[elzbardico]

I think that a lot of those overly enthusiastic engineer AI fanboys are just playing a rational game driven by their perception that AI is a effective substitute for them, and that the only way to survive the comming culling is by being seen on the market as something an AI thought leader.

Basically, signalling that they are going to be cooperative subjects for the enemy's occupation of the land.

"I, for one, welcome our new giant insect overlords" is, IMHO, the operative meme here.

Others are just addicted, the cycle of fast interaction and reward in coding agents is not very different from gambling or crack cocaine.

[captainbland]

I think the prevailing mindset amongst developers who use LLMs is that actually LLMs are more of an effective augmentation of programming tools in the same way that an IDE is, and the marketing angle comes from perceived demand for that augmented skill set.

Many developers even seem to predict an increase in demand in the medium to long term as AI written systems increasingly begin to need human attention.

I think the hyper enthusiastic ones are more vocal, but there's a quieter and larger group who are somewhat more measured about it.

[hparadiz]

I like how everyone on HN feels entitled to a profession that hasn't even existed for 100 years and that is constantly changing. Talk about addiction.

[miyoji]

Yes, I am addicted to food and shelter and to being able to work in the profession that I specialized in and spent years learning to do well. Without these things I would literally die.

[hparadiz]

When I was fresh out of college in my 20s I watched two engineers get fired in front of me. They were hired to be DBAs. When I finished rewriting the software into a proper mvc their entire job became redundant since anyone could now make the database edits needed from an admin webpage. And I was better at the DBA part of my full stack role than they were. This is no different.

[elzbardico]

People need to be independently rich, or be extremelly frugal to not care about the hypothetical obsolescence of their jobs.

What the fuck do you expect? That people just cheer a brave new world of diminishing salaries and disappearing jobs along with some vague promises that every thing will be alright?

[matheusmoreira]

Yes, I absolutely do expect computer programmers to cheer as the brave new world they helped create is ushered in.

How many people here got rich by automating away the jobs of others? I mean, what is this? Others are fair game, but programming is sacred? That's quite simply the peak of absurdity.

[hparadiz]

Every single step in this saga has actually created millions of jobs.

It's pretty funny seeing this play out in the HN comments because I never got any consideration before when I had to learn new frameworks and languages. But suddenly machine learning is the line one should not cross? Playing the world's smallest violin right now.

[bluefirebrand]

What industries and professions has software actually made extinct?

The result of most software has been "you do basically the same job except now you do it on a computer"

[fragmede]

Computer used to be a job for a cadre of women who did math. That job went away when computers, the physical machine, got enough software that those women were no longer needed.

[Groxx]

The rational game here is extremely straightforward, and even has big names like "prisoner's dilemma" behind it:

Unionize.