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I've seen my entire profession vanish overnight due to AI... well, not vanish. But, yeah, software development is WAYYYY different. And I couldn't be happier. I think it's amazing. I see the productivity boost. Even if it means I can't add nearly as much value as I used to.

Sorry, but I don't get why mathematicians are so upset. Like, just accept the knowledge and insights and acceleration in your field! If it isn't "fit for human consumption" because an AI produced, okay... it soon will be explained ELI5 by even better models.

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Did you... Enjoy software development beforehand? Like there is a huge chunk of people that really enjoyed writing software and are bummed that that part of their job is being subsumed by models.

The same could go for mathematics or any field; there are lots of people who enjoy the process and aren't satisfied by being handed and opaque final result

Loved it... love it even more now. So darn fast.

> I don't get why mathematicians are so upset

Their field is at the stage where the humans are “debugging” the AI slop.

They are still imagining how to escape from having to read the generated code. Hopefully they find a way.

I don’t get why you aren’t upset. In general I am actually quite disappointed by how meekly the software engineers handed our industry over to AI. But I am particularly revolted by those who exercise their free will to rise from the foetid swamp and say “come on in, the water’s great!”.

You will own nothing and you will be happy.

I don't see how this quote is relevant here.

Most software developers (or people in any field, working for anyone) rarely own anything they do at work.

And the entrepreneurs running their own companies (which there's an explosion of atm largely because of AI) do indeed "own" the higher-level products and things they're producing, even if AI writes the code.

What is supposed to have changed?

Once you surrender your cognition to a third party, you stop being a person and become livestock instead.

Today, you are training the machine to accept the poorly specified inputs of the CEO's dumb nephew tomorrow.

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