I think of AI as 3 things: 1. A toy for those who don't really care 2. An advanced copy paste tool for the stupid 3. An advanced lookup tool for the smart
I think of current AI as only one thing: A SUPER cool tool to create LSD acid art, because frankly, that's the ONLY thing that current AI is good at. It absolutely sucks at math, physics, science, logic or anything else which requires either coherency or consistency. It's absolutely great at hallucinating videos & images if you're on acid & you really don't care how things relate to each other.
80% of programming jobs utterly braindead. If LLM context window grows to cover a reasonably-sided codebase, it will be able to make your frontend React app. There are many good engineers who genuinely love the art of programming working in such positions, for the simple reason that you need money to buy food and not die. Even if you don't care that those people are out of a job, and even if you work in a complex position that LLM has no hope of filling, the job market shrinking 5x is still terrible for you, because - again - there are extremely overqualified people working these positions who will now compete with you for the remaining "real jobs". "Real jobs" aren't 100% safe either - whether or not the LLM can do your job is besides the point, the real concern is whether or not some manager *believes* that the LLM can do your job, and LLMs are infamously good at pretending to be good at things.
100%. Even if the LLM generates ”worse” code, how will you compete with it being free? Who’s going to pay you $150k to build a web app like every one else, when the LLM can do it for free?
No matter what AI does there will still be jobs. They'll be different and people will have to adjust and change, but that's life. The economy is bad right now not because of AI but because of our stupid idealistic government (voted for by stupid people). Started in the 1930s with FDR and the welfare state.
Had to click when I was this title. My sentiments exactly. I've seen many of the type of programmer you mentioned along the way of my career. They'll be out, the thinkers will find their place no matter how the tools change. Godspeed to you in your career dude. Stick with it (I'm sure you plan to anyway).
brothers, it is the perfect time to start learning: don't fall in the mind-trap thinking you missed the boat as the first ship has not even left the docks. You can't go wrong with python for Generative UI/Machine learning skills.
Even if the specific language you learn becomes obsolete you'll have gained intellectual growth and experience in problem solving. That's the stuff that really matters.
People who have a limited understanding of AI/ML, yet very strong opinions of it, always seem to miss the trajectory, the exponential improvement of capabilities. They say things like ”AI can only produce low quality code” or ”AI can only produce boiler plate stuff we copy paste”. See where it was just 5 years ago. Try to understand where we are heading.
My experience using AI - it's fantastic until it starts just making sht up as it goes. Human potential of fucking up is infinite, but AI can come up with infinite ways of infinitely fucking up.
ai ist gonna make it easier to program we'll be able to just type in what we want and it can generate what we wanted or if its not exactly it we'd still be able to ask for certain adjustments but yeah if bad people use it to get hacking programs and all it'll be a nightmare
To all the people that don’t understand his take is. C-level decision makers can be really stupid. Specially to technical decisions, HOWEVER they are pushing to reducing costs (by cutting resources and overloading the ones that are left trying to keep same throughput) No AI, afaik, can debug an application. The US tech economy is kinda crazy too tbh, 250k+ for people joining the area? lol
To your last point about people calling for the ban of AI, it is important to understand the dynamics within the society. ChatGPT, Mid-journey and Stable Diffusion were released a few years ago, were they cool stuff? Yes. Did they cause entire industries to fire workers? Also yes. The problem was never the tech, it has always been the "stupid" rich people that own the tech. They want to build a system where they can put in as little input to production as possible while demanding as much as possible for their products. In a society where everyone is out of a job due to AI replacing everyone and no one can purchase anything, do you see how quickly society would collapse? The ironic thing is that these tools were fed data/content you and I produce. If people did not have to worry about if they could survive if any form of tech advancement was made, do you really think they'd be opposed to it?
Rich people can be dumb emotional thinkers. As long as they're allowed to fail and don't get a bail out the market can work like it's supposed to. For the people call for a ban on AI, they're just modern day luddites. The world has always been better for technological advances. AI is just another technological advance.
@@andrewtc95 you're still not getting it, it has nothing to do with being stuck in the past and everything to do with having a future. You still operate under this magical thinking that wealthy people, the people holding most of the power, also follow the same rules as you and I, if they fail, they WILL get bailed out because they understand full well that the individualistic, self made man is a fallacy that is only meant for the poors.
To some extent I agree, but I also think there's just always going to be a sort of "lower class" in any given field - people who probably just need to keep a bigger rainy day fund because they're more disposable by nature. They just need to always be prepared to train for paradigm changes. The bigger problem that makes life unnecessarily hard for people like this is government inference which subsidize the parasite class at the true lower class's expense.
@@andrewtc95 We have that underbelly and always have...people who have been "mediocre" at their jobs will always be that "lower class" so to speak because they provide less value than the specialists or 10x dev. I think the political discussion of government warrants an entirely different discussion, because you're not wrong about that.
