News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" by krapp on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:35AM (#49976997)
I was being entirely serious. Most of those jobs will be taken by AI soon enough, and I don't think most programmers have what it takes to do skilled labor.
Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" by PorciiVorbesc on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:08AM (#49979641)
>Most of those jobs will be taken by AI soon enough

How so? You think AI will design and build cars, boats and planes or do your plumbing? Good luck with that.

>and I don't think most programmers have what it takes to do skilled labor

Only the fakers and opportunists who lucked into the industry without any effort, and then lucked lucked some more into avoiding getting laid off.

Those who got into the industry because they actually have critical thinking will have no issues staying in the industry or pivoting into other industries.

Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" by krapp on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:22PM (#49983556)
>You think AI will design and build cars, boats and planes or do your plumbing?

AI already does all of these things except the plumbing.

>Those who got into the industry because they actually have critical thinking will have no issues staying in the industry or pivoting into other industries.

The vast majority of people got into the industry because they could make six figures right out of high school and roll the dice on retiring a billionaire before 30.

The reality of end-stage capitalism is going to hit most programmers like a brick to the face.

Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" by andsoitis on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:20AM (#49979857)
> Most of those jobs will be taken by AI soon enough

What's an example of a specific job that will soon no longer exist because of AI?