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Maybe I am, but I'm getting pretty rich doing it, so there is that. :)

by JanSt 2y ago

skwee357 2y ago
The fact that you make money using AI, has nothing to do with its usefulness for society/humanity. There are people who are getting “pretty rich” by trafficking humans, or selling drugs. Would you want to live in a society where such activities are encouraged? In the end, we need to look at technological progress (or any progress for that matter) as where it will bring us to in the future, rather than what it allows you to do now. It also pisses me off that software engineering has such a bad reputation that everyone, from common folks to the CEO of nvidia, is shitting on it. You don’t hear phrases like “AI is going to change medicine/structural engineering”, because you would shit your pants if you had to sit in a dentist chair, while the dentist would ask ChatGPT how to perform a root canal; or if you had to live in a house designed by a structural engineer whose buddy was Claude. And yet, somehow, everyone is ready to throw software engineers under the bus and label them as "useless"/easily replaceable by AI.
- JanSt 2y ago
  I‘m not making money because of AI, I make a lot of money because I‘m a good programmer. My current income has little to do with ai (99% build before GPT). So relax please.
namaria 2y ago
"I'm getting paid so I don't really care" is the most destructive instance a human can take. Why do you think we're about to disrupt the Holocene climate optimum that gave birth to modern civilization?
- JanSt 2y ago
  I’m getting pretty rich programming not using AI. This is an answer to me being a bad coder. My income has nothing to do with AI apart from maybe 1% me being more productive since Claude 3.5 dropped. Be assured I’m not going to destroy the planet.
  - namaria 2y ago
    By yourself? Hardly. We all are by demanding top dollar for sitting on computers while demanding to buy cheap things without limits. But we're getting paid right? And the Prime van will keep delivering.

Maybe I am, but I'm getting pretty rich doing it, so there is that. :)

by JanSt 2y ago

Maybe I am, but I'm getting pretty rich doing it, so there is that. :)

The fact that you make money using AI, has nothing to do with its usefulness for society/humanity. There are people who are getting “pretty rich” by trafficking humans, or selling drugs. Would you want to live in a society where such activities are encouraged? In the end, we need to look at technological progress (or any progress for that matter) as where it will bring us to in the future, rather than what it allows you to do now. It also pisses me off that software engineering has such a bad reputation that everyone, from common folks to the CEO of nvidia, is shitting on it. You don’t hear phrases like “AI is going to change medicine/structural engineering”, because you would shit your pants if you had to sit in a dentist chair, while the dentist would ask ChatGPT how to perform a root canal; or if you had to live in a house designed by a structural engineer whose buddy was Claude. And yet, somehow, everyone is ready to throw software engineers under the bus and label them as "useless"/easily replaceable by AI.

JanSt 2y ago
I‘m not making money because of AI, I make a lot of money because I‘m a good programmer. My current income has little to do with ai (99% build before GPT). So relax please.

namaria 2y ago

"I'm getting paid so I don't really care" is the most destructive instance a human can take. Why do you think we're about to disrupt the Holocene climate optimum that gave birth to modern civilization?

JanSt 2y ago
I’m getting pretty rich programming not using AI. This is an answer to me being a bad coder. My income has nothing to do with AI apart from maybe 1% me being more productive since Claude 3.5 dropped. Be assured I’m not going to destroy the planet.
- namaria 2y ago
  By yourself? Hardly. We all are by demanding top dollar for sitting on computers while demanding to buy cheap things without limits. But we're getting paid right? And the Prime van will keep delivering.