@@WiggleWizard The lower class are always going to have to go with the flow so to speak. If industries change, they have to retrain. If industries are taken out entirely, they have to find new ones. That's just the natural order. The problem comes in when people try to change things through politics, which is why voting needs to be restricted. Like I said, the lower class is being unnecessarily hurt right now but not by AI or greedy rich corporations. By the parasite class - a class that shouldn't even exist but does because of government subsidies. But unfortunately everyone blames the wrong factors.
Liked for the title, stayed for your insight. I've thought about this a little bit more recently and I agree. If you're a programmer and are deathly afraid of AI taking your job, maybe take a step back and reevaluate your own skills. Either you don't know enough and are still new, or you rely too heavily on Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and ChatGPT. I've hinted at this a little bit in a blog post of my own and was thinking about writing something more dedicated to this topic too. Side note: (don't tell us you have a project portfolio and NOT link it in the description!)
The real issue is the short term impact of managers being cautious with hiring due to the economy, and they also think that their new coders will be replaced. We won’t, but managers think that for now, so the short term impact is a real thing but it won’t last.
@@Kannatron oh yeah I definitely understand the short term impact. But I've heard of some fresh grads or beginner programmers geniunely question whether this is a viable career for the long term, like software jobs won't exist in the next 15-20 years
I didn't post my portfolio because I like to keep my professional life and my UA-cam channel separate. I've said some controversial things on this channel. Not career ending stuff but stuff I'd rather not have attached to my professional stuff. If it gets out it's not the end of the world, but I'd rather keep things separate. I definitely think a lot of people want to get by copy pasting. They're basically the modern day luddites. I think what they don't realize is there's always going to be low end jobs for people like them. But they'll probably have to adjust and learn new things. And God forbid people make changes to their routine.
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I think of AI as 3 things:
1. A toy for those who don't really care
2. An advanced copy paste tool for the stupid
3. An advanced lookup tool for the smart
I think of current AI as only one thing:
A SUPER cool tool to create LSD acid art, because frankly, that's the ONLY thing that current AI is good at.
It absolutely sucks at math, physics, science, logic or anything else which requires either coherency or consistency.
It's absolutely great at hallucinating videos & images if you're on acid & you really don't care how things relate to each other.
80% of programming jobs utterly braindead. If LLM context window grows to cover a reasonably-sided codebase, it will be able to make your frontend React app. There are many good engineers who genuinely love the art of programming working in such positions, for the simple reason that you need money to buy food and not die.
Even if you don't care that those people are out of a job, and even if you work in a complex position that LLM has no hope of filling, the job market shrinking 5x is still terrible for you, because - again - there are extremely overqualified people working these positions who will now compete with you for the remaining "real jobs".
"Real jobs" aren't 100% safe either - whether or not the LLM can do your job is besides the point, the real concern is whether or not some manager *believes* that the LLM can do your job, and LLMs are infamously good at pretending to be good at things.
100%. Even if the LLM generates ”worse” code, how will you compete with it being free? Who’s going to pay you $150k to build a web app like every one else, when the LLM can do it for free?
No matter what AI does there will still be jobs. They'll be different and people will have to adjust and change, but that's life. The economy is bad right now not because of AI but because of our stupid idealistic government (voted for by stupid people). Started in the 1930s with FDR and the welfare state.
@@andrewtc95 "voted for by stupid people" I'm not exactly blown away by your massive intellect.
@@archvaldor You don't need to have a massive intellect. You just need to not be stupid. Or just not an emotional voter.
Had to click when I was this title. My sentiments exactly. I've seen many of the type of programmer you mentioned along the way of my career. They'll be out, the thinkers will find their place no matter how the tools change. Godspeed to you in your career dude. Stick with it (I'm sure you plan to anyway).
I just fear people in general.
brothers, it is the perfect time to start learning: don't fall in the mind-trap thinking you missed the boat as the first ship has not even left the docks. You can't go wrong with python for Generative UI/Machine learning skills.
Even if the specific language you learn becomes obsolete you'll have gained intellectual growth and experience in problem solving. That's the stuff that really matters.
Thank you. I was literally saying the same. We're just gonna end up with dumber people because people are gonna be lazier
People who have a limited understanding of AI/ML, yet very strong opinions of it, always seem to miss the trajectory, the exponential improvement of capabilities. They say things like ”AI can only produce low quality code” or ”AI can only produce boiler plate stuff we copy paste”. See where it was just 5 years ago. Try to understand where we are heading.
I hope it gets better as I think it would be a great tool, but right now I just don't see it. Sounds too good to be true.
