points
1 year ago
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First, I don't believe the AI hype and I would advise you to not believe it either. People are notoriously bad at predicting the future. When I was in high school everyone said that programming was a dead career because it would all be outsourced to India, and that you should pursue a career as a PC repairman because it couldn't be outsourced. Needless to say, those predictions aged like milk. And even right now, AI isn't nearly as capable as the hype club makes it out to be. All that we can do is remain on our toes and be adaptive to change, but that's always been the case. Anyone who figures they will retire from this business doing the same exact job they started with has always been in for a rude awakening.

Second, even if my job gets destroyed by changing tech that doesn't make farming an attractive option. It's dangerous, it wears your body down super hard, and the pay is garbage (which isn't very just tbh, but economics rarely are). I don't know what I'll do if my career goes up in a poof of smoke next year, but farming will be very low on the list no matter what I do.

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Guthur
1 year ago
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Even without complete replacement over production is a real concern. Over production doesn't necessarily mean better but it did mean your hand crafted artisanal code need to compete against the shovelware of AI generation. Given the predominance of short-termism and "productivity" metrics this may push you out anyway.
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nyarlathotep_
1 year ago
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> When I was in high school everyone said that programming was a dead career because it would all be outsourced to India

I literally didn't start a software career until nearly 30 because I heard this growing up.

I'm growing very weary of all of these world-ending proclamations.

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