I think you'd have to be a very limited kind of developer - only working in some tiny niche - to make AI completely useless for you. Most programmers occasionally have to do tedious but simple throw-away tasks, or tasks in systems they aren't familiar with. AI absolutely can save you time in these cases.
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Even accounting for that (at least in countries with national healthcare), they're definitely more expensive than regular employees.
The games programming industry is high stress, but apart from that it isn't. I don't think it's known for burnouts any more than any other industry.
AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right. Don't expect it to magically be as good as a real programmer... but for instance I made an HTML visualisation of some stuff using Claude, and while it got it a bit wrong, fixing it took me maybe 20 minutes, while writing it from scratch would have taken me at least a couple of hours.
Yeah obviously. Whenever a company says "we can't get enough X workers" they implicitly mean "at the price we want to pay".
But that doesn't mean they were wrong. Programming is still an amazingly well paying and low stress career. Being replaced by AI is a little worrying, but I think by the time AI is good enough to really replace programmers, it will also be able to replace most white collar jobs - HR, finance, etc. - and society will have bigger problems.
Since when are contractors lower pay? Companies waste fortunes on them.
From what I can gather (it's a government /academic computing project so it has to be as clear as mud), you can't. They're only making the index, which would allow other people to build a search engine using it.
Also while it's "open", they're clearly intending to charge for commercial use:
Understand the differences between research and commercial licenses
I would strongly recommend against them. The design is fundamentally flawed. To click you have to press sideways which naturally moves the cursor a bit causing you to misclick. To compensate you have to tense your hand even more which defeats the point.
How deep is your desk, and what seat are you using? Getting a deeper desk and an expensive mesh-bottomed chair (I have a HM Mira) made waaaaaaay more difference than any of the weird ergonomic keyboards or mice of unusual keyboard layouts I tried.
I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.
This is dumb. I have followed the simple 12 step process to set up git send-email and it was so much more hassle than creating an account on GitHub or Codeberg or whatever, and in the end the UX is much worse.
What's your job / where do you work then?
This is why I strongly prefer underscores; never use hyphens if you can avoid it. Eventually the names will end up as variables in a programming language where you have to use underscores, and now you've got some stupid and confusing translation system to deal with.
Another example of this is CSS names in Javascript. Rust also made this mistake unfortunately.
I knew Python didn't take backwards compatibility seriously after Python 3.12, but 4 years is a joke.