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That’s just because people have been so indoctrinated by capitalism that they only find joy if they’re being worked to the bone. They have forgotten the joy of not doing anything productive.
There are many people who can afford to do nothing. They rarely do, and those who do, are not necessarily happy.
If I were a trained professional software engineer who found joy in writing tests and TDD, maybe I'd feel differently, but I write software to help with basic scientific analysis, and ChatGPT has been an absolute game changer for writing tests. I personally find writing tests to be soul-crushing, boring, work. I never really learned it properly, and when I have a well-documented function, CGPT typically does a decent…
In this case it is the opposite, the best ML/software engineers today think this is a passing phase. It's the general population and business people who are claiming it to be revolutionary.
Only time will tell though
I don't agree. Copilot/etc is kind of worthless for me, it creates so many issues that I've never bothered to work with it. AI is awesome for solving issues, asking it questions about code, asking for possible solutions. But maybe I'm just fast at writing code that actually solves the problem, so I don't need an AI to code for me.
It's frustrating. Cody's autocomplete used to work really well for me. Then they switched to DeepSeek. Now I regularly get suggestions that are irrelevant, incomplete, and contain syntax errors. I'm not sure what it's like these days but I had a similar experience with Copilot a while back. I wonder if good autocomplete is just too expensive.
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At least with a Junior Engineer they can learn and grow from your feedback, becoming a more useful member of the team, the generative model on the other hand will not.
Eh, there's actually a solution for this. Use Composer notebooks to keep a growing markdown document of context you want future versions to remember. My Cursor today is much better than my Cursor on day 1.
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A lot of people don't/didn't set out in life to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time. They set out to be an average worker who learns a skill and lives a life focused on things outside of being the maximal worker. For these people it's even less about if an LLM can beat them (which, to be honest, for most all of us is or will be true at least for certain…
This used to be life for 99% of human history. Don't take the past 30 years lifestyle for granted just because we created government, free market or whatever. Human nature is to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time otherwise they die.
I've had the absolute opposite experience, AI has brought back a lot of the joy of programming and building products for me. I've been using Cursor extensively these past few months, for anything ranging from scaffolding to complex UIs. The trick, I've found, is to treat the AI like I would work with a junior engineer, giving in concrete detailed tasks to accomplish, breaking the problem down myself into manageable c…
Exactly. AI lets me focus on the most interesting part of programming. Coming up with how I want to solve the problem, not wasting time searching docs to find out if a particular function will do what I want and many other tasks I didn't even know were not my favourite before.
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Eh, there's actually a solution for this. Use Composer notebooks to keep a growing markdown document of context you want future versions to remember. My Cursor today is much better than my Cursor on day 1.
I would imagine the context takes up valuable input tokens that you would otherwise need to use for your request. So you'll run out at some point and then you just have a simple model rather than a skilled engineer.
It's just the start, it's about to steal the joy of everything in life pretty soon.
That’s just because people have been so indoctrinated by capitalism that they only find joy if they’re being worked to the bone. They have forgotten the joy of not doing anything productive.
Do you really think the authoritarian elites will let the unwashed masses with no income do whatever the hell they want? Can you really say that after COVID lockdowns demonstrated their true colors?
None of the other capitalism-alternatives have historically afforded the kind of luxury you're suggesting either. Quite the opposite, in fact.