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He has a point, that's quite depressing that a work you had to think and act in order to solve hard problems now became almost the same as scanning barcodes in any supermarket, and it's outright sad that most people are happy about it and being snarky towards anyone that points the hardships that come with it.

Philosophically speaking (not practically) it's like living the industrial revolution again. It's lit! But it's also terrifying and saddening.

Personally it makes me want to savor each day as the world would never be the same again.

If these tools make your job as easy as scanning barcodes then you really weren't working on anything interesting anyways.

Thank you for rubbing extra salt into the wound.

I mean most software engineering jobs are not especially exciting. I have done web dev for smaller companies that never had more than a few hundred concurrent users. It is boring CRUD apps all day every day.

Still at least you could have a bit of fun with the technical challenges. Now with AI it becomes completely mind numbing.

I'm with you on this. I'm pouring one out for human skill because I think our ability to do a lot of creative work (coding included) is on the brink of extinction. But I definitely think these are the future

The interesting part of my job is unchanged. Thinking through the design, UX, architecture, code structure, etc were always where I found the fun / challenge. Typing was never the part I was overly fond of.

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