I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
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I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
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Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
#2"Judgement" is perfect for now. I use CC and Codex every day, and I agree they spit out something that will work on the first run, but they go wild about some system design choices. For now, I agree with you that judgement and system design/architecture is the distinction.
What I worry about and think will happen is we will see emerging platform that does full systems, and replit is a good example of that. I don't think these tools are enterprise ready yet (I might be wrong), as enterprise is always about integration with other systems including legacy ones and data silos.
I think we will be like COBOL developers now; we will maintain pre-AI systems until we retire.
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#3"Judgement" is perfect for now. I use CC and Codex every day, and I agree they spit out something that will work on the first run, but they go wild about some system design choices. For now, I agree with you that judgement and system design/architecture is the distinction. What I worry about and think will happen is we will see emerging platform that does full systems, and replit is a good example of that. I don't th…
I worry about that too, but I'm not sure we are close to that yet. Maybe we'll end up working on legacy systems where AI would break more than it would fix, or maybe we would become prompters. Idk!
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#4And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
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#5And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol.
it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
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#6And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol. it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
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Re: I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
#7And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol. it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
In a way, you did what you preached. You used judgement to determine what to write about and then had AI touch it up for you.
I don't view it as a bad thing.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol. it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
In a way, you did what you preached. You used judgement to determine what to write about and then had AI touch it up for you. I don't view it as a bad thing.
That's true! that make me feel better lol. The internet is so sensitive to AI slop, it's hard to know what's the right balanced of usage when writing.
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#9> AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose.
I would add: "Yet."
Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as well, likely within a shorter period of time than we'd all expect.
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#10> AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose. I would add: "Yet." Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as w…
When that happens, we'll having nothing else to do.