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Grifters are trying to get their 5 minutes of fame by posting some unhinged shower thought that they have. It's just that you're noticing it now, because it pops up in the feed. Previously they'd say some shit about Agile, OO
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> Domain expertise combined with a QA mindset could replace SWE, but consistent QA mindset is rare I've heard this story at least 3 times already: - Domain expertise combined with outsource could replace expensive US SWE - Domain ex
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> Writing programs (atleast efficiently) is not the easiest part. It just appears to be once you get accustomed. Programming is the easiest part! (c) decade+ experienced senior developers
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> Highly regulated domains like finance have entire books around how they should work. Ironically, LLMs are much better at understanding those than humans.
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> Agentic coding favors senior generalists with a broad experience in many things rather than narrow experience in one or two things. Is it? Agents are coming for generalists first.
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So "the real moat" are BIs and PMs equipped with LLMs? Man will I enjoy seeing this tower of babel crashing down on some heads. Unfortunately, software has tendency to survive for a long time even the shittiest conditions. Taking
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> All I know is: it's not up to me, I don't get to choose, and I have to adapt to the situation. I don't bitch about it and condemn others for doing the same. That's how Russia got into current situation, btw.
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> The web is only about 30 years old and has never existed in some fixed, ideal state. Sure it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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Almost got me there, if it wasn't for > What's wrong about AI tracking a license plate crossing every corner with your kidnapped daughter? Very subtle.
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You shouldn't. You should feel bad when they'll kick you out on the street, because Claude "does better job than lower value human capital".
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> Suggesting that nobody is entitled to opinions on one category sounds kinda silly. How else would they feel morally superior to degenerate techies who finally got what they deserve? Didn't you get the memo? It's all Joe the J
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> Controversial take: It's weird to see people in tech taking this stance. They've been riding the same wave of exploiting the average person through economies of scale for the last 20+ years, but now that it affects them, it&#
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But what about Japan? Sorry, I meant Germany. Sorry, I meant USSR. Vietnam? Iraq? Iraqistan, or was it Afghanistan? Iraq, yes! Russia, Russia! Oh, look, China! Knock, knock. Who's there? I ran.
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> Any dystopian fantasy can come true after that. Why after that? AI hasn't even kicked in yet fully and we already have millions of engineers trembling in fear. Gone the golden days of techies demanding things, corpo is back with r
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> elitist junk masquerading as logic Lol. "Déformation professionnelle" is an elitist junk these days. It's a defect, and I would gladly get rid my brain of all this programming bullshit if my life didn't depend on it
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> How utterly pointless. What would make it less pointless in your opinion?
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Man do those slop images look ugly. I’d take child scribbles over the garbage picture in the article.
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So going by your logic, you would struggle to choose between saving a human life and a dog life (assuming both are strangers to you)?
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Believe it or not, some people can feel the taste difference.
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> The OP is not going to come a pay someone who can't get a job and has zero market value due to AI. If only there was a safety net that would help struggling humans, while trillion (just imagine the numbers) dollar companies have r
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They mean put billionaires on a chopping block.
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Hahaha, worry not! AI will be the great equalizer, that will put even more people on the streets and create new serf class.
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It isn’t a great career move regardless, because if you use on prom AI they most likely monitor your prompts.
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> “Humans are valuable.” You can just say it. You can’t. CEOs will physically recoil from it. Probably leftovers from being a human some day. For them you’re “lower value human capital”, cattle, numbers on a sheet. https://for
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> buying a bottle of coke was a Birthday thing That’s not middle class. You were poor. I know that, because I was there.
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Bring a human being into this dystopia without asking them, and then demand something off them. You’re a great parent.
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Weird leap. If we go by your logic, then broom is replaced by a vacuum cleaner. Automating something completely, aka getting someone to for it for you is a completely different thing.
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Give it an LLM, maybe it can write a half-assed app that can help it drink.
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Did they massively improve working conditions, or your software job is as bad as working in an oil patch? Mine isn’t. > most people arent making a six figure salary, and have mortgage and family obligations Maybe not most, but there’s su
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> We won't all be unemployed if AI takes over white collar work. So you wouldn’t mind going from 6 figure salary to working as a cashier at Walmart, figuratively speaking? Because I sure as hell mind, given mortgage and family oblig
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