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yes, because this is still glorified autocomplete

the average coder is worse than an autocomplete

Too many people here have spent time in elite corporations and don't realize how mediocre the bottom 50th percentile of coding talent is

To be honest, if the bottom 50th percent of coding talent is going to be obsolete, I wonder what happens to rest of the "knowledge workers" in those companies. I mean people whose jobs consist of attending Teams meetings, making fancy powerpoint slides and reports, perhaps even excel if they are really competent. None of that is any more challenging for LLM than writing code. In fact replacing these jobs should be easier, since presentations and slides do not actually do anything, unlike a program that must perform a certain action correctly.

I've heard compelling arguments that we passed the "more people than jobs" threshold during the green revolution and as a civilization have collectively retrofitted UBI in the form of "fake email jobs" and endless layers of management. This also would explain https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ pretty well.

Either AI shatters this charade, or we make up some new laws to restrain it and continue to pretend all is well.

Exactly. There's some need, perhaps, to keep these tools "up to date" because someone in a non-free country is going to use them in a horrendous manner and we should maybe know more about them (maybe).

However, there is no good reason in a free society that this stuff should be widely accessible. Really, it should be illegal without a clearance, or need-to-know. We don't let just anyone handle the nukes...

This is true and yet companies (both Private and Public sector) spend literal billions on Accenture /Deloitte slop that runs budgets will into the 10s of millions.

Skills aren't even something that dictates software spend, it seems.

I tried it out and was able to put together a decent libevent server in c++ with smart pointers, etc, and a timer which prints out connection stats every 30s. It worked remarkably well.

I'm trying not to look at it as a potential career-ending event, but rather as another tool in my tool belt. I've been in the industry for 25 years now, and this is way more of an advancement than things like IntelliSense ever was.

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