it's been 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. Perhaps this will be the year! But not yet.

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by fifilura »

honorious wrote: post #9

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

Me too!

I get it that coding is like playing boardgames and that might be fun.

But solving real problems (with the help of AI or whatever other tool is most appropriate, maybe and IDE or a degugger) is where I want to be!

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by SlightlyLeftPad »

neilv wrote: post #10

The closing: > So the next step in my career is going to be talking to people about great AI products that are being built and helping them figure out if they'd find these products useful. If you're building a great product and would like somebody to tell people about it, please don't hesitate to reach out! So, the blog post up to that point, about how AI will wipe out jobs, could be an audition for selling AI produc…

If you’re replaced by robots, build robots.

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by urbandw311er »

alchemyzach wrote: post #13
honorious wrote: post #9

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good

This a million times over. Although demand for this layer of jobs will obviously be hugely squeezed in this future we are all discussing.

Re: I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

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Post by vunderba »

honorious wrote: post #9

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun? To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

You and literally everyone else. If ideas are "a dime a dozen", and the hard part (aka building the implementation) is trivially solved by LLMs then it won't be you competing against a handful of similar businesses, it'll be you against TEN THOUSAND.

The ultimate end result of lowering the barrier to entry down to zero is that making money on bespoke software will be about as commercially viable as making money writing music.

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