My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by CuriouslyC on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:23PM (#44164414)

If you really think that feel free to continue with business as usual. I just hope you're not at a stack ranking company, or you are politically savvy though, because otherwise you're going to be in for a real shock in the next few years as your peers build their AI skills, tooling matures and models improve. A skilled dev with a well tuned agentic workflow can already finish non-trivial 5k LoC projects in a day, complete with copious tests and documentation, just imagine when the ecosystem has matured and the majority of your coworkers are hip to the game.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by blibble on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:32PM (#44164489)

if it is as good as everyone says it is, then we're all out of a job (permanently) in under 5 years

worse case for me, I'd be out very slightly before everyone else

so what's the benefit in defecting to the people building the slop machines?

(I wouldn't be upset about getting a large severance payment either)

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by CuriouslyC on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:45PM (#44164607)

Not everyone else is going to be out though, just the people who don't rise with the tide. Now is the time to understand where the tools are going, what humans are likely to still be better at (probably what and why, definitely not how), how that's going to impact what it means to be a developer, and how you can expand/broaden your skillset to continue to have a niche when your technical skills are devalued. Adapt or die.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by blibble on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:55PM (#44164676)

I have no interest in adapting, I'd rather be redundant

but I don't think that's going to happen

and no amount of prophesying (what you're doing here), will change my mind

I think the more likely outcome is a repeat of the 2000s: ungodly amounts of outsourced code leading to paralysis and near collapse

except this time it'll be far more widespread, thanks to the US tech industry ramming their slop down everyone's throat

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by citizenpaul on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:18PM (#44172342)

>hip to the game.

Thats the crux.

copious tests - That don't work but no one cares.

documentation - That no one has or ever will read, and is hilariously inaccurate.

There is a lot of software pre AI that is churned out because some manager wanted exactly what they wanted but it had no purpose or need. I expect that to explode in the coming years for sure. I'm not afraid of AI, its merely ok, another tool is all.

It will allow companies to dig themselves very deep holes. Devs wise to the game will be able to charge astronomical fees to empty the pools filled with the AI sewage they have been filled with.

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