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Re:We mourn our craft by sosomoxie on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:12PM (#46927412)
I'm actually extremely good at programming. My point is I love computers and computing. You can use technology to achieve amazing things (even having fun). Now I can do much more of that than when I was limited to what I can personally code. In the end, it's what computers can do that's amazing, beautiful, terrifying... That thrill and to be on the bleeding edge is always what I was after.
Re:We mourn our craft by samiv on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:05PM (#46928010)
The downside is that whatever you (Claude) can do so can anyone else too.

So you're welcome to make the 100000000th Copy of the same thing that nobody cares about anymore.

Re:We mourn our craft by sosomoxie on Saturday February 07, 2026 @07:33PM (#46929965)
It's so easy to build things that I don't need anyone to care about it, I just need to the computer to do what I want it to do.
Re:We mourn our craft by IhateAI on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:27PM (#46927581)
Its going to strip all value from labor you idiot, you won't be able to afford to create anything unless you can afford some billionaire's thinking machine. I guess for people like you that had 40 years to save up SWE salaries that's fine, you're a class traitor. Stop cheering on the destruction of human agency, and labor.

Typical boomers think the world is perfect because they have everything they need, without any care for the next generation. Thinking, oh they'll figure it out. Guess what we're not. The world is going to shit because of attitudes like this, you'll leave us with nothing.

Re:We mourn our craft by tines on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:53PM (#46927878)
Thank you. I don't understand how people don't see that this is the universe's most perfect gift to corporations, and what a disaster it is for labor. There won't be a middle class. Future generations will be intellectual invalids. Baffling to see people celebrating.
Re:We mourn our craft by samiv on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:08PM (#46928038)
They are the useful idiots buying into the hype thinking they by some magic they get to keep their jobs and their incomes.

This things is going to erase careers and render skills sets and knowledge cultivated over decades worthless.

Anyone can promt the same fucking shit now and call it a day.

Re:We mourn our craft by blibble on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:21PM (#46928189)
it is a very, very strange thing to witness

even if you can be a prompt engineer (or whatever it's called this week) today

well, with the feedback you're providing: you're training it to do that too

you are LITERALLY training the newly hired outsourced personnel to do your job

but this time you won't be able to get a job anywhere else, because your fellow class traitors are doing exactly the same thing at every other company in the world

Re:We mourn our craft by freigeist79 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:49PM (#46927824)
If you were confident in your own skills, you wouldn’t need to invent a whole backstory just to discredit someone.