[sarchertech]

>Mad Max specifically requires a ridiculous amount of intact infrastructure for all the gasoline (you know gasoline goes bad in 3-6 months? Yeah didn't think so)

Is this a joke or do you have a learning disability?

>But I expect 24/7 IC3 level engineering as a service for $200/month to be more than enough and I think that's a year or two away. And you can either prepare for that or scream how the sky is falling, your choice.

Or I could do neither and write you off as a gasbag who doesn't know what he's talking about like all the other ex-amazon management I've had the pleasure to work with over the years.

[LogicFailsMe]

I guess you have a really short context buffer with all this frequently forgetting things you've said yourself.

But that aside, how's all that self-righteousness working out for you?

[sarchertech]

I bet you have ex-Amazon prominently in your LinkedIn profile.

[LogicFailsMe]

Don't have a LinkedIn profile, don't need one. But I'm guessing you're listed under LinkedIn Lunatics.

[sarchertech]

I read back through a few of your posts and you’re either schizophrenic, or a very elaborate troll.

I know a few older people who started posting like this when they hit their 50s. I’ve only got a few years left. Hopefully I can avoid it, but maybe it’s inevitable.

[LogicFailsMe]

Ageism: now that's a warrior's flex, amIRight?

People like myself in their 50s to 60s who had the experience of banging the metal on imperfect buggy hardware late into the night to mine gems before Python made the entire software engineering community pivot to a core competency of syntax pedanting plus stringing library calls together are having a real party with AI agents effectively doing the same thing they did 30 years ago. I personally never stopped coding even through my one awful experience as an engineering manager.

But you do you, and hear me now, dismiss me later. There won't be 45% unemployment because the minute AI starts replacing current engineering skills for real is the minute the people it targets wake up and start learning how to work with AI coding agents that will be dramatically better than today. People resist change until there are no other options, just look at fossil fuels. The free market will work that one out too eventually.

And no amount of some nontechnical guy vibe scienceing his way to a working mRNA vaccine for his cancer-ridden dog or an engineer unlocking mods to Disney Infinity just from the binary and Claude Code or an entire web browser ported to rust will ever convince you these things are not the enemy. And that's going to put you through some things down the road. So of course, since this will never happen I'm an elaborate troll or a nutcase just like the people who pulled all those things off, never mind all the evidence mounting that these things can be amazing in the right hands. That's CRAZYTALK! Stochastic Parrot! Glorified Autocomplete! Mad Max! Mad Max! DLSS 5!

[andrekandre]

  > There won't be 45% unemployment because the minute AI starts replacing current engineering skills for real is the minute the people it targets wake up and start learning how to work with AI coding agents that will be dramatically better than today. 

i have a slightly different take: the theory of bullshit jobs* says most likely we will have an increase in the amount of work expected which will just increase the amount of management and specialists (think scrum master and friends for ai) and busywork needed for all this new technology, so most definitely "jobs" will not be going away imo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs