65-70% "programmers" never wrote code in the first place. Before AI cargo culters just copy pasted code from tutorials, stack overflow, github and so on. With AI they merely continue not writing code. Some people didn't do anything, not even copy paste, see r/overemployed although I have not checked it after AI... maybe it's no longer possible to hold a dev job without actually doing anything.
Programmers still write code. They have enough expertise from actually programming to understand that the untouched output from AI is not good enough to be professionally responsible for.
At work I still write code, but at home I don't think I wrote anything in months.
There's nothing that I can't tell Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 to do for me instead.
At work, where I don't have cheap AI subscriptions, access to the SOTA, and where code needs to follow conventions more strictly, I still have to write the code by hand often.
>Honestly, this is getting extremely tiring. Every new invention that has happened has affected the world in both good and bad ways.
Common human trope is to rely on analogies and past patterns to predict the future. It blinds you reality.
This isn't some new "invention". What's happening is fundamentally more profound. the stakes are much much much more higher and the consequences much more grave. Thus a historical analogy can't save you when the situation is categorically different.
I agree it's getting "tiring" but this is another common human trope. You see the same thing too many times and you lose the sense of danger that comes with it. It's like sky diving all the time. You eventually lose the fear via repetition, but fundamentally speaking, you are still parachuting out of a fucking plane.
This is a good idea. I've been hoping that a large player with enough social reach would create an open-source fund that everyone can contribute to, to develop a company that trains and releases open-source models at the cutting edge. We can crowdfund the training costs, and the whole world benefits.
It's the most logical solution for AI anyway, considering that it's training on humanities collective knowledge. It should be more of a public-funded and public-access resource, rather than something greedy tech companies distribute like crumbs while they use unlocked powers internally to clone all of our businesses and swallow the economy.
They are different and yet the same. The biggest difference is there’s generally more hatred for China because many us citizens are jealous. But corporate corruption is not that different in safety.
Other than hatred the difference lies in incentives. Corporations want profit. China just wants to spy.
I’m Chinese bro. The American or international understanding of Chinese ambitions is a cartoon caricature of reality. You are ignorant.
In the context of LLMs spying is the biggest threat. The other biggest threat is information cover up. They don’t want the model to talk about embarrassing shit like tian men square.
We should compare it with a human on the same coding tasks. Same amount of time and the agent will of course finish earlier but with the extra time it double checks and reviews its own code.
Agreed, mathematics is ugly without ai. I feel beauty is in massive complexity and intricacy. Every time I see a small proof it feels too easy and trivial. Triviality and simplicity is ugly to me.
Guys you are privileged to do a job that you love. The privilege is even higher when the things you love aren’t even needed anymore. If this is the case you are on the verge of losing your job. Key word is verge. Not yet, but the trendlines point to it as a likely possibility.
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