Oh please stop with this meaningless fear mongering. AI is a (not so good) tool.
Yes it can write very short snippets that often make sense, but in no way can understand requirements, do debugging or maintain existing code.
Yes it can write very short snippets that often make sense, but in no way can understand requirements, do debugging or maintain existing code.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-watch-first-d...
This place needs to change its name to LudditeNews.
The belief is that new means of production should be embraced, owned, and operated by workers to benefit the many and not just the few exploitative capitalists (which are those who own means of production).
Instead of exploiting lay-offs and long shifts, and disregarding safety to save the capitalist money, the factory would instead be built and operated for the benefit of workers and society, prioritizing safety and sharing shorter shifts among a larger workforce to preserve jobs.
From a socialist/communist perspective machine taxes and UBI are like cheap bribes to avoid the issue and preserve the exploitative system in place. The luddites probably would have felt the same had they been offered a pity sum or machine tax from factory owners to "offset" their condition.
If I wasn't scared before, I'm even less scared now.
But if all you do is write trivial code anyone can learn to write in 1 week, with extremely detailed instructions, perhaps your job is in danger indeed. That's not what a software engineer does anyway.
It improved drastically in quality within 4 months, yet for some reason, the nex 10 years will see 0 progress in a field with literally tens of billions and intellectual capital flowing in.
Not bad news for anyone involved in this work, though. That period is when the real business and societal changes happen. It’s also when most of the money gets made.
People and businesses need time to test new technology and adapt it so that it works reliably for their specific use cases. GPT and other LLMs are no exception.
That might not be a threat to you if you’re a 35 year old developer, but if you’re an 18 year old exiting high school, there’s a non zero chance that by the time you’re 35 - 17 years - the tech will be good enough to replace you.