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> I'm already seeing lot of developer jobs especially front-end, testing roles being replaced entirely. Can you give me some public examples if it's so prevale
by ThalesX 2y ago
> I'm already seeing lot of developer jobs especially front-end, testing roles being replaced entirely.
Can you give me some public examples if it's so prevalent? I play around with the AI Dev tools and I can't see them being a feasible replacement for a human yet.
I also have friends that are copywriters, illustrators, photographers and they're pretty much the same as they always have been with another tool under their belt. So if you could also substantiate this claim I'd be curious.
- deisteve 2y agoI'm sorry I can't as I've signed an NDA but if you think these new generation of AI tools are some innocent augmentative processes you are gravely mistaken. What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training. What you will see come out next year will be a truly reckoning force. Not even Indians are safe.
- ThalesX 2y ago> I'm sorry I can't as I've signed an NDA Surely the company you worked for can't be the only one replacing people with these tools. What about the companies that actually have thousands of devs on their payroll? > What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training Do these new generation AI tools have names, mentions, parent companies? Or is everything in this shadow realm covered by NDA and I, as a mere mortal, cannot access? > Not even Indians are safe. What does this even mean?
- GeoAtreides 2y ago>> Not even Indians are safe. > What does this even mean? You know, I'm genuinely curious; do you honestly not understand what OP meant or are you actually disagreeing with OP by asking a rhetorical question?
- ThalesX 2y agoI honestly don't understand what he meant with the Indians part.
- danaris 2y agoThe last wave of companies trying to save money on programming labor was outsourcing the jobs to India. Deisteve appears to be claiming that LLM-based techniques for automating programming will be cheap and effective enough that even that kind of outsourcing will be unprofitable by comparison.
- deisteve 2y agoCorrect.
- ThalesX 2y agoThen I find this to be a totally unnecessary addition to a claim that they've replaced frontenders and testers with LLM. Of course no one is safe if they've actually achieved that (with no proof given) so obviously Indian programmers are not safe. Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or American ones for that matter. For the (unsubstantiated) claim that actual humans have been replaced. It's like Tesla creating a full self driving car (level 5) and ending the promotional video with "Not even rickshaw drivers are safe". Just fluff.
- deisteve 2y agoYou are in Europe so you may not be aware of the situation in North America especially Canada and the government mandated surge of migrants from India and the tensions it has created. > Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or American ones for that matter. For the (unsubstantiated) claim that actual humans have been replaced. The representation of Indonesian workers here is nil. Eastern European migrants are also unable to compete with the suppressed wages that Indian migrants can fill. It's an overwhelming motif playing out across all industries. You can take a look at the scale of the exploitation of Indian migrant labour for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41284574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41284574