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Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

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[โ€“] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I love llms! I'm using them to answer all sorts of bullshit to become a manager....like here's a bunch of notes make me a managers review of Brian. LOL.

I think Google is struggling to control the bullshit flood from the Internet and so AI is about to eat their lunch. Like I already decided that all AIs are just bullshit and the only really useful AIs are the ones that can actually search the Internet live. Perplexity AI was doing this for a while but someone chopped off it's balls. I've been looking for a replacement ever since.

I also use it for help with python, with Linux, with docker, with solid works and stuff around the house like taxes, kombucha, identifying plants and stupid stuff like that.

But I can definitely see the future when the police are replaced with robo dogs with lases heads that can run at 120mph and shoot holes through cars. The only benefit being that the hole doesn't get infected and there's no pool of blood. That future is coming. I'm going to start wearing aluminum reflective shield armor.

[โ€“] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Don't worry, if you got even a quarter as much experience as you say, your job is safe or you can find another not working for an idiotic company that would invest into ai instead of engineers, let them fail.

Anyway have a look what ai can do for you and see just how secure your job is. Pointless worry

[โ€“] spez_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago
[โ€“] themurphy@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

You seem like the guy who kept writing in hand and didn't want to use the typewriter, even though it went 2x times faster.

Or the guy who kept writing the typewriter and didn't want to use the computer.

You see the point?

[โ€“] LordGimp@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As a welder, I've been hearing for 20 years that "robots are going to replace you" and "automation is going to put you out of a job" yadda yadda. None of you code monkies gave a fuck about me and my job, but now it's a problem because it affects you and your paycheck? Fuck you lmao good riddance to bad garbage.

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