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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (12 children)

The sad thing is that no amount of mocking the current state of ML today will prevent it from taking all of our jobs tomorrow. Yes, there will be a phase where programmers, like myself, who refuse to use LLM as a tool to produce work faster will be pushed out by those that will work with LLMs. However, I console myself with the belief that this phase will last not even a full generation, and even those collaborative devs will find themselves made redundant, and we'll reach the same end without me having to eliminate the one enjoyable part of my job. I do not want to be reduced to being only a debugger for something else's code.

Thing is, at the point AI becomes self-improving, the last bastion of human-led development will fall.

I guess mocking and laughing now is about all we can do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, we could end capitalism, and demand that AI be applied to the betterment of humanity, rather than to increasing profits, enter a post-scarcity future, and then do whatever we want with our lives, rather than selling our time by the hour.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The only way I see that happening is if the entire economy collapses because nobody has jobs, which might actually happen pretty soon 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Amen. Let's do that thing: you have my vote.

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