Pick anything else you have a far better likelihood to fall back into manual process, legal wall, or whatever that AI cannot replace easily.
Good job boys and girls. You will be remembered.
Prompting an AI just doesn't have the same feeling, unfortunately.
It brings the “what to build“ question front and center while “how to build it“ has become much, much easier and more productive
Same thing for science. I don't mind if AI could solve all those problems, as long as they can teach me. Those problems are already "solved" by the universe anyway.
There's so much half-working AI-generated code everywhere that I'd feel ashamed if I had to ever meet our customers.
I think the thing that gives me the most value is code review. So basically I first review my code myself, then have Claude review it and then submit for someone else to approve.
Maybe it's just because my side projects are fairly elementary.
And I agree that AI is pretty good at code review, especially if the code contains complex business logic.
The document is human-crafted and human-reviewed, and it primarily targets humans. The fact that it works for machines is a (pretty neat) secondary effect, but not really the point. And the document sped up the act of doing the refactors by around 5x.
The whole process was really fun! It's not really vibe coding at that point, really (I continue to be relatively unimpressed at vibe coding beyond a few hundred lines of code). It's closer to old-school waterfall-style development, though with much quicker iteration cycles.
The commonality of people working on AI is that they ALL know software. They make a product that solves the thing that they know how to solve best.
If all lawyers knew how to write code, we’d seem more legal AI startups. But lawyers and coders are not a common overlap, surely nowhere as near as SWEs and coders.
Good job AI fanboys and girls. You will be remembered when this fake hype is over.
I don't really see why anywhere near the number of great jobs this industry has had will be justifiable in a year. The only comfort is all the other industries will be facing the same issue so accomodations will have to be made.
Damn it that I’m only 40+ so I still need to work more or less 15 years even when we live frugally.
What that means for society where there are extremely rich people who owns resources and capital, and everyone else is only valued for their dexterity and physical labor (vs skills) I can only guess.
I do think the AI labs have potentially unleashed a society changing technology that ironically penalizes meritocracy and/or intelligence by making it less scarce. The jobs left will be the ones people avoided for a reason (health, risk, etc)