No, more like a retard.
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propablythrown commented on Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI? · Posted by u/keepamovin
Or an LLM... Curious how this stackoverflow-first-grader question isn't flagged to death.
People in the comments wish to provide assistance and share their experience, clearly missing the fact that the person asking didn't even bother to do a simple search first.
The clear answer is "Chad: The Brainrot IDE".
Actual product that pairs vibe coding with brainrot activities like gambling, Tinder and games.
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They won't get rid of all, but many of you will be let go for sure.
For the same reason Richard Stallman only uses free software. Sometimes, it's good to have a moral imperative and stick to it. This is mine.
I'm far enough in my career to know that avoiding coding assistance or LLM-assisted "search" won't make my life or craft worse in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact.
You might be right, as we don't know yet if these tools actually enhance or make our craft better in the long term.
I don’t and I won’t. My large clients do not care. The day they start to require any of that nonsense, I’ll drop them as a client. Simple as that.
I have decided to be radical about AI and LLM: I don’t like them because they are a waste of time, and I would like them even less if they were this magical world-changing technology people want us to believe. I am at a point of my career where concerns of productivity or how to operate in large-scale tech companies are the least of my problems, while I increasingly appreciate the artistic craft of programming and computers, especially in small-scale to improve our lives rather than accumulate profit. So while I could admit LLMs they have their use, I want to consciously follow a path where human intelligence and well-being is of the utmost concern, and any attempt at creating intelligent machines is tantamount to blasphemy.
Under this philosophy, seeing that all the talk about imminent AGI has led to creating spam and porn at large scale, I can only roll my eyes and remain on the sidelines while we continue down this idiotic path of resource extraction and devaluation of human ingenuity for the profit of the few.
I use llms everyday for coding assistance the same way I used search engines in the past, and to that extent I do not see an issue. Why would you avoid that out of principle?
I don't have advice, all I wanted to say is: As a software developer who will almost certainly never retire, with little savings and living in a craphole of a country somewhere far from the USA, I wish I could be in your position.
If you don't have other health issues and/or disabilities, then what's left is to either change your job, or the people you are surrounded by.