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by tomerlir 19 days ago
Why do you feel that way? I'm a SWE and LLMs have 10x me as a developer
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Are you earning 10x too? You are just cheaper to your employer… and you seem proud of that. But naive
What if one’s entire existence doesn’t revolve around the role they play in capitalist systems? Comments like this make it blindingly apparent that this is just a VC’s web forum.
My existence has as substrate: shelter, food and healthcare. Money provides these via jobs. Once that’s covered, sure, pleasure comes.

I don’t like it, but that’s how im playing the game of life

> What if one’s entire existence doesn’t revolve around the role they play in capitalist systems.

Quit playing for a little bit. Quit working. See how quickly people derided and devalue you. If I don’t work, I don’t eat, I don’t get a place to sleep, etc. and “the role I play in the capitalist system” determines exactly how much of those things I can have.

I find it similar to “it’s not useful to compare yourself to others” adage. In society, you’re constantly evaluated or compared against others: when trying to find work, when trying to find a home, etc.

Sure maybe you can fuck off and try and live like Diogenes, but you’ll more likely to just collect a string of arrests or unwanted conflict with junkies.

You are entirely defined by your role in the capitalist system because you cannot exist outside of it.

yeah, but it also made us slaves of LLMs, let's be real, we will not do anything else than query AIs soon enough.
Take this vague, emotive, thought-terminating language to your journal or a pub rant or something. What does this even mean? Only one entity in this interaction has free will and it’s not the LLM. “Humanity reliant on another technology” is hardly news. You’re probably just getting a taste of your own medicine. Most people here have spent their careers at least ATTEMPTING to disrupt industries/areas of society in a way that makes people increasingly reliant on “technology”.
Thanks for stopping by to leave 4 separate, scathing, contempt-filled comments.

So I guess it is safe to assume that you would not be interested in a "a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

Yes, that is a rhetorical question.