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by jabwd
74 days ago
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I don't remember automobiles actively harming your cognitive abilities, nor the cost increasing 5 orders of magnitude. Yet the things actively slow me down in my work by the shear impact of my coworkers using them and having to correct the many mistakes that are made. If your job was producing mediocrity, then yes, AI is awesome. Sorry for the mirror. Edit: I have my popcorn ready for when the VC subsidies end. |
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Do you even know what your job is?
Your job as a developer is not to produce brilliant code - it's to produce code that is so standard, disciplined, off-the-shelf and normative that it's utterly boring.
That is exactly what the AI is good at - 'the boring standard'.
-> AI is not harming anyone's cognitive abilities.
-> Cost of AI is marginal - $200/mo for a tool while devs earn >>$100K, is the cost of tires on a car
-> Token prices are dropping by 90% per year, today's AI is already pretty good, it will be a commodity soon, but we'll continue to pay probably even more than $200/mo because the value is there.
I taught myself BASIC in the 1980's and there's code I wrote in the 1990's that is literally still in production to this day. There's probably a decent chance that I've had code in production since before you were born. Over the span of those decades, it's very clear that there's a fundamental transformation, which is totally unassailable.