Just wondering how ppl feel about getting STEM degrees and grinding through all the difficult math, science, coding, and engineering classes now that ai can do those things. Also for those getting a PhD, what’s even the motivation to continue it knowing ai is just going to replace you?
Just noticed how AI code and architecture can go off the rails. Creating mountains of bloat and unnecessary stuff that becomes a nightmare to manage. I feel like now my main priority is steering and managing the AI so it doesn’t overcomplicate solutions or go into strange directions that create tech debt. Wondering what others experiences are.
My question is, is there any real to code by hand when I can simply describe what I want and the AI does it? Is there anything that the AI would miss or not be able to do? Effectively, is prompting Turning complete? Can any combination of code I need be generated by prompts - so no need to code by hand?
Since LLMs are non-deterministic it seems like we should focus on how to effectively communicate our ideas to LLMs. I don’t think we’ve even touched the surface of AI, and it may be worth understanding how we can get better results from them. I think this is what ppl are trying to say when they say you should master AI” you need to learn what approaches work and what don’t.
So do you think it would make sense for colleges/universities to start teaching a class like this? Or even come up with a new language course specifically showing how to breakdown your ideas to AI to get the best results?
When I hear executives talking about AI, it’s like a sci-fi movie script, not reality. Like they are talking about magic, where anything and everything is suddenly possible.
I have a strong sense that when ppl are talking about AI the same region of the brain that thinks of magic is lighting up. Been hearing some outlandish things recently from AI executive…
Thoughts?
I hear a lot of agents this or that, but how do I actually go about setting this up and creating an agents project?
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Just curious what other people’s workflows are.
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I firmly believe that AI creates a worser version of software than if we had to write it from scratch. Think of all the amazing software we have, that took painstaking amounts of effort to accomplish. It may seem that AI can do everything, but it’s almost always some watered down derivative carbon copy of the real thing. And what’s more, if the real thing wasn’t already in its training data, what would it produce? I think by not having the AI tool humans were more constrained but also more precise and able to create more innovative solutions. I think AI flies in the face of this. I myself find myself losing my coding chops and eventually I think this will become a lost art.
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It just feels like it’s pointless to keep learning when every day there is some new advancement in AI making whatever a human does seem insignificant, small, and pointless. It’s like no matter what I do an AI will just be able to do it better. If AI gets to the point where it’s capable of doing all mental tasks where does that leave a lot of ppl? I’ve always loved STEM but AI is flying in the face of all that, potentially making a lot of those tasks obsolete. So what’s the point in even learning anything anymore? Why even keep building if in a few years an AI is just going to be able to make whatever you do inferior in comparison.
I’ve been feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole development of AI. At first it was fun now it’s downright depressing… And don’t just say UBI and now everyone can pursue their hobbies, what if software development and tech was their hobby? I hate the future it feels like we are heading towards where masses of ppl will be laid off and feel lost and hopeless in their life. I know some ppl hate their job/career but for a lot of others it brings them purpose and joy as well as a steady income. AI has the potential to ruin a lot of what made tech fun and interesting.
Thoughts?
I don’t want to stereotype all devs, but a lot of them seem to have difficult personalities. Things I’ve noticed are smugness/arrogance/elitism, gatekeeping/knowledge hoarding, favoritism/cliques, ostracism and mobbing. You have ppl who are just downright mean and carry bad attitudes who constantly need to remind you how smart they are. So they use every opportunity to show off and one up you in front of management.
A lot of ppl don’t take this as a job, it’s like their entire personality. And then you have these lone wolfs or extremely socially awkward types that you can barely talk to.
I think it’s kinda rare to find just a normal group of chill friendly engineers to work with.
Thoughts?
I feel like this might start becoming a lot more common, due to all the hype and marketing surrounding AI. Seems a lot of ppl believe anyone can build an app in one-shot and we don’t need experienced engineers anymore.
When they ask a question like “why can’t we just one-shot the app”, it puts you on the hot seat to explain the entire development process to them, and all the steps it takes to get to a production quality app. AI can be used to assist and augment that process but you need a human in the loop to know and understand what they are doing. Rather than just telling them “go ahead and try it yourself”, how would you respond to this? How would you explain why AI can’t just make the entire app? How would you breakdown the step by step process of building an entire application?
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I feel like this might start becoming a lot more common, due to all the hype and marketing surrounding AI. Seems a lot of ppl believe anyone can build an app in one-shot and we don’t need experienced engineers anymore.
When they ask a question like “why can’t we just one-shot the app”, it puts you on the hot seat to explain the entire development process to them, and all the steps it takes to get to a production quality app. AI can be used to assist and augment that process but you need a human in the loop to know and understand what they are doing. Rather than just telling them “go ahead and try it yourself”, how would you respond to this? How would you explain why AI can’t just make the entire app? How would you breakdown the step by step process of building an entire application?
