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Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:09PM (#47213403)
Not just education... it affects how people make decisions throughout life. In other words it makes a person ill-prepared to deal with the stuff that happens in life.
Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:58PM (#47212971)
Your kid is gonna do well in life.
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:55PM (#47212945)
Haha.

Im still waiting for someone to show me something that makes me go "Wow!".

Show me, dont tell me!

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:42PM (#47212864)
Youre not wrong.

Theres been a lot stuff going in the UK that goes back to high-school level stuff. Grade inflation etc.

Its a disaster.

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:36PM (#47212824)
What a ridiculous take lmao.

What are your contributions again?

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:29PM (#47212788)
Hey man is there a private space where thinkers like you hang? Would like to join :)

I wrote a similar post in this thread.

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:18PM (#47212715)
The most likely explanation for "AI layoffs" is not that AI has caused a dramatic jump in productivity - its more that managers are running out of creativity in relation to revenue-generating and cost-reducing projects and henceforth have no use for the surplus of labour. Its much easier to maximize the stock price in the short-term by riding the 'AI' wave.

There seems to be some nonsensical belief that there exists this endless stream of positive NPV projects to take. No... reality is not like that.

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:06PM (#47212632)
"At this point I can only see self-discipline as a mechanism to willingly avoid AI"

Do you realise how difficult this actually is? Millions of people have zero self-discipline with their consumption of social media.

Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @07:57PM (#47212573)
Its a disaster.

Remember this simple fact - if you dont use it, you lose it. The cognitive damage these tools will create wont be largely visible on a macro-scale for a few more years yet. But people are eventually going to realise, all this work (pre off-loading to LLMs) once geared the brain to work in a particular kind of way that results in the generation of ideas for inventions to yield innovations and so on...

Personally Im only strictly hiring people who have not been exposed to the LLM-virus / people who are extremely disciplined with their use about it (which is difficult to determine).

Re:Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting on Sunday March 01, 2026 @07:46PM (#47212500)
Shh stop speaking sense to blind technologists.

The road to mass adoption of autonomous vehicles probably wont happen in any poster's lifetime on this board. The reality is most people on here are quite narrow minded and can't 'understand' why it is not as easy as "hey I found a stat that shows Waymo is safer than humans!!11!".

Re:Poll: Code with AI or Not? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:16PM (#47202121)
True, but easier to see consensus than reading through a thread that is filled with a variety of posts in terms of usefulness.
Re:Poll: Code with AI or Not? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:10PM (#47202055)
I hope this thread/poll sparks productive and effective discussion on the subject.