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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)

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.
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