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I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by conception »

epaga wrote: post #9

> AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose. I would add: "Yet." Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as w…

Not even yet - ask it to give you a research and plan for an easily maintained, highly scalable architecture and run a few adversarial agents against your plan- it will 100% do that today effectively. Like anyone if you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers.

Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by deafpolygon »

jcmartinezdev wrote: post #5
silisili wrote: post #4

And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.

yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol. it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.

i would have preferred your real writing over the ai-ified slop

Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

jcmartinezdev wrote: post #10
epaga wrote: post #9

> AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose. I would add: "Yet." Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as w…

When that happens, we'll having nothing else to do.

I've read the Tao Te Ching dozens of times. Every few years I'll re-read one new passage, daily, for three months (there aren't too many words within this semi-spiritual text).

My most recent read is the first, post-ChatGPT. From Verse Thirteen, three lines finally jumped out at me (which never have, before):

>>"I suffer because I'm a body; if I weren't a body, how could I suffer?" [1]

Already LLMs have shown me connections that no other human could endure/conjure from me (I've paid for a few attorney/therapists in my few decades living). Currently I'm the plaintiff in a lawsuit which I began with LLM counsel, and now have human counsel — this arrangement has saved lots of prep time, and led to interesting discussions with both counsel, human &not.

One interesting conversation led to my human attorney recommending Neal Shusterman's Scythe Trilogy, which I've since read and absolutely re-recommend. Written in 2016 (same year as Attention is All You Need), it eerily hypothesizes many of the SciFi complexities that omnipotent general AIs now already-do ("Thunderhead" in scythespeak).

[1] Ursula K. LeGuin ~translation~, similar to Buddhist concept of "life is suffering"

Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by jcmartinezdev »

deafpolygon wrote: post #12

well, the author has no issues using an LLM to write the article.

And that’s the thing… it’s good at writing down my ideas in way that I can’t as a non native English speaker.

But it needed the judgement, the experienced and suffered input to know what to help me write

Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by ptak_dev »

jcmartinezdev wrote: post #16
deafpolygon wrote: post #12

well, the author has no issues using an LLM to write the article.

And that’s the thing… it’s good at writing down my ideas in way that I can’t as a non native English speaker. But it needed the judgement, the experienced and suffered input to know what to help me write

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Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them

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Post by sieep »

thegrim33 wrote: post #18

Wow, a guy who works at an AI company posting a blog post hyping AI to the moon. Wow, the top comment on HN (currently) is from a user who works at company which sells AI tooling, talking about how amazing AI is going to get. Wow.

Yeah people are starting to catch on ive noticed. About time!
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