This ship has completely sailed, imho. The LLMs write better code, syntax-wise and documentation-wise, than any human I've ever worked with, and I've worked with some real good ones.

Why bother keep paying folks $125k+ then? Might as well reallocate that towards token utilization and cut the overhead cost of business altogether.

In case you aren't trolling and want a real answer: product design and technical architecture are worth more than $125k/year. Those are both the hardest and the most interesting questions.

glad that you're taking this in stride

Jokes on these dorks, I love this shit

yeah i just know what it's like to wake up and have hundreds of people piling onto a post with a ton of hate, so

Yeah, I think a few years ago it bothered me more, now I just kinda feel pity for these people. Your life must be pretty sad if you derive pleasure from yelling at people on the internet.

Seems relevant bsky.app/profile/why....

I’ve just seen that post with 4k+ likes and the subsequent whinging. you should keep posting, i’m enjoying this lmao. they’re all threatening to delete their accounts which would be such a favour

“Decades of moderation errors must be AI’s fault”

It's always the "artists" with poorly drawn cartoon PFPs

But Why, it's not perfect, so you're not allowed to enjoy it! Also, its imperfections will never go away because as we know, things never change, let alone improve! Thirdly, I am a very rational and educated person and my stance is that your life is now forfeit! etc. pp.

this already happened, it's just a question of how fast we catch up

Totally and completely change. Within the next few years we'll be teaching different things in schools. I hope the push to edge compute ramps up to distribute the energy burden, but I'm not sure if the pendulum is ready to swing yet. What a time.

let that sink in, even

that was already the case on good days

Is there some way to see the quotes now that quoting as been disabled? I couldn't find a thingy to click.

Ill turn them back on once the screechers exhaust themselves

People equating AI to security breaches don't understand the difference between AI assisted development and vibe coding.

“no longer have typing syntax into an editor” Instead, you’ll be asked to read miles of machine-generated SQL. It’s a great career tho.

I'm so glad I retired

Mainly because I’m curious, what will be the major time sink for programmers and engineers in your opinion down the line? If say 99% of the code can be done by AI, what in your opinion is that 1% it can’t and how valuable/important? I’m genuinely curious as I’ve not done a lot of AI powered coding.

So far the consensus seems to be on two things. Deciding *what* to build, and figuring out how to design something *good.* So basically, coding is dead, programming is more alive than ever.

Yeah basically this, the taste component becomes the critical piece now. The knowing exactly what to do next actually takes a lot of time

The workload shifts from slavish codemonkeying to understanding and applying principles of design. Which, ya know, terrible news if you loved writing code, but great news for everyone else, which is realistically most people.