[rhubarbtree]

I feel positive about it. I always want my code to be perfect, and now I can get much closer to that. I can review and nitpick the hell out of it and get it to fix things. I can spend time on elegance and architecture.

I am concerned though that the younger crowd will churn out slop and we’ll race to the bottom. Already i notice software qualify tanking - even Anthopic’s products are super buggy - kinda like going to mass produced cheap consumer products that are much lower quality than their predecessors. Yes, you can choose quality, but most humans are intellectually incapable of seeing beyond price (that’s a psychological fact, not a moan - don’t have references to hand though).

It is weird to see the end of my profession and to be the unlucky ones to suffer it. The answer is to absolutely engage with AI in every way. For some the answer is also to become expert in building it, analogous to machine tool work in the Industrial Revolution.

So long as the amount of software output rises accordingly, we will still have jobs. But we need to reskill.