What happens to those people once the AI is finished?
Same thing that will happen whenever we finish the automobile.
Yet, manufacturers keep making new and various automobiles every single year so… hope you see where Im going with that.
Right, so one person can handle the workload of what 3 people (for example) used to do. Therefore AI just took those other two people’s jobs.
Read the rest of my post before hitting the reply button, as I explicitly called this out and addressed it.
Software dev with over 17 years experience here, who also uses AI a lot in his job.
Why? Because AI will take them all (or is more likely to take them all).
People are pretty stupid
How the hell would AI be able to take over… without people with CS skills to… make the… AI?
Its literally like claiming that engineers jobs will be taken over by robots… Who is going to make and design the robots…?
AI isnt going to take over our jobs, AI is a tool we use to do our jobs better/faster.
Its akin to what happened with carriage drivers when the automobile was invented. Horses lost their jobs, for sure, but cab drivers now vastly outnumber how many horse carriages we used to have.
When the cost and time to do a job goes down, demand goes up exponentially because budgets follow a curve, down to a breaking point but a breaking point we arent anywhere remotely close to.
When you halve the cost of your product, you MORE than double your demand because as price goes down, the buyers who can afford you go up EXPONENTIALLY.
So don’t worry about it, but you DO need to extremely critically be very aware of and be ready to learn how to use AI.
Also, a Comp Sci degree is a theoretical math degree focused on the theory of programming. Its not recommended for a practical path in life if you want to be actually making software.
Computer Sciences: Publishing papers on math theory with respect to AI, Encryption, Math, Game Theory, Set Theory, stuff like that
Computer Engineering: Designing and building hardware, and creating firmware for it. ESp32s and Arduinos go BRRRRRR. Get read to solder stuff.
Software Engineering: I wanna make programs that do stuff for people, but I demand a higher salary and in turn am eligible for more advanced work where peoples lives and safety might be at stake. However, I have to spend an extra 40 to 50 grand to get this title.
Software Developer: I wanna make programs too, but Im not gonna spend 40 grand on a fancy ring I can show off at parties and I cant call myself an “engineer” or I might get in trouble, but unless the stuff Im working on involves human lives/safety or mission critical things like bank software, no one gives a shit. You’ll make less money but also have a waaay eaiser time finding work
Make sure you know which one you want and pick accordingly.
TERFs are pretty widely hated already by most reasonable people who know what they are.
Ah, fuck, yep, I had it the other way around yeah.
I thought like, canonically, avada kedavra fucks up your soul or whatever everytime you use it and it slowly corrupts you or something
So it has a downside.
Also, to work, you have to be able to mean it and basically be a psychopath for it to even work right.
Isn’t there explanations for why people dont just use it willy nilly?
See my other post about how beauty can literally be found in anything, and how the practice of art is a lot like working out a muscle group. The act of finding beauty takes practice, its nothing to be ashamed about lacking as a practiced skill, but anyone can gain that skill by working at it.
But once you can find beauty in anything, even an apple sitting on a plate, it does become easier to find beauty in anything else, including oneself.
Did you have MCP tooling setup so it can get lsp feedback? This helps a lot with code quality as it’ll see warnings/hints/suggestions from the lsp
Unit tests. Unit tests. Unit tests. Unit tests.
I cannot stress enough how much less stupid LLMs get when they jave proper solid Unit tests to run themselves and compare expected vs actual outcomes.
Instead of reasoning out “it should do this” they can just run the damn test and find out.
They’ll iterate on it til it actually works and then you can look at it and confirm if its good or not.
I use Sonnet 4.5 / 4.6 extensively and, yes, its prone to getting the answer almost right but a wrong in the end.
But the unit tests catch this, and it corrects.
Example: I am working on my own fame engine with monogame and its about 95% vibe coded.
This transform math is almost 100% vibe coded: https://github.com/SteffenBlake/Atomic.Net/blob/main/MonoGame/Atomic.Net.MonoGame/Transform/TransformRegistry.cs
The reason its solid is because of this: https://github.com/SteffenBlake/Atomic.Net/blob/main/MonoGame/Atomic.Net.MonoGame.Tests/Transform/Integrations/TransformRegistryIntegrationTests.cs
Also vibe coded and then sanity checked by me by hand to confirm the math checks out for the tests.
And yes, it caught multiple bugs, but the agent automatically could respond to that, fix the bug, rerun the tests, and iterate til everything was solid.
Test Driven Development is huge for making agents self police their own code.
that’s still really hard to do when you don’t like how you look.
Never said it was easy, just that it was important!
One of the best ways I found to discover beauty was practicing art. The process of discovering beauty in anything and anyone makes it a lot less challenging to then find beauty in yourself.
