Can’t believe Im being forced to make myself dumber. I really dont want to spend even more hours in front of my laptop, but looks like I have to because this whole industry is now dependent on AI.
This is the US.
Can’t believe Im being forced to make myself dumber. I really dont want to spend even more hours in front of my laptop, but looks like I have to because this whole industry is now dependent on AI.
This is the US.
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I would say as a developer you absolutely need to be comfortable using the tools and understanding the possibilities but how much you use it should be up to you within any token / licensing limits.
I remember back in the 90s when people were starting to use IDEs and other developers would use vi or emacs for everything. There was always a suspicion that each camp wasn't doing it properly! Management didn't care as long as the work got done.
Start looking for a different job, or better yet, build your own business.
Industry is changing. You either have to adapt to keep with the times or find a tech job where AI isn’t necessary - which practically speaking will become a rarity over time.
For example, at my day job, they pushed it on us, but speed of coding and technical work was not the thing that was bottlenecking productivity. Until someone gets 2 businesses in the same market doing more or less the same thing, one which does it without any AI coding, and another which uses almost exclusively AI coding, and demonstrates that the one that uses AI almost exclusively A) Has more reach B) Makes more money C) produces better quality products and D) Can actually sustain that over a long period of time, nobody has any business forcing this and claiming that "its inevitable" or "we have to use this" etc...
But that's not what's happening. These seemingly otherwise somewhat bright, so-called scientific people are not using any science at all in their conclusions and statements. Science teaches us to question, to not take something for gospel, to develop hypotheses, to test these hypotheses, to challenge. It doesn't teach us to go "Oh well, this is inevitable, let's just throw in the towel." To that end, I'm see multiple entrepreneurs and founders who feel the same way start making a difference here by starting their own businesses using ethics and scientific/engineering principles to approach it, which excites me. I don't mind leaving big tech, big moneybags behind. We should have never worshipped them in the first place.
I can personally tell you that AI has indeed increased revenue and growth and I see it every day, both in and out of my day job.
To each their own I suppose.
On a positive note: The AIs make great super search and within certain domains are effective. On a negative note: Often when I see AI used by others, I wonder if these people have heard of code libraries. :)
A lot of what is going on is FOMO...
AI Serenity Prayer "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot use AI on, Courage to use AI on the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."
I have found most bosses to be pretty damn dense, mostly interested in making sparkling reports to THEIR boss. In fact, I rated them by how fast they stole my ideas. The ideas weren't so brilliant, so I was glad to let go of them, as long as they got a life somehow.
The sharpest bosses (rare) would steal them with a week. One took about 6 years, and got them wrong. A couple of us were and are real open source junkies and argued that instead of screen-scraping various Learning Management Systems, (LMS) all of which had proprietary databases to lock school systems into their software with no possibility of export, that we give away a database schema for all schools use open source, and sell the software around it in a competitive marketplace.
It's called giving customers choice. Nahhhhhhhhhh.
He later scrawled a big brainstorm map on a board, mentioning the open source LMS, Sakai [0] Showing his deep understanding of open source, he spelled it "Sockeye".
I read tech magazines and one issue of "Fast Company" (2005) was on my desktop. When the boss entered the office for who knows what, he couldn't get his eyes off the magazine cover. It was a picture of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons with a feature article "Is Your Boss a Psychopath?" [1] I would have gotten the magazine without it, but (surprise) he aced the quiz inside.
I'm not making this up. [2] Image hosted at x02.me
Conclusion: Try to outsmart management. It's easy. I did it many times. I'll share some later on.
Cheers.
[0] https://www.sakailms.org
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050709032131/http://www.fastco...
[2] https://x02.me/i/sCWcAj.jpg
Enterprise accounts have admin panels to see token spend/usage/set company wide guardrails and system prompts.
me and the other monks aren’t gonna do this crap, we’ve been doing it our way forever and there’s NO WAY those things can do it as good as i can
Only that this particular "printing press" could randomly include typos and even complete non-sense, that every page should be proof read separately....
lmfao