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I am seriously concerned that, despite 20 years of coding, I might not be able to anymore

by mikestorrent 1mo ago

theredleft 1mo ago
the AI fugue has handicapped our workforce
- mikestorrent 29d ago
  I think it's true
rikthevik 1mo ago
Sure you can. It'll just take a little while to shake the rust off. It's like riding a bike. Or maybe it's all gone forever and we're all brain damaged now. Spooky! I think there's a pretty low probability of that, and even if it was true, worrying doesn't help!
henry2023 1mo ago
noaifridays.com
m4rtink 1mo ago
Turns out depending on a cloud service you have no control over for a critical capability - such as coding - is not a good idea. ;-)
- esperent 1mo ago
  However it's not a worse idea than all the other things we rely on cloud services for like banking, healthcare, booking a taxi, ordering food, navigation, communication...
- r_lee 1mo ago
  ;-) as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution I don't get how this is a gotcha, there simply is no world where everyone has their own self hosted frontier model
  - zahlman 1mo ago
    > as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution People like GGP who have been coding for 20 years presumably are perfectly capable of doing so by hand. Or should be.
    - awakeasleep 1mo ago
      A lot of times you run into senior developers are even staff engineers who have no idea how the big picture works like they don’t know what an IP address is. I bet AI coding leaves them (and even the rest of us!) productive in areas where we’re in way over our heads, and we could just completely sink without it.
    - r_lee 1mo ago
      nobody is paying engineers for "capable of", they're paying for performance and results.. if there was no difference in performance or results, nobody would be using LLMs or agent harnesses like claude code
      - killix 1mo ago
        [flagged]
bdangubic 1mo ago
just google what's the command to checkout git branch :)

I am seriously concerned that, despite 20 years of coding, I might not be able to anymore

theredleft 1mo ago

the AI fugue has handicapped our workforce

mikestorrent 29d ago
I think it's true

rikthevik 1mo ago

Sure you can. It'll just take a little while to shake the rust off. It's like riding a bike. Or maybe it's all gone forever and we're all brain damaged now. Spooky! I think there's a pretty low probability of that, and even if it was true, worrying doesn't help!

henry2023 1mo ago

noaifridays.com

m4rtink 1mo ago

Turns out depending on a cloud service you have no control over for a critical capability - such as coding - is not a good idea. ;-)

esperent 1mo ago
However it's not a worse idea than all the other things we rely on cloud services for like banking, healthcare, booking a taxi, ordering food, navigation, communication...
r_lee 1mo ago
;-) as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution I don't get how this is a gotcha, there simply is no world where everyone has their own self hosted frontier model
- zahlman 1mo ago
  > as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution People like GGP who have been coding for 20 years presumably are perfectly capable of doing so by hand. Or should be.
  - awakeasleep 1mo ago
    A lot of times you run into senior developers are even staff engineers who have no idea how the big picture works like they don’t know what an IP address is. I bet AI coding leaves them (and even the rest of us!) productive in areas where we’re in way over our heads, and we could just completely sink without it.
  - r_lee 1mo ago
    nobody is paying engineers for "capable of", they're paying for performance and results.. if there was no difference in performance or results, nobody would be using LLMs or agent harnesses like claude code
    - killix 1mo ago
      [flagged]

bdangubic 1mo ago

just google what's the command to checkout git branch :)