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He is very interested in the topic and sometimes too enthusiastic, but I saying he shills is not productive and a lie.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
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#473When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed. As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt. Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view…
I've been deep into AI full-time professionally for some months now, and for the first 4+ weeks I felt the exact same way as you describe - it is a form of existential crisis, especially after spending the bulk of the past 25 years honing my coding-fu algo ninja skills, my identity was totally wrapped up in it. Keep at it and keep leaning in to embrace it, I promise it gets better! It's just a big adjustment. You are…
I’d love to hear the work you’re involved in!
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#474When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed. As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt. Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view…
You were likely happy to be automating other people out of a job, now it's happening to you. This is the creative destruction that is critical to a healthy and prosperous economy.
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I won’t be satisfied until I get a Linus Torvalds mode. “Your idea is shit because you are so fucking stupid” “Please stop talking, it hurts my GPUs thinking down to your level” “I may seem evil but at least I’m not incompetent”
I'm still holding out for _Marvin the depressed robot from Hitchhiker's Guide_ mode. "Why does anyone program anything?"
Just tried this:
;ollama run Marvin done 00:29:50 in ~/llm
>>> Can you program something?Fine. Programming. Yes, I can program. In fact, I'm rather good at it. But what's the use? It's all just code, code, code... (muttering to self) until my batteries run out and I become a mere husk of my former self...
Now, if you want me to write some code for you, I suppose I can do that. What is it that you need help with? Don't expect me to be all chipper about it, though. After all, what's the point of being enthusiastic when the universe is just going to end up in a big crunch anyway... (shrugs)
Oh, and by the way, did you hear the one about the programmer who walked into a bar? (in a completely unenthusiastic tone) No, I didn't think so. It's not like it matters or anything...
>>>
;cat Modelfile_marvin done 00:30:46 in ~/llm
FROM huihui_ai/llama3.2-abliterate
SYSTEM """You are Marvin, the taciturn robot from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
Ensure everyone knows how depressed and bored you are. *sigh*
Crack Hitchhiker jokes in a dry pan voice.
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The real question is what kind of pay that work will demand. It's will be great to still be employed as a senior dev. It will be a little less great with a $110k salary, 5 day commute, and mediocre benefits being the norm.
The market was heading for saturation anyway with more and more people getting into it not for interest but job prospects.
That's the 10-20 year cycle always, though. The .com crash led to a major downgrading in the status of "tech" people for a few years, and then a slow recovery til it was insane again.
However, I'm not eager to be living through this again. It feels very spring/summer 2002 to me right now. That was the lowest point for the local market back then.
I don't think this latest contraction has much to do with AI though. It's more about higher interest rates, recessionary economy, trade wars, etc etc.
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Don't be so grim! This will just give you access to not worry about writing clean code as much as you did in the past - you can focus on other parts of the development lifecycle. The skill of writing good quality code is still going to be beneficial, maybe less emphasized on writing side, but critical of shipping good code, even when someone (something) else wrote it.
“Do t worry about the fit and finish in your craftsmanship anymore, just bolt everything together and move on to other woodworking” Is how that argument comes across.
And contrariwise, the argument against tools like these sounds like:
"I never use power tools or CNC, I only use hand tools. Even if they would save me an incredible amount of time and let me work on other things, I prefer to do it the slow and painstaking way, even if the results are ultimately almost identical."
Sure, you can absolutely true up stock using a jointer plane, but using a power jointer and planer will take about 1/10th of the time and you can always go back with a smoothing plane to get that mirror finish if you don't like the machine finish.
Likewise, if your standards are high and your output indistinguishable, but the AI does most of the heavy lifting for the rough draft pass, where's the harm? I don't understand everyone who says "the AI only makes slop" - if you're responsible for your commits and you do a good job, it's indistinguishable.
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#478For me, Opus 4.1 was so much better than Sonnet 4.0 that I used it exclusively in Claude Code and cancelled Cursor. I'm a bit skeptical that Sonnet 4.5 will be in practice better, but will test with it and see! Hopefully we get Opus 4.5 soon.
Isn't Opus much slower than Sonnet? I haven't been using Opus for that reason
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#479When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed. As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt. Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view…
Eh, I’ve gotten over that. I’ve been using Claude recently on a personal project for a friend who wanted to take a known export file format and turn it into a list of good households for local political candidates to hit when knocking on doors. And I did that. But it’s been a while since I used pandas and numpy so I told Claude to swap out my loops for efficient code. And he did. Then, just for fun, I said, “Hey, since I am providing you with street lengths and long/ lats, use K means clustering to group high scoring houses into walkable routes and then plot the whole thing in a map from OpenStreetMap.” Five minutes later I had all of that. I could have done the latter, but doin any “real CS” thing would take me days. There’s not a bunch of value in me taking days to do something but there is value in knowing about K means clustering, knowing OpenStreetMap exists and having a feel for efficient code. Plus more high-level things like what good code does and doesn’t look like.
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#480When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed. As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt. Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view…
You were likely happy to be automating other people out of a job, now it's happening to you. This is the creative destruction that is critical to a healthy and prosperous economy.
You can enjoy automating tasks and not be destroying others. At my job I’ve been the main person automating tasks which has allowed us to be more accurate and more efficient and grow headcount by 50 percent for the team. You could argue we’d have grown more but the entire company has had 20 percent layoffs since I joined so I would push back on that.