[ygouzerh]

Everyone is quite worried of their job. Many of us have made coding/IT our personality, what we were proud of, what the society made us feel valued. It's a big change in life... and there is no solution yet.

So everyone feels the needs to talk about it, to either get rid of this anxiety by ranting or trying to prove that it would be an opportunity, or a non-event depending on the point of view, etc

[xeromal]

Going off this thought tangent a bit, I think many engineers could be gatekeepers because it's a pretty hard industry to get into and it's just not everybody's cup of tea. Now that AI is assisting people who wouldn't necessarily make it in the old world, it turns out business just cares about results and the gatekeepers don't matter as much anymore. It's creating quite a big split between the old guard and people who just get stuff done even if it creates 10 times the bloat.

I've always been on the get it done side to the chagrin of my peers but I've also never impressed anyone with what I've came up with so who knows.

My personal opinion is that if you don't get with the program, you're probably going to get left in the dust or going to have to split off and do your own thing where you can control what's going on but I think in general in a capitalistic society, the business just wants to get to the next thing to make more money and subpar or middling quality is good enough.

I should caveat my comment that this doesn't apply to pacemaker software and higher end software engineering

[esafak]

Welcome to the club, but remember: you break it, you own it. You will be expected to take part in incident response and explain why it broke and how to remediate it in the post-mortem.

[xeromal]

Believe me, I know. I am completely an entirely responsible for a service that receives around 500 requests a second. AI assisted coding has really helped me get through a backlog of things I've wanted to do but never had the time because I was one man.

[sailingcode]

The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.

[ygouzerh]

That's true! Even faster, for exemple for young people who started university in September 2022 thinking computer sciences is one of the most promising for job opportunities: they started before ChatGPT was released, and now they haven't yet finished their masters degrees.