When you can look at a mark on your body and go “I love how this breaks up the negative space and adds an interesting dynamic rhythm to my features” you are on the path.
The human body is full of beautiful curves, contours, patterns, shapes.
And so are apples.
If I can find beauty in a picture of an apple sitting on a table, it sure isnt more challenging to see the same of my own reflection haha.
Some need awareness that external validation exists
Hard disagree, external validation is not a fundamental need.
Any perception that it is, is an internalized mental blocker (likely due to countless years of social conditioning)
Your cage is made of out of sticks.
But what if I am the one who hates my body the most
That is still the only opinion that matters.
Matters, in the sense of “should determine action”
If 100 millionnpeople say you are ugly, they can go fuck themselves.
But if you say you are ugly, that matters and should be addressed and worked on.
I dunno Beholders have a tendency to think pretty highly of themselves though… 🤔
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I actually dislike this.
The narrative that your value comes from external validation is one you see a lot.
But a person shouldn’t be told that “you are beautiful based on another persons perspective” because that cuts both ways.
If you tell them this, it can easily be flipped around to say “okay but theres 10 million people on the internet who would love to call you ugly so thats 10 million to 1”
Instead, the only person whos opinion on your body that matters is YOU, and thats it.
And Ill keep banging that drum.
If I have a daughter, Im gonna tell her this all the time, “tell anyone who tries to convince you that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that the beholder outta keep their fuckin opinions to themself”
Theres also a massive distinction between consuming something necessary/important, vs consuming something 100% optional.
Harry Potter isnt food, shelter, or any other kind of critical necessity.
Theres literally countless better alternatives to Harry Potter media you can choose to consume from that doesnt directly put money straight into the pocket of someone actively funding direct harm
This isn’t multiple layers of washing here, that money basically goes straight towards actively harming minority groups.
Its not even a good fucking book, and I used to be a fan of it as a kid, but I went back and read my old books and… it just fuckin sucks dawg, its not good lol.
Go pick like, any other fandom at least.
I mean for what its worth, if the dude has a partner they couldve just picked the kid up, its not exactly unheard of for one partner to do drop off and the other do pick up… kind of a lukewarm take here.
The difference, when the tool is used correctly, is so massive that only someone deeply uninformed or naive would contend it.
I got about 4 entire days worth of work completed in about 5 hours yesterday at my job, thats just objective fact.
Tasks that used to take weeks now take days, and tasks that used to take days now take hours. Theres no “feeling” about this, Ive been a software developer for approaching 17 years now professionally. I know how long it takes to produce an entire gambit of integration tests for a given feature. I spend almost all of my time now reviewing mountains of code (which is fairly good quality, the machines produce fairly accurate results), and then a small amount of time refining it.
People deeply do not at all understand how dramatically the results have changed over the past 2 years, and their biases are based on how things were 2 years ago.
Sure, 2 years ago the quality was way worse, the security was bad, the enforcement almost non existent, and peoples overall skill with how to use the tools was just beginning to grow. You cant exactly be good at using a tool that only just came out.
But its been two years of very rapid improvement. Its good now. Anyone who has been using these tools and actually monitoring progression can speak to this.
Things heavily shifted about 5 months ago when competition started to really fire up between different providers, and I wont say its even close to great yet, but its definitely good, it works, its fast, and it’s pretty damn good at what I need it to do.
Go find the richest person in your local city.
You have one, they exist. Probably several in the same area.
Make it their problem.
We arnt in active physical danger.
You arent in percieved active physical danger.
If trump launches a nuke boy that sure will change lickity split tho
You know programmers who use llms believe they’re much more productive because they keep getting that dopamine hit, but when you actually measure it, they’re slower by about 20%.
Everyone keeps citing this preliminary study and ignores:
Its the equivalent of taking 12 seasoned carpenters with very little experience on industrial painting, handing them industrial grade paint guns that are misconfigured and uncalibrated, and then asking them to paint some of their work and watching them struggle… and then going “wow look at that industrial grade paint guns are so bad”
Anyone with any sense should look at that and go “thats a bogus study”
But people with intense anti-ai bias cling to that shoddy ass study with such religious fervor. Its cringe.
Every professional developer with actual training and actual proper tooling can confirm that they are indeed tremendously more productive.
Pick solder nubs on either side of the scratch that are on the same channel. You can see the channels on the board, so just trace along it and find exposed solder on either end
Amd then use a meter to check continuity on each side.
Do this for multiple traces.
But, your rule of thumb is if you cant see the copper its very likely undamaged. The scratch is white colored which means it hasn’t even gone through the protective coating yet. If you see copper then you need to worry about doing continuity tests.