4 ms·

I'm 100% in favor of people doing what they love, if that's hand coding, have a ball. I'm sick to death of people trying to grandstand, flag wave and chest pou

I'm 100% in favor of people doing what they love, if that's hand coding, have a ball. I'm sick to death of people trying to grandstand, flag wave and chest pound about "the evils of AI" and "the failings of AI." You hate billionaires and you're afraid of losing your job, I get it, stop trying to propagandize and just do the thing you love to do as if AI didn't exist. If I meet someone who hand carves stuff, if it's good I'm into it. If they start to rave about the evils of machines I nope tf out and never return.

trollbridge 9mo ago
The endless prattle about "you must embrace AI now or be locked out forever" is much more tiresome. If AI is really going to be so ubiquitous (and also replace all current skill categories), then I can just wait a year or two for AI to improve and go learn it then, right?
- CuriouslyC 9mo ago
  As someone who's said something like that several times, I'm fine with never saying it again. I did it because I really do believe the bottom of the job market is going to fall out for engineers that aren't capable with AI and I was trying to be helpful, but if the people hand coding are aware of the risks and accept them, shrug you do you.
  - trollbridge 9mo ago
    It just doesn't make sense. "There's this new big thing coming that does all your work for you." "Okay?" "So it's imperative that you learn how to do this new thing or you'll never be able to work again." In reality, the skills needed to use AI effectively are the same ones needed to be a competent programmer in the era of Visual Basic, or CASE, or in the era of COBOL, or any of the other things promised to eliminate junior programmers. The idea of an engineer "not capable with AI" yet who can somehow hand-write code also baffles me. Do these people actually exist?

4 ms·

I'm 100% in favor of people doing what they love, if that's hand coding, have a ball. I'm sick to death of people trying to grandstand, flag wave and chest pou

by CuriouslyC 9mo ago

trollbridge 9mo ago
The endless prattle about "you must embrace AI now or be locked out forever" is much more tiresome. If AI is really going to be so ubiquitous (and also replace all current skill categories), then I can just wait a year or two for AI to improve and go learn it then, right?
- CuriouslyC 9mo ago
  As someone who's said something like that several times, I'm fine with never saying it again. I did it because I really do believe the bottom of the job market is going to fall out for engineers that aren't capable with AI and I was trying to be helpful, but if the people hand coding are aware of the risks and accept them, shrug you do you.
  - trollbridge 9mo ago
    It just doesn't make sense. "There's this new big thing coming that does all your work for you." "Okay?" "So it's imperative that you learn how to do this new thing or you'll never be able to work again." In reality, the skills needed to use AI effectively are the same ones needed to be a competent programmer in the era of Visual Basic, or CASE, or in the era of COBOL, or any of the other things promised to eliminate junior programmers. The idea of an engineer "not capable with AI" yet who can somehow hand-write code also baffles me. Do these people actually exist?