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In my humble opinion, there’s nothing new to be coded. Everything is a framework and piggybacks off decades of real talent.

We’ve hit a peak with computers. These days, the newest operating systems sport unnecessary features no one asked for. Windows 11 made the remarkable and brave change of moving the task bar start button to the middle of the screen. Truly a marvel of modern development.

I got my start as a network fag. Back in school for a more rewarding career. I truly hope to never see another computer as long as I live as a major life goal.

Yes totally agree. It's also true for those in the movie production industry. It's also true for those in any kind of artistic creation industry. It's partly true for songwriters and jingle creators all those someone still has the own the copyright and that has not been worked out yet. I'll tell you something else appraisers of all type are going to see their jobs go by. I put the picture of a painting I bought at a thrift shop in the chat GPT and it gave me the history of that painting the possible artist the conditions of the canvas ask me how I wanted to Market it and all kinds of other things all in an instant better than any human art appraiser could ever have done and with a lot more technical and written backup.

And don't forget that robots are as a district as dexterious as humans now so even the manual labor jobs like plumbing and electrical work and things like that when hooked to the artificial intelligence you're not really going to even need those manual dexterous laborers to do that work after a very short period of time I suspect that will follow about 2 years after everybody loses their other jobs.

Oh and the Tesla robo taxis are now operating without anybody in the car in Austin Texas and it'll be very short period of time before they are in every city in America which not only means that Uber drivers are going to lose their job but it also means car salesman are going to lose their job because not nearly as many people are going to want to buy a car when it's just as cheap and convenient to order a Tesla to take you wherever you want to go.

The world's going to change in drastic ways and they're not going to be as many people needed on Earth and of course the nice thing would be for someone to figure out a way for all the people who don't have to work anymore to get an income from it all but we know that won't happen. What we know is the monopolist who will figure out a way to own it all quote unquote? We'll just say well all those extra people don't need to be there so they'll give us more injections and have more wars to get rid of a soul.

And that's my optimistic take on the whole situation.

Oof, can't even say "learn to code" anymore.

So now I can finally make all those SaaS products I dreamed about but didn't have the money or charisma to recruit people?

Also I wanted to make games when I was a kid but ended up in web dev.

Also I've been unemployed for 2 years now and trying to find work is like begging for money at a stop light.

I hear ya.

I'm a shitty programmer. Like on a scale of 1 to 10, like a 2... HTML, some JavaScript and that is it.

Started doing VR development and need to know C#. Can't do crap in VR dev without knowing how to write c#.

Started with chatgtp coding. Tt was shyt. Lots of hallucinations that befuddled me since I don't know what I am looking at.

Switch over to claude with sonnet 3.7 (free layer) and bang. Two, one shot fixes within hours and now I learned to run multiple chats and cut and paste results between them and can get fixes for just about anything I need, up to high-midlevel stuff.

I haven't even gotten to sonnet 4.0 yet. I've learned to write really good use cases and functional specs and just feed it into the machine.

By the time sonnet 7 hits, even experienced high level programmers are out of a job.


Programmers are doomed. Well, we all are now that Plantier is up and running... Wait till that thing starts parsing through our lives in minute detail at the speed of light.

Edit: Got access to the Meta lambda for coding. It works really well as well.

Did design, did programming, now to work with one's hands.

What path are you pivoting to? It almost feels "learn to code" was pushed just to give those struggling some false hope.

While this is true where will you go? Going to be a plumber or electrician and work on the homes of the programmers that were recently laid off?

I don't think think anything is safe from the AI apocalypse.

Most likely the higher paid Emp's. will be sacrificed.

I don't see what your issue is. Also, platform integration and project management is always in huge demand, especially for construction. Write the new prima Vera or sap Hana...

Video editing for me. I have a physical backup job that cannot be AI replaced but the money isn't there...yet.
Curious what your new industry is, are you going with AI editor or something else?

I realized this a couple months ago. I took a couple CS classes in college. Very much a beginner, but have a solid grasp of computers, network, and technology.

I began making software that was at an advanced level with AI. It felt like I was managing a team of junior developers. I can spin up whatever piece of software I want/need now and run it.

I've made my own advanced firewall, CAD software, and .pdf viewer/editor. You can literally make your own software right now with AI in a few hours.

You learned to code, so you're smart enough to learn how to be a factory worker in ZoGnald or Elon's manufacturing plants they are supposedly going to start building any day now. Or maybe you can stock shelves at a walmart, they are always hiring.

My job should be safe for the next 5-10 years, but I've had an interest in being a machinist. I've got at least one machine shop close by presently, and a place to learn machining. The three CNC/CAD classes available are $5,500 and less (down to $3,500), so if/when people start being replaced I'll have time to fall back on something.

I haven’t coded a new thing, ever. It’s always been maintenance on shit so difficult my job existed because the previous guy couldn’t hack it. AI wouldn’t know what the fuck to do there.

No programmer let alone QA or PMs would know what to prompt it to solve those problems.

All these people saying AI will take programmers jobs. I don’t know how they will but go ahead and try.

Why didnt you see that coming in 1999?

Then hurry up and kill yourself, obsolete boomer. Hurry. Do it now. AI made you as useless as you already were. Kill yourself now and save yourself the pain.