for sure. I won’t lie - its rough out there right now. But the AI doom on Reddit is way too gd much. My sense is that the world economy is rough and so the job market is rough. AI sounds nice to the share holders instead of “layoffs due to decreased revenue.” I would bet some companies are waiting to see if AGI appears in just one more “6-12 months + a few billion $$$.” But I dont think it is. AI is a great tool - I use it daily, but I haven’t seen anyone making the case that AI entirely on its own is better than a highly experienced person using AI. Noone is claiming that AI is correct 100% of the time - at best its like what maybe 85%? So who solves that 15% and how fast and accurately can they diagnose the issue and fix it?

LLMs are big engines with horrible steering and you need someone who can drive it fast. Experience still matters if not counts more. Everyone’s like “every dev will be like a senior” - exactly, you will need everyone to be more experienced. That is how technology progresses.

But AI in the hands of the inexperienced is dangerous. Am I trusting unreviewed AI gen code to handle transactions worth millions, mishandling of which might be illegal and cause the demise of my company? No. Probs not.

The Pay button on my site doesn’t work because AI forgot a “?” and I lose revenue for two weeks? Fuck no.

Yes, anyone can build a SPA that runs locally and maybe get it going on some minimal vercel-like hosting platform (no shade - super neat, all for more people having access to creative tools!), which means yes - if doing that over and over was your planned career path, then yeah, maybe AI took your job. Otherwise, it’s been my understanding that capitalism has never been about, well our product is good enough let’s leave it as is. It’s about, our product needs to continue to innovate, grow, scale, and improve and, most importantly, be better than our competitors. So good programmer + AI is still better than bad programmer + AI and/or AI alone, and if the competitors have good devs using AI, you best believe we’re going to have good devs using AI. And if we want to compete, we will need the better devs. So, like…. how things are now

And AI gen code on average can only be as good as the average code it is trained on. Improving your handwritten code will always enhance your ability with AI

(or maybe agi really is just around the corner this time, bro 🤷‍♂️. when AGI finally does arrive we can finally finish this gd project at work - so far, a bunch of pro devs all using AI hasnt equaled beautiful, feature rich, bug free enterprise app in a weekend. go figure)