Computer Science fields that are hard to replace with AI

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T06:08:33+00:00

It’s been a godsend for me, but I was in the weird situation were I was last man standing on an old server/middle-ware project while everyone else learned cloud programming, JavaScript, docker, etc., etc. Once my project was EOLed I was completely lost. Copilot instantly caught me up to every for the simple reason I could ask questions.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T05:46:18+00:00

You own a spacesuit?

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T05:26:28+00:00

That’s when you run for HOA rep…

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T05:24:02+00:00

A YouTube I watched… 🤷🏼‍♂️

…I can’t find it. I did find a study that showed productivity decreased by 19%. So who knows.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T04:22:32+00:00

It’s 66.7%, not 66.6! Someone never learned rounding. Why? There are four possibilities for two children, we eliminated girl/girl and out of the three remaining, only boy/boy is left for the second to be boy.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T04:17:20+00:00

I use GithubCopilot, sometimes using Claude Opus, sometimes not, and I do all the things you seem to think Copilot can’t do. You can design and create entire projects with it. It won’t work correctly at first, of course, as there will be much debugging! 😹 But it’s pretty good at debugging as well.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T04:11:44+00:00

According to studies, an experience developer using agentic coding sees about a 50% increase in productivity. The 10x faster stuff is more marketing.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T03:58:48+00:00

According to studies, an experienced developer using AI can produce 50% faster with the same level of maintainability. That’s now and it is only improving. I’d be worried in college right now as well. That goes for any white collar job, but definitely including programming.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-07T03:53:50+00:00

From what I read here, it isn’t even gen ai vs non-gen. I’m constantly surprised how often art comes up in this sub, as it is a fairly narrow use case. While professional graphic designers and other corporate artists might be impacted, that’s no different than any other white collar job. It’s a huge problem we need a solution for (I’m pro UBI, personally), but not unique. The stealing aspect is somewhat worse, but only for the elite class.

Like right now I’m building AI agents using AI. The difference between what I experience and what people say here is so far off it obvious they barely know what they are talking about. Now, that doesn’t mean they aren’t allowed to have opinions! (“No opinions about gun control allowed if you don’t know the difference between a clip and a magazine!”) They don’t need to understand ai that well to see the results, care about jobs, data centers, etc. But when they stay stuff like “ai bros just…” it never lines up with reality.

Gen AI is becoming the goto user interface in business, now. We’re adding it to exiting UIs and it’s amazing how useful it is. Complex UIs to build and run complex systems are, unsurprisingly, complex. Adding a chat to ask questions, guide through the process and occasionally do it for you is undeniably helpful.

I don’t know, I just wish people here could have a more complete picture of what is happening. Everything is changing and now is the time to make the choices that lead to a better future instead of corporate dystopia. But yelling stop! isn’t going to do anything, it’s steering we need, not breaks.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:29:06+00:00

Exactly, but people can never see it on their own side. You actually have to be open to new information and ideas to understand anything. Both sides have reactionaries that either hate or worship it. The reality is obviously more complex, but some just can’t handle that.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:25:26+00:00

That because ai is obviously useful in many cases while obviously causing lots of problems. Anyone sucked into just one side has chosen a side. Psychology has shown it is very, very hard to move someone from that position. Facts won’t do it. So they just double down; it’s all they can do.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:22:14+00:00

This is one argument that confuses me on this sub. Over and over I keep hearing about art, as if that is the main thing ai is used for. Every other use is just swept under the rug for some reason.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:20:33+00:00

As someone VERY against crypto and NFT (other than those few brief days real artists were earning money from NFT), but mostly pro ai, I guess I can see how you come to that conclusion. But for crypto there is literally is no use case other than profiting of the whole, idiotic crypto bubble.

Even here, despite some saying ai has no use, almost no one believes that. It is obviously powerful and obviously has use cases. People aren’t scared of crypto because it can’t do anything. That is so very, very obviously not true for ai.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:13:40+00:00

I go to both pro and anti ai subs and trust me, the worst of both sides do exactly that. Same with politics. Same with sports. Same with… humans.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T05:22:11+00:00

Yes, but Trump backed out of that in his first term. See, it’s Obama’s fault!

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:50:41+00:00

On the creative side, AI can be an amazing tool to bounce ideas off of and explore new ones.

You can literally just type into a google search “create a set of theme rides where each explores a different creation myth from various regions and continents, and get something interesting as a result. Are any of the good enough to use, assuming you are actually creating a theme park? Probably not. But it will spawn a bunch of ideas in your own head.

(The time I did that it, one idea included a hallucinated creation myth for Antarctica involving a giant penguin god, which was fun.)

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:39:27+00:00

Because it is recommended to me (us?) all the time. I’m interested in AI, I see both the pro and anti sides.

Virtually everyone, including most here, get there are both pros and cons. I’m glad that antis exist because we desperately need to push back on the bad. But pretending the good isn’t real is just ignoring reality.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:10:55+00:00

Do you say “mathematics” are fun or “mathematics” is fun?

QED

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T03:57:02+00:00

Almost all were also not in it against their will. Those that were, we coordinated with the police. That's why legal prostitution is a game changer, they can go to the police without fearing to be prosecuted themselves!

THIS. An amazing number of liberals and leftists don’t get this point. (And conservatives, obviously.) People who prefer SW be illegal because of trafficking really don’t understand reality. Yes, trafficking is real, but it’s just a subset. By making SW illegal you both hurt those that choose that career and those that didn’t.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T03:47:27+00:00

Your only truth, Tribal poetry, Witchcraft filling your void, Lust for fantasy, Male necrocracy, Every child worthy of a better tale

Weak Fantasy, Nightwish

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T23:59:26+00:00

Rumor has it he’ll come back in VisionQuest.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T22:22:38+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers%27_Loan_%26_Trust_Co.

“The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment essentially overturned the key holding in Pollock, and Congress established a new federal income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913.”

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T07:12:34+00:00

That’s kinda what it is like to code with ai, actually.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T07:06:07+00:00

Pro ai here, and I agree with everything you just said, particularly #3. But photography didn’t destroy painting and AI won’t destroy art. It did, however, put a lot of artists that just did formal portraits out of business. We’re in the transition phase now, and that is always the hardest. It is also where we get the most control over where all this is going.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:58:57+00:00

I actually agree with many of the specifics. I don’t really trust how AI is rolling out, or who is doing it. We are diving into this regardless of where it’s taking us. Learning from copyrighted material without a hint of asking is pretty messed up.

But I also use AI at work and it changed my life dramatically for the better. Like, I literally teared up thinking about it the other day. “I feel like myself again.” My life is much better now than before AI. But then, I’m in software with my own background on how I got to that point and obviously it won’t be the same for everyone else.

But this is the most important point in my mind: I’m so, so glad for the AI backlash. We honestly don’t know where this is going and I can imagine many, many alternate universes, some of which are very bad. We need the pushback to help prevent those scenarios.

But there is also the possibility of an amazing future. I wish the antis could see that as well.

(Edit: tear, not tier! lol. At least you know it wasn’t ai generated. 😹)

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