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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's a good thing. After all, I don't care when Amazon goes down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

How much longer until cloud CEOs are a thing of the past? Wouldn't an AI sufficiently intelligent to solve technical problems at scale also be able to run a large corporate division? By the time this is actually viable, we are all fucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Honestly I feel even an AI could write better code than what some big tech software uses lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Lol, as a programmer who uses generative AI myself, I would genuinely love to see them try.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Don't worry guys. As long as project managers think "do the thing ... like the thing ... (waves hands around) ... you know ... (waves hands around some more) ... like the other thing ... but, um, ..., different" constitutes a detailed spec, we're safe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The thing that I see most is that AI is dumb and can’t do it yet so we don’t need to worry about this.

To me, it’s not about whether it can or not. If the people in charge think it can, they’ll stop hiring. There is a lot of waste in some big companies so they might not realize it’s not working right away.

Source: I work for a big company that doesn’t do things efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That big company will go through a crisis realize it's mistake and start quickly hiring again or it will fail and disappear

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Its not like jobs will disappear in a single day. Incremental improvements will render lower level tasks obsolete, it already has to a degree.

Someone will still need to translate the business objectives into logical structure, via code, language, or whatever medium. Whether you call that a "coder" or not, is kind of irrelevant. The nerdy introverts will need to translate sales-douche into computer one way or another. Sales-douches are not going to be building enterprise apps from their techbro-hypespeak.

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