| I feel literally the opposite: the reason why I'm disappointed by the current state of AI is because I really want it to work so I can focus on the actually useful part of my job instead of doing boring stuff. What's the useful part of my job? It's bringing values to my customers: they want to do something, and they need help. But today, unfortunately I must always tell them to reduce their ambition because they wouldn't be able to afford it or to be stuck waiting for the project to deliver even if they could fund it. I've seen a enormous shift in developers ability to actually ship valuable products to customers when opensource became mainstream, thanks to github and things like npm: no more custom half-backed libraries for doing all the features necessary for the product to work, we could just re-use an existing library. More than half of our job disappeared these days, yet nobody regrets the days when you had to write your own code for absolutely every features, and the number of programmers exploded since then[1]. I wish AI assistant could be as impactful as github and npm, and I'm pretty sure they will eventually, and that day will be a great day for developers, not a bad one. We're not going to lose our job, because from the perspective of the dude who hold the money, our job is to be the weirdo that talks to machines to deliver what the his ego want his company to be. Hence, the more you are able to deliver, the happier the money holder, and the more money you make. Our job will be threatened when the guys with money will be willing to actually make the effort of talking with the machine, but I don't see this day coming anytime soon. The ambition of man is unlimited, but his will to make efforts is in scarce supply. The only realistic risk with AI, is big corporations grabbing all the benefits of the added productivity, this is a serious risk, and a very good reason not to be using OpenAI so we don't trigger a self-reinforcing feedback loop that give them a monopoly position where we all end up losing because we depend on them. [1]: this has caused lots of sustainability issues for the library authors, but not for the developers using the libraries. |