>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online
and we also see with what consequences
Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
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Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
#32The same reason that outsourcing all your telecom infra to China is a bad idea.
true that
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#331. Work for megacorp
2. Megacorp CEOs gloat about forthcoming mass firings of engineers
3. Pay taxes as always
4. Taxes used to fund megacorp (stargate)
5. Megacorp fires me.
The bitter irony.
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#35We have fired all our programmers. However, the AI is hard to work with, it expects specific wording in order to program our code as expected. We have hired people with expertise in the specific language needed to transmit our specifications to the AI with more precision.
I sure empathize.... our AI is fussy and rigid... pedantic even.
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| This 'thing' matches too many objects in the knowledge scope.Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
#36Well, what will happen, is that programmers will become experts at prompt engineering, which will become a real discipline (remember when “software engineering” was a weird niche?).
They will blow away the companies that rely on “seat of the pants,” undisciplined prompting.
I’m someone that started on Machine Language, and now programs in high-level languages. I remember when we couldn’t imagine programming without IRQs and accumulators.
As always, ML will become another tool for multiplying the capabilities of humans (not replacing them).
CEOs have been dreaming for decades about firing all their employees, and replacing them with some kind of automation.
The ones that succeed, are the ones that “embrace the suck,” so to speak, and figure out how to combine humans with technology.
Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
#37There is only one word worse than "programmer" and it's "coder".
If your software developers do nothing but write text in VS Code, you might as well replace them with AI.
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#38"Let AI replace programmers" is the new "Let’s outsource everything to ." Short-term cost savings, long-term disaster.
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#39Such writings, articles, and sayings remind me of the Luddite movement. Unfortunately, preventing what is to come is not within our control. By fighting against windmills, one only bends the spear in hand. The Zeitgeist indicates that this will happen soon or in the near future. Even though developers are intelligent, hardworking, and good at their jobs, they will always be lacking and helpless in some way against th…
Once AI achieves runaway self improvement predicting the future is even more pointless than it is today. You’re looking at an economy in which the best human is worse at any and all jobs than the worst robot. There are no past examples to extrapolate from.
Re: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
#40>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online
Twitter is, in fact, not online. It redirects to something called X, which is not Twitter.
Yet there is this:
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