19 points theHocineSaad 2 hours ago 5 comments
markhammond68 1 hour ago | parent
After 40 years in development I have never known a time like this. Half of my colleagues seem to be in denial, the other half seem to be slowly cracking up. The future is going to be very different, very soon.
siva7 1 hour ago | parent
It's depressing. Those in denial are really difficult to work with now.. they have a hard time adapting to such fundamental changes but their denial leads to sabotaging the adaption efforts of the rest. The other half like you mentioned is only slowly cracking up like still trying to grasp that this ai thing isn't some new tool you will have mastered in a few days. There are right now only very few people who have mastered state of the art ai development and they would like to work with only those also in this camp because it's so depressing to watch the majority of developers wrestling to find their spot in this new world.
fwlr 22 minutes ago | parent
You know, the thing I miss most about the old world is how people would have imposter syndrome. Now they have whatever this is.
rootusrootus 16 minutes ago | parent
Reading the stories, I’m happy to be working at a place where management is AI-skeptical. They do allow developers to use LLMs, but the token budget is $5.
I’ve decided not to complain.
jubilee33 13 minutes ago | parent
Nobody really cared when factory jobs were replaced, or food processing, or farming, or any number of waves of "menial", so called "low skill" labor jobs.
There was an arrogance that those people deserved it because they couldn't upgrade themselves.
Nobody will feel sorry for software devs, who have been privileged enough to have had high respect and pay for quite a long time.
İt may be sad but it's just the case that the only thing different this time is the fact that's its "knowledge work" that's being replaced, and the smart people now find themselves in the position where the common man has found themselves time and time again.
İ do feel sorry for devs as overall they are quite a good group of people,
As opposed to bankers and brokers and lawyers who I personally am praying they get replaces asap, unfortunately the only thing protecting them at the moment are the regulatory moats.
People will simple have to find some new work, it sucks but some of us have been dealing with not being wanted by corpo-world our whole lives despite our skills, and we are still here. You will all be fine. Much love to all who are going through this.