[jmuguy]

"...I use ChatGPT on a daily basis to build projects..."

Really? What projects? I think its telling that you haven't replied to any of the comments here - is this post just BS?

A take that really summed up how I feel about all this hysteria around LLMs and ChatGPT specifically: People are praying to it, treating it like an Oracle. Anything you can dream up, GPT can do. Its exhausting.

[astura]

>is this post just BS?

I think it is, because the entire thing reads as someone with very little life experience. If they've truly been in the industry 20 years they would have experienced plenty of similar career anxieties - the .com boom/bust, outsourcing, and global financial crises.

[brandall10]

I've been through all those (started working in '99 at a company that failed in Jan '01). Seriously, it was 80% y2k bug work during the first year of my career.

This has me far more concerned, as I went into detail in another comment in this thread.

Much of what I see in this thread feels like platitude-driven myopia, which brings to mind the famous Upton Sinclair quote "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

[mclightning]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

So, it is "Your salary depends on your ability to convince others that you can not be replaced." basically.

Everyone is talking about "that other developer who has less experience, they will be the one to be replaced". The more I hear, the more suspicious it gets to me. Like everyone is so sure of themselves.

[thaway_thaway34]

I didn’t expect this thread to blow up while I was away for lunch, hence no replies until now.

I built 4 projects so far with it. Out of these 3, 1 is clone of an app that has been charging 65usd per year. Other one was rehash/improvement on an existing app that has been selling for 25usd.

It took me under a day to build the prototype, a week to deploy/build installer.

The only thing left is to actually put them out in the market really.

This was just too easy.

[Al0neStar]

I thought trolling was banned on hn.