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I feel like this might start becoming a lot more common, due to all the hype and marketing surrounding AI. Seems a lot of ppl believe anyone can build an app in one-shot and we don’t need experienced engineers anymore.
When they ask a question like “why can’t we just one-shot the app”, it puts you on the hot seat to explain the entire development process to them, and all the steps it takes to get to a production quality app. AI can be used to assist and augment that process but you need a human in the loop to know and understand what they are doing. Rather than just telling them “go ahead and try it yourself”, how would you respond to this? How would you explain why AI can’t just make the entire app? How would you breakdown the step by step process of building an entire application?
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I feel like this might start becoming a lot more common, due to all the hype and marketing surrounding AI. Seems a lot of ppl believe anyone can build an app in one-shot and we don’t need experienced engineers anymore.
When they ask a question like “why can’t we just one-shot the app”, it puts you on the hot seat to explain the entire development process to them, and all the steps it takes to get to a production quality app. AI can be used to assist and augment that process but you need a human in the loop to know and understand what they are doing. Rather than just telling them “go ahead and try it yourself”, how would you respond to this? How would you explain why AI can’t just make the entire app? How would you breakdown the step by step process of building an entire application?
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Probably like most, I’ve been drawn to understanding MJ due to the biopic. Growing up I heard his hit songs but kinda ignored him. But recently I’ve become MJ obsessed, I get it now… And I feel guilty that I never truly appreciated Michael when he was alive… I’ve gone through his entirely catalogue and it’s simply incredible. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole and watched a lot of the documentaries.
Before I’d just heard the mainstream story about him and listened to his most popular songs. But one conclusion I’ve come to is that he was as genuine and generous and loving as he portrayed himself as on TV, it wasn’t an act. He was one of the sweetest human beings to ever live (especially for Hollywood).
From what I can see, he was a highly sensitive person/empath who was suffering from narcissistic trauma from his father. It’s a common pattern for those type ppl to be perfectionists and ppl pleasers. And they are often taken advantage of by other ppl.
I just wanted to say that I see it now… he was pure love and light in a world of darkness and evil. And so much charity work, yet the media ignored that and just demonized him… incredibly unfair.
I see no evidence that his image was fake or he was putting on an “act”, he really was this. He donated hundreds of millions to charities. Just shows how evil the media is, they cannot stand a genuine and authentic person. He was too good for this world.
I probably spend way too much time on this topic, however as a developer it affects me directly. But all this goes well beyond just me having a job, I see it permeating all facets of society and the world. Media, social interactions, even religion. I feel like the AI bros sort of hook ppl in with the whole “but it will bring all sorts of technological innovations and medical breakthroughs”, will it though? I’ve seen nothing but the slow enshittifcation of everything I use to enjoy. To think that all art, music, movies are just going down this same route is an incredibly depressing thought. It feels like an anti-human movement, they are removing the human from the equation. No one voted for this, and I see this just becoming another tool for the greedy elites to oppress and manipulate the people further.
In the long run maybe it turns out to be great, but at least in the short term things look like they are heading towards a dystopia.
Thoughts?
What comes to mind is you have some code that you want other ppl to be able to interact with, then you want to store data somewhere so you provision a database, then you need somewhere to host that code so you spin up a server then plop your code into that server and make it publicly accessible.
I get that there are other parts like networking, security, RBAC/permissions, Linux commands, scalability/maintainability, API, cloud infrastructure, version and change management.
But does it basically boil down to those three things:
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What comes to mind is you have some code that you want other ppl to be able to interact with, then you want to store data somewhere so you provision a database, then you need somewhere to host that code so you spin up a server then plop your code into that server and make it publicly accessible.
I get that there are other parts like networking, security, RBAC/permissions, Linux commands, scalability/maintainability, API, cloud infrastructure, version and change management.
But does it basically boil down to those three things:
Thanks
What comes to mind is you have some code that you want other ppl to be able to interact with, then you want to store data somewhere so you provision a database, then you need somewhere to host that code so you spin up a server then plop your code into that server and make it publicly accessible.
I get that there are other parts like networking, security, RBAC/permissions, Linux commands, scalability/maintainability, API, cloud infrastructure, version and change management.
But does it basically boil down to those three things:
Thanks
What comes to mind is you have some code that you want other ppl to be able to interact with, then you want to store data somewhere so you provision a database, then you need somewhere to host that code so you spin up a server then plop your code into that server and make it publicly accessible.
I get that there are other parts like networking, security, RBAC/permissions, Linux commands, scalability/maintainability, API, cloud infrastructure, version and change management.
But does it basically boil down to those three things:
Thanks