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Expertise in the age of AI

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Re: Expertise in the age of AI

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Post by sailingcode »

ygouzerh wrote: post #35
hopelessluca wrote: post #10

Sorry for the off-topic comment, but what happened to the front page? At the time I’m writing this, 11/30 submissions are related to AI. Maybe my comment is cliché too, but I’m honestly tired of all the AI stuff.

Everyone is quite worried of their job. Many of us have made coding/IT our personality, what we were proud of, what the society made us feel valued. It's a big change in life... and there is no solution yet. So everyone feels the needs to talk about it, to either get rid of this anxiety by ranting or trying to prove that it would be an opportunity, or a non-event depending on the point of view, etc

The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.

Re: Expertise in the age of AI

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Post by kevinrineer »

thr1owaway9621 wrote: post #75

> Currently, the level of computing intuition needed to additively prompt the coding agents sits at roughly 5 years’ experience level. Today’s seniors were lucky enough to get paid to build their computing intuition, but the gap grows as coding agents continue to improve. I am struggling to interpret what they mean by "gap". Gap between what two things? The gap between juniors and seniors? The gap between ${AI + 0 YO…

The referenced gap is the supposed numeracy of developers 5 years ago and developers today, whether they be junior or senior developers.

There is a strong downward trend toward decreasing numeracy in high school graduates and it has existed, supposedly, since 2013. This observation seems to be extrapolated to developers in the quote you reference.

Re: Expertise in the age of AI

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Post by ygouzerh »

sailingcode wrote: post #121
ygouzerh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone is quite worried of their job. Many of us have made coding/IT our personality, what we were proud of, what the society made us feel valued. It's a big change in life... and there is no solution yet. So everyone feels the needs to talk about it, to either get rid of this anxiety by ranting or trying to prove that it would be an opportunity, or a non-event depending on the point of view, etc

The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.

That's true! Even faster, for exemple for young people who started university in September 2022 thinking computer sciences is one of the most promising for job opportunities: they started before ChatGPT was released, and now they haven't yet finished their masters degrees.
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