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> For the first time, tech feels like the 90's-00's again. It feels like the opposite of 90s - 00s: they were filled with periods where a person could self-stu

> For the first time, tech feels like the 90's-00's again. It feels like the opposite of 90s - 00s: they were filled with periods where a person could self-study technology and get a job using those skills that few others had. Where we are going (according to the AI-proponents) is children being able to replace you. In brief; the 90s - 00s were a skill-valuation time, now we are looking at a skill devaluation time. Unless you meant to say "Just like how any kid who could write broken HTML t put up a webpage could pretend to be a skilled professional, that's where we are now"...

kbrannigan 2mo ago
We used to get paid to code now we think we need to pay a subscription fee just to write software. They push marketing campaigns saying Manual coding no more, just vibe code, gain 10x speed for $100. Then they hit you with hourly and weekly limits, you are wondering when you are going to get cut off. Since LLM at probabilistic it often feels like pulling the lever of a slot machine, hoping our prompt is the jackpot. To make sure we win, we come up with systems, convoluted agents, context pipelines, rags to load . It feels like it's working, then bam you reach weekly limits. (Just pay more if you want to keep winning). I think developers need to wake up. I myself started to use AI like a fancy debugger ,explainer. I make it walk me though every single line of code it writes. I notice that i run into limits less, if i get cutoff, i can still make changes
- chermi 2mo ago
  As we've clearly seen, technology is static and the price to performance will never go down. And never be infiltrated by open source.
  - kbrannigan 2mo ago
    I'm not trust I was meant to be sarcastic or if you're serious I cant tell Is it true?
    - echelon 2mo ago
      Look at what open source is doing to the market. The sand magic will be free and abundant for all. The only thing you have to worry about is regulatory capture - if Dario and Sam can convince the US government to regulate and outlaw open source AI, then we're in for a world of hurt.

kbrannigan 2mo ago

We used to get paid to code now we think we need to pay a subscription fee just to write software. They push marketing campaigns saying Manual coding no more, just vibe code, gain 10x speed for $100. Then they hit you with hourly and weekly limits, you are wondering when you are going to get cut off. Since LLM at probabilistic it often feels like pulling the lever of a slot machine, hoping our prompt is the jackpot. To make sure we win, we come up with systems, convoluted agents, context pipelines, rags to load . It feels like it's working, then bam you reach weekly limits. (Just pay more if you want to keep winning). I think developers need to wake up. I myself started to use AI like a fancy debugger ,explainer. I make it walk me though every single line of code it writes. I notice that i run into limits less, if i get cutoff, i can still make changes

chermi 2mo ago
As we've clearly seen, technology is static and the price to performance will never go down. And never be infiltrated by open source.
- kbrannigan 2mo ago
  I'm not trust I was meant to be sarcastic or if you're serious I cant tell Is it true?
  - echelon 2mo ago
    Look at what open source is doing to the market. The sand magic will be free and abundant for all. The only thing you have to worry about is regulatory capture - if Dario and Sam can convince the US government to regulate and outlaw open source AI, then we're in for a world of hurt.