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Welcome to the club. Have coders really psyopped themselves into thinking their job is somehow that much more special than the rest simply because it paid bett

Welcome to the club. Have coders really psyopped themselves into thinking their job is somehow that much more special than the rest simply because it paid better due to temporarily market conditions? I thought that was a joke where everyone was in on it, not that they were serious. I assumed it was clear we're all replaceable cogs in a machine, baring a few exceptions of brilliant and innovation people.

rvz 1y ago
> Have coders really psyopped themselves into thinking their job is somehow that much more special than the rest simply because it paid better due to temporarily market conditions? Yes. We don't need to pay $$$ for simply changing elements on a page or adopting the next web framework to replace another. The hype in many web technologies that lots of developers that have fell for also contributed to the low quality of the software that you use right now. All of this work to pay developers to over-engineer inefficient solutions and to give a false sense of meaningful work contributed to the "psyop" of how highly inflated their salaries were to do their jobs in the ZIRP era. And AI has shown which developer jobs it is really good at, and it is consistently good at web developer roles. So I'd expect those roles to be significantly less valuable.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  Software development is a lot more than web development.
- layer8 1y ago
  AI is good at web developer roles because that’s what has been most prevalent in the training material.
danielbln 1y ago
This begins the golden age of creative generalists (until that's also in the chopping block).
- bix6 1y ago
  Is it? We’re more specialized than ever imo.
- NBJack 1y ago
  Joke's on us; this is going to rapidly drain what little creativity there is in places like Amazon as they rely increasingly more on a tool that at best intelligently regurgitates what it learned/gleaned/stole from the internet. As the AI models are further trained on their own slop, the signal to noise ratio will only get worse; this has already been noted in studies.
rxtexit 1y ago
Yes, this is the nature of being spoiled rotten. I am not a software engineer and have never felt stable in my 30 year career. It always feels like the rug could get pulled out from under me at any time. So what? It is still better than working in coal mine. It is still more interesting than working at a gas station. Hard to feel sorry for people basically complaining the work ping pong table doesn't have quite the quality ping pong balls they were expecting. It is an interesting mix of being both super elitist and completely infantile at the same time.
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rvz 1y ago

> Have coders really psyopped themselves into thinking their job is somehow that much more special than the rest simply because it paid better due to temporarily market conditions? Yes. We don't need to pay $$$ for simply changing elements on a page or adopting the next web framework to replace another. The hype in many web technologies that lots of developers that have fell for also contributed to the low quality of the software that you use right now. All of this work to pay developers to over-engineer inefficient solutions and to give a false sense of meaningful work contributed to the "psyop" of how highly inflated their salaries were to do their jobs in the ZIRP era. And AI has shown which developer jobs it is really good at, and it is consistently good at web developer roles. So I'd expect those roles to be significantly less valuable.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Software development is a lot more than web development.
layer8 1y ago
AI is good at web developer roles because that’s what has been most prevalent in the training material.

danielbln 1y ago

This begins the golden age of creative generalists (until that's also in the chopping block).

bix6 1y ago
Is it? We’re more specialized than ever imo.
NBJack 1y ago
Joke's on us; this is going to rapidly drain what little creativity there is in places like Amazon as they rely increasingly more on a tool that at best intelligently regurgitates what it learned/gleaned/stole from the internet. As the AI models are further trained on their own slop, the signal to noise ratio will only get worse; this has already been noted in studies.

rxtexit 1y ago

Yes, this is the nature of being spoiled rotten. I am not a software engineer and have never felt stable in my 30 year career. It always feels like the rug could get pulled out from under me at any time. So what? It is still better than working in coal mine. It is still more interesting than working at a gas station. Hard to feel sorry for people basically complaining the work ping pong table doesn't have quite the quality ping pong balls they were expecting. It is an interesting mix of being both super elitist and completely infantile at the same time.

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