Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by ge96 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:19AM (#43014668)

A friend of mine reached out with some code ChatGPT wrote for him to trade crypto. It had so much random crap in it and lines would say "AI enhanced trading algo" and it was just an np.randomint line. It was pulling in random deps not even used.

I get it though like I'm terrible working with IMUs and I want to just get something going but I can't there's that wall I need to overcome/learn eg. the math behind it. Same with programming helps to have the background knowing how to read code and how it works.

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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by HDThoreaun on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:45PM (#43015721)

I used claude to help write a crypto trading bot. It helped me push out thousands of lines a day. What wouldve taken months took a couple weeks. Obviously you still need experienced pilots but unless we find an absolute fuckload of new work to do(not unlikely looking at history) its hard for me to see anything other than way less developers being needed.

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