When you read the comments here just remember there are people using ChatGPT to write code.
And those people probably aren’t developers by trade, just power users who superficially understand the moving parts but who cannot write code themselves.
IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
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Thanks! I used to own a Tesla and there were similar platforms out there. Bought a Rivian and wanted something like that. I started building this before AI-assisted coding was very popular. But it greatly increased my productivity.
There is that quote "there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see". I feel like there is a solid variation with solid business opportunities instead of cathedrals haha. I've found AI to be a big productivity boost for myself, but I don't really use it to generate much actual code. Maybe it could do more for me, idk, but I also don't feel like I'm being left behind. I actually enjoy writing code, but…
First of all, thank you. I've always been told I have a back for seeing opportunities others don't.
For me, I always had the ideas and even as a competent engineer, the speed of development annoyed me.
I think folks get annoyed when their reality doesn't match other people's claims. But I have friends who aren't engineers who have launched successful SaaS products. I don't know if it's jealousy or what but people are quite passionate about how it doesn't have productivity gains.
Hell, I remember Intellisense in Visual Studio being a big boon for me. Now I can have tasks asynchronous, even if not faster, it frees up my time.
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It's not an argument, it's a fact.
Its also a fact my stopped clocked will show the correct time two times a day :-)
Fair. I've had super-linear growth since launching in September. Zero marketing outside of a referral program. People genuinely love what I'm building. I get multiple emails per week about how people appreciate the software and how I send out weekly emails about everything I've launched.
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Another one? What is it with IBM, they must really save lots of money in a way no one else has figured out by firing people at 50yo. This is like the 3rd or 4th one i've heard from them.
It’s not very hard. Take a guy making $200k and 30% benefit overhead and replace with two offshore people at $50k total comp.
They don't have to keep giving people raises, why wait until the guy is 50, why not when he is 30 and making $100k? It's not like they have people doing manual labor, it's office jobs. People's faculties don't decline until their late 60's at the earliest. Why don't other multinationals do this and get sued also, what makes IBM special?
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You'd be surprised how low the bar is. What I'm seeing is down to the level of people not writing complete sentences. There doesn't need to be any "magic" there. Just clearly state your requirements. And start by asking the model to plan out the changes and write a markdown file with a plan first (I prefer this over e.g. Claude Code's plan mode, because I like to keep that artefact), including planning out tests. If…
Not surprising. Many folks struggle with writing (hence why ChatGPT is so popular for writing stuff), so people struggling to coherently express what they want and how makes sense. But the big models have come a long way in this regard. Claude + Opus especially. You can build something with a super small prompt and keep hammering it with fix prompts until you get what you want. It's not efficient, but it's doable, an…
> Claude + Opus especially. You can build something with a super small prompt and keep hammering it with fix prompts until you get what you want.
LOL: especially with Claude this was only in 1 out of 10 cases?
Claude output is usually (near) production ready on the first prompt if you precisely describe where you are, what you want and how you get it and what the result should be.
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#266I pay $20 for OpenAI and codex makes me incredibly productive. With very careful prompts aimed at tiny tasks, I can review, fix and get a lot of things done. I’ll happily pay up to $2k/month for it if I was left with no choice, but I don’t think it will ever get that expensive since you can run models locally and it could have the same result. That being said, my outputs are similarish in the big picture. When I get…
Marx in his wildest nightmare couldn’t have anticipated the level selling short the working class does with the advent AI. Friend, you should be doing more than golf…
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People seem to think LLMs killing the cs career means companies will still pay senior salaries to shepherd agentic LLM style development. I think it is the senior that is the dinosaur here. As we speak cs curriculums are changing to teach people to cruch along with ai. The next batch of juniors will be taking these jobs. There won’t be seniors anymore at least at the salaries we’ve come to assume with that. The skill…
Bwahahahahahaha There is no framework, just confusing junk. At some point, it needs to actually work and….
Glueing the junk together is what the bengaluru office is for. You don’t need bay area comp for that.
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Okay. I'm glad you're privileged enough to where you can choose your customers. Customers that aren't abusive or otherwise out of their league thinking they know everything just because they have money. Otherwise, you never feeelanced on the cheap.
Calling me "privileged" or "lucky" feels like a cheap attack on my competence. I am certain that I went through the same problems you did in the past, maybe I just have a different way of dealing with them, or maybe I had even worse problems than you did but I have a different frame of comparison. We never stopped to compared notes. All I'm saying is: for me dealing with business owners, end-users, CEOs and CTOs was…
>I am certain that I went through the same problems you did in the past,
And I'm certain you haven't if you really, never wanted a layer of separation between certain clients over behavioral issues that got in the way of the actual work. And I'm still male, so I'm sure I still have it better than certain other experiences I only heard third hand in my industry.
I don't see it as a cheap attack. Any teacher would love to be in a classroom exclusively made up of motivated honors students so they can focus on teaching and nurturing. Instead, most teachers tend to become parental proxies without the authority to actually discipline children. So they see a chair fly and at best they need to hope a principal handles it. But sometimes the kid is back in class the next day.
Its envy more than anything else.
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Bwahahahahahaha There is no framework, just confusing junk. At some point, it needs to actually work and….
Glueing the junk together is what the bengaluru office is for. You don’t need bay area comp for that.
‘at some point it needs to actually work’….
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I would like to know what models people are running locally that get the same results as a $20/month ChatGPT plan
Well theres an open source GPT model you can run locally. I dont think running models locally is all that cheap considering top of the line GPUs used to be $300 now you are lucky if you get the best GPU for under $2000. The better models require a lot more VRAM. Macs can run them pretty decently but now you are spending $5000 plus you could have just bought a rig with a 5090 with mediocre desktop ram because Sam Altm…
Mac can run larger models due to the unified memory architecture. Try building a 512GB nvidia VRAM machine. You basically can’t.