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Most of people here think "I will be fine, only the other guy gets fired, programmers always will be needed". And we are tempted by new shiny stuff or we think using llms will help us keep the job but really by agreeing to what is happening and not being skeptic and standing against we dig our career graves. Kind of tragedy.

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Should’ve gone the art-industry route instead of this. Posting any kind of ai-generated art in an art community gets hostile pretty quickly.

If you view yourself as a "backend developer" or, worse, "a react developer" then sure. If you view yourself as a "person who solves business problems with technology" then the only thing AI does is enable you to do more.

business owner solves business problems with your assistance. you are saying llms cannot in near future give this assistance. seems debatable.

Then become a business owner? Im not sure what the argument is. That industries should resist change because somewhere down the line they become obsolete?

> Then become a business owner?

You mean like all those "business owners" in gig economy who don't have contract anymore due to llms? How's that helpful?

Look at another post from today where Google’s Agent deleted a whole drive.

give it five minutes and someone will be like "but remember that story how an employee nuked entire company by mistake, humans are no better"

A lot of people here have overgrown egos and really believe they are irreplaceable. And reality can come at you really fast.

Even actually being irreplaceable doesn't help if management doesn't agree.

And increasing costs 10 fold due to letting go of someone that were doing two teams worth of work on some internal system he had 20y of experience with wont show up in some table in some power point.

You're replying to an LLM.

how do you know it's an llm? how do you know I'm not an llm? how do I know you're not an llm?

that nicely summarizes one of problems with llms.

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