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Another step closer to The Great Logging Off.

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
Amen. I've been having a growing sense of an existential crisis over the past few months, and while a lot of it is due to the general fear of "will AI put me out of a job in the next 5 years", more of it has to do with fact that I'm just uneasy about where tech is headed. I spent my entire career diving head first into technology, and for the first half of it I was supremely optimistic about it. Things have obviously soured over the past decade as I've seen the negative impacts the internet has on our public discourse, mental health (including my own), etc. But now, seeing what AI has on the horizon, I'm honestly just like "I need to go for a fucking walk, upon which I will throw my phone into the river."
- 000ooo000 4y ago
  Very relatable. Also feeling the dread re. AI, but more so because I really enjoy programming and have no other marketable skills (and I have no interest in retraining). I think it's a decade or two away but I can see programming as a job changing so much as to be uninteresting to me. Hell, Agile has made it barely tolerable now. I'm also almost done with the web. I remember listening to the dialup modem with excitement, browsing the web, downloading things and just being generally enthralled with everything the web had to offer. Now it feels like a mall with 3 chain stores in it. Being mostly a web dev, I'm in a kind of weird spot mentally about what I do with 80%+ of my time (i.e. program for the web, browse the web).
  - carapace 4y ago
    Same here. The kind of programming I love to do is now a hobby only. (It's a good thing, I think, because the machines will write bug-free code, but I'm wistful. And the money sure was nice!) I'm going to build toy computers for people like us who just like computers (something like Nand-to-Tetris, eh? Or Ben Eater's great kits.) but I'm not kidding myself that that's going to make a lot of money (not like programming used to.)
- tetris11 4y ago
  I dont mind my job being replaced due to AI, I mind that I won't be able to pay my bills because of the replacement. i.e. I'm not worried about AI, I'm worried about how capitalism will weild it against me.
- sussexby 4y ago
  I feel I could have written this exact reply myself. Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts. It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.

Amen. I've been having a growing sense of an existential crisis over the past few months, and while a lot of it is due to the general fear of "will AI put me out of a job in the next 5 years", more of it has to do with fact that I'm just uneasy about where tech is headed. I spent my entire career diving head first into technology, and for the first half of it I was supremely optimistic about it. Things have obviously soured over the past decade as I've seen the negative impacts the internet has on our public discourse, mental health (including my own), etc. But now, seeing what AI has on the horizon, I'm honestly just like "I need to go for a fucking walk, upon which I will throw my phone into the river."

000ooo000 4y ago
Very relatable. Also feeling the dread re. AI, but more so because I really enjoy programming and have no other marketable skills (and I have no interest in retraining). I think it's a decade or two away but I can see programming as a job changing so much as to be uninteresting to me. Hell, Agile has made it barely tolerable now. I'm also almost done with the web. I remember listening to the dialup modem with excitement, browsing the web, downloading things and just being generally enthralled with everything the web had to offer. Now it feels like a mall with 3 chain stores in it. Being mostly a web dev, I'm in a kind of weird spot mentally about what I do with 80%+ of my time (i.e. program for the web, browse the web).
- carapace 4y ago
  Same here. The kind of programming I love to do is now a hobby only. (It's a good thing, I think, because the machines will write bug-free code, but I'm wistful. And the money sure was nice!) I'm going to build toy computers for people like us who just like computers (something like Nand-to-Tetris, eh? Or Ben Eater's great kits.) but I'm not kidding myself that that's going to make a lot of money (not like programming used to.)
tetris11 4y ago
I dont mind my job being replaced due to AI, I mind that I won't be able to pay my bills because of the replacement. i.e. I'm not worried about AI, I'm worried about how capitalism will weild it against me.
sussexby 4y ago
I feel I could have written this exact reply myself. Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts. It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.