mickmack_

Re:Distilling business domain logic into a model on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:00AM (#35192917)

Makes you as a software dev irrelevant for one I would guess.

Re:Ask HN: Future Career Moves on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:57PM (#35192889)

100%. Once the cost of the context window lessens as it naturally will, as well as the window itself increases then you will have the entire code base in the AI memory. Then literally anyone, a PM, CEO, lunch lady etc. Could add whatever feature requested in plain english in seconds.

Only value left would be in cutting edge research but that is a very hard area to get into frankly. Maybe IoT could be something.

Ask HN: Future Career Moves

Posted by mickmack_ on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I am currently employed in a rather large US tech company in Europe as a software engineer, I have a masters in comp sci etc etc. I have 3 more years of RSU stocks. I reckon with the speed of generative AI, that lines up pretty well with when my usefulness will be roughly equal to 0.Problem is I am now 32, will then be 35. It might be a bit late to start a new career path at that stage, so...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you think LLMs will affect society medium/long term? on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#35160717)

Big organizations are done in my opinion.

In the future there will be tiny super qualified teams on some narrow slice of competency having super narrow data sets they will guard like it is the fort knox.

Everyone else: Fridge repair.

Re:Ask HN: What will be future software job market be like in 10 years... on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:58PM (#35157446)

Unfortunate reality is that software devs will go the way of the blacksmith sooner rather than later. If there is anything after this I would not even dare to question. There is always fridge repair!

Rumours of Microsoft Layoffs

Posted by mickmack_ on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:29PM
from the self-post dept.

Currently work at microsoft, heard a rumour that the higher ups have gotten access to the new codex GPT solution. It was fed the codebase of office and windows and flawlessly implemented new features with very loose descriptions.It has been a pleasure my friends, but I think our days here are numbered.

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Re:Japan once led global tech innovation. How did it fall so behind? on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:26PM (#33885649)

They just never really believed in software much.

Re:Writing a 3D Game in C (in 2022) on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:16PM (#33885482)

I don't understand why you would use C over C++ for anything other than random embedded devices where you have very intimate knowledge of the hardware. I guess you just really hate any hint of a type system?