Readit Newsludicrousdispla commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Thanks for reading / commenting this post. Initially it seemed like I received a bunch of very negative comments, now I read most of the thread, and there are very good points, articulated with sensibility. Thank you.
I wanted to provide some more context that is not part of the blog post. Since somebody may believe I don't enjoy / love the act of writing code.
1. I care a lot about programming, I love creating something from scratch, line by line. But: at this point, I want to do programming in a way that makes me special, compared to machines. When the LLM hits a limit, and I write a function in a way it can't compete, that is good.
2. If I write a very small program that is like a small piece of poetry, this is good human expression. I'll keep doing this as well.
3. But, if I need to develop a feature, and I have a clear design idea, and I can do it in 2 hours instead of 2 weeks, how to justify to myself that, just for what I love, I will use a lot more time? That would be too much of ego-centric POV, I believe.
4. For me too this is painful, as a transition, but I need to adapt. Fortunately I also enjoyed a lot the design / ideas process, so I can focus on that. And write code myself when needed.
5. The reason why I wrote this piece is because I believe there are still a lot of people that are unprepared for the fact we are going to be kinda of obsolete in what defined us, as a profession: the ability to write code. A complicated ability requiring a number of skills at the same time, language skills, algorithms, problem decomposition. Since this is painful, and I believe we are headed in a certain direction, I want to tell the other folks in programming to accept reality. It will be easier, this way.
Of the four coding examples you describe, I find none of them compelling either in their utility or as a case for firing a dev (with one important caveat [0]).
In each example, you were already very familiar with the problem at hand, and that probably took far longer than any additional time savings AI could offer.
0. Perhaps I consider your examples as worthless simply because you gloss over them so quickly, in which case that greatly increases the odds in most companies that you would be fired.
The interaction with the terrain reminds me of Astroneer, although I don't know if that game uses SDFs.
ludicrousdispla commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda
This is something I see repeated everywhere but I've been using Linux daily on all sorts of laptops for a little over 15 years and never struggled with this issue.
But during my brief period on Windows I would get issues like my colour settings changing or the behaviour of certain meta keys being switched out when I woke a sleeping laptop.
Certain versions of Ubuntu have this issue on Thinkpads, which requires updating a specific setting in Grub.
ludicrousdispla commented on Ask HN: Anyone else feels that their job quality has declined severely recently? · Posted by u/falloutx
From what you describe it sounds like software development is starting to get categorized as 'labor', and that a lot of companies will be having system problems over the next few years.
ludicrousdispla commented on The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/1659447091
Can we please wait till at least Q2 with another historic event? I'm getting tired.
Yeah, I need to catch up on my reading of the Epstein files.
ludicrousdispla commented on Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress newsweek.com/eliminate-h1... · Posted by u/ekropotin
It's not "normal competition" to be displaced by immigrants in your own country. Allowing that is simply allowing the capitalist class to assault and weaken the labor class.
And that is why elimination of the H1-B visa program has support from the left.
ludicrousdispla commented on How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders elbowgreasegames.substack... · Posted by u/spacemarine1
Ask any educator what the biggest positive change was to U.S. high schools in the 1970s and they'll probably answer that it was the ban on smoking in schools.
I expect a similar response in the future regarding bans on social media.