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by impissedoff1 1081 days ago
I sure picked the worst time to be unemployed and look at a coding career again after a decade
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LLMs might be useful for churning out vaguely correct-looking code quickly, but they're just regurgitating the contents of their training corpus. There's no guarantee of correctness, and it's only a matter of time before someone dies because of an LLM-generated bug.

Human programmers aren't going anywhere. (You can't even call what LLMs do programming, because there's no intent or understanding behind it.)

Well the thing is though that if you focus on it for a week or two you can pick up useful skills. Just play around with ChatGPT for example for generating SQL for a particular table or follow a tutorial using llamaindex for a "chat with documents" thing. Try out a Stable Diffusion API or something using replicate.com

There are a ton of people looking for help with generative AI and you can be useful if you just play around with it for a few weeks, because a lot of them have no idea about the basics. If you are willing to be underpaid there is no need to be unemployed -- just spend a few weeks studying and then go on Upwork.

Actually this would be a good use case for ChatGPT use it to practice for interviews.

Learn about things you missed. double check everything it says.

Good luck.