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I can agree with a lot of that, and I'd add I'm frankly fed up playing the betatester for bananaware. Even before AI got all hyped up - keeping up with the cons
by mschuster91 6mo ago
I can agree with a lot of that, and I'd add I'm frankly fed up playing the betatester for bananaware. Even before AI got all hyped up - keeping up with the constant churn, the constant feeling of "don't these people even test their own fucking code examples" was nerve-wracking. And AI made all of that infinitely worse because so, so much stuff just smells like someone had thrown a prompt into Claude Code or Openclaw or whatever and didn't even try to test it out of their specific usecase, much less actually understand it.
I left the field for good, going to study electrical engineering. Even if the planning part of that will be taken over by AI (it's inevitable), good luck to the vampire bloodsucker capitalist elites trying to design a robot wiring up plugs. Trades are the future.
- willchis 6mo ago"betatester for bananaware" hahaha amazing
- beej71 6mo agoI wonder if there is enough trades work for everyone, or if oversupply will drop the floor out of those markets, too. "AI isn't coming for your plumbing job; white collar workers are."
- danny_codes 6mo agoAI is coming for the plumbing jobs. But it’ll be a while before the embodiments get sorted out
- throwway120385 6mo agoThe problem with trades is that you'll forever be beholden to whatever dumb stuff gets designed for you to use in accordance with the code. I get why all of this stuff exists but the longer I live the more I want to retire comfortably to somewhere on acreage where nobody inspects anything because you're only endangering your own dumb self with your bad decisions.
- mschuster91 6mo agoCode rarely changes, and if it does, it's usually tame changes. If at all, you get a bunch more protection devices that are required for new installations.
- xienze 6mo ago> Trades are the future. Yep, as long as you don't mind getting undercut by illegal immigrants.
- mschuster91 6mo agoGermany requires licenses for plumbers, gas guys and electricians. You need either a trade education or an academic education.
- jitler 6mo agoAnd overworked in general. The immigrants don’t mind that part.
- jitler 6mo ago> I left the field for good, going to study electrical engineering. Aren’t most of the EE jobs in Asia now?
- mschuster91 6mo agoI'm referring to what Germany's term for EE is - people who, for example, plan the national electrical grid or large industrial plants' power stuff.