My experience using AI - it's fantastic until it starts just making sht up as it goes. Human potential of fucking up is infinite, but AI can come up with infinite ways of infinitely fucking up.
ai ist gonna make it easier to program we'll be able to just type in what we want and it can generate what we wanted or if its not exactly it we'd still be able to ask for certain adjustments
but yeah if bad people use it to get hacking programs and all it'll be a nightmare
To all the people that don’t understand his take is.
C-level decision makers can be really stupid. Specially to technical decisions, HOWEVER they are pushing to reducing costs (by cutting resources and overloading the ones that are left trying to keep same throughput)
No AI, afaik, can debug an application.
The US tech economy is kinda crazy too tbh, 250k+ for people joining the area? lol
Damn, I feel the title. I myself am very dumb but some of these people are so much worse. Stupid people will ruin the world.
Best title ever.
To your last point about people calling for the ban of AI, it is important to understand the dynamics within the society. ChatGPT, Mid-journey and Stable Diffusion were released a few years ago, were they cool stuff? Yes. Did they cause entire industries to fire workers? Also yes.
The problem was never the tech, it has always been the "stupid" rich people that own the tech. They want to build a system where they can put in as little input to production as possible while demanding as much as possible for their products. In a society where everyone is out of a job due to AI replacing everyone and no one can purchase anything, do you see how quickly society would collapse?
The ironic thing is that these tools were fed data/content you and I produce. If people did not have to worry about if they could survive if any form of tech advancement was made, do you really think they'd be opposed to it?
Rich people can be dumb emotional thinkers. As long as they're allowed to fail and don't get a bail out the market can work like it's supposed to. For the people call for a ban on AI, they're just modern day luddites. The world has always been better for technological advances. AI is just another technological advance.
@@andrewtc95 you're still not getting it, it has nothing to do with being stuck in the past and everything to do with having a future.
You still operate under this magical thinking that wealthy people, the people holding most of the power, also follow the same rules as you and I, if they fail, they WILL get bailed out because they understand full well that the individualistic, self made man is a fallacy that is only meant for the poors.
Atc diddy
The way I see it is: if you're worried about AI taking your job, you should reconsider your talent within that field
Or the brain of the CEOs, artists specifically have it a bit rough rn cuz of those idiots.
Then i hope you already started pursuing something else!
To some extent I agree, but I also think there's just always going to be a sort of "lower class" in any given field - people who probably just need to keep a bigger rainy day fund because they're more disposable by nature. They just need to always be prepared to train for paradigm changes. The bigger problem that makes life unnecessarily hard for people like this is government inference which subsidize the parasite class at the true lower class's expense.
@@andrewtc95 We have that underbelly and always have...people who have been "mediocre" at their jobs will always be that "lower class" so to speak because they provide less value than the specialists or 10x dev.
I think the political discussion of government warrants an entirely different discussion, because you're not wrong about that.
@@WiggleWizard The lower class are always going to have to go with the flow so to speak. If industries change, they have to retrain. If industries are taken out entirely, they have to find new ones. That's just the natural order.
The problem comes in when people try to change things through politics, which is why voting needs to be restricted.
Like I said, the lower class is being unnecessarily hurt right now but not by AI or greedy rich corporations. By the parasite class - a class that shouldn't even exist but does because of government subsidies. But unfortunately everyone blames the wrong factors.
Liked for the title, stayed for your insight. I've thought about this a little bit more recently and I agree. If you're a programmer and are deathly afraid of AI taking your job, maybe take a step back and reevaluate your own skills. Either you don't know enough and are still new, or you rely too heavily on Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and ChatGPT. I've hinted at this a little bit in a blog post of my own and was thinking about writing something more dedicated to this topic too.
Side note: (don't tell us you have a project portfolio and NOT link it in the description!)
The real issue is the short term impact of managers being cautious with hiring due to the economy, and they also think that their new coders will be replaced. We won’t, but managers think that for now, so the short term impact is a real thing but it won’t last.
@@Kannatron oh yeah I definitely understand the short term impact. But I've heard of some fresh grads or beginner programmers geniunely question whether this is a viable career for the long term, like software jobs won't exist in the next 15-20 years
I didn't post my portfolio because I like to keep my professional life and my UA-cam channel separate. I've said some controversial things on this channel. Not career ending stuff but stuff I'd rather not have attached to my professional stuff. If it gets out it's not the end of the world, but I'd rather keep things separate.
I definitely think a lot of people want to get by copy pasting. They're basically the modern day luddites. I think what they don't realize is there's always going to be low end jobs for people like them. But they'll probably have to adjust and learn new things. And God forbid people make changes to their routine.
Bro look like young Richard Stallman ☠
You gay
@@nwic nah bro, just look up old Richard Stallman interview, he just looks like him
@@iusearchbtw69 which one is it now - old richard stallman or young richard stallman???
@@alexvitkov What i'm trying to say is an "old" videos of interview of young Richard Stallman
@@iusearchbtw69 weird how old richard stallman was younger. makes u think