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Personally I feel a bit sad and annoyed sometimes, lots of folks I know that are working in some non technical roles e.g. lawyers in public departments or docto
by ThePhysicist 1mo ago
Personally I feel a bit sad and annoyed sometimes, lots of folks I know that are working in some non technical roles e.g. lawyers in public departments or doctors in medecine come to me to show me their apps and tools and data science scripts they've written, and I have to admit their work looks totally respectable and they get it published on the app store. It can be a bit demoralizing as I feel like IT/software doesn't have any protected spaces for us engineers, whereas e.g. my friends in medecine or law feel fine as even though AI might come up with diagnoses or law expertise it won't be legally allowed to replace their function as there's a ton of red tape to ensue only certified lawyers and doctors can practice law or medecine. There's nothing like that in software engineering (at least in most fields) so in principle every "hack" can let their vibe coded data science results, software or script loose on the world. To a degree it feels quite disprespectful even. But it has always been like that I guess.
- johnthesinger 1mo agoExactly this. If those old-school professions didn't have protections they gained from lobbing for dozens of years, they would be facing the same reality we are. If you think about it, a lawyer is an ideal profession to replace with AI. To a large extend doctors diagnosing based on inputs is the same. But they have the keys in form of their diplomas.
- iamflimflam1 1mo agoA lot of low level lawyer work is being replaced by AI.
- johnthesinger 1mo agoyes, the difference is that ALL levels of SWE work is being replaced...