Nothing because I’m a senior and LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test, and it remains a waste of time.
I have a job at a place I love and get more people in my direct network and extended contacting me about work than ever before in my 20 year career.
And finally I keep myself sharp by always making sure I challenge myself creatively. I’m not afraid to delve into areas to understand them that might look “solved” to others. For example I have a CPU-only custom 2D pixel blitter engine I wrote to make 2D games in styles practically impossible with modern GPU-based texture rendering engines, and I recently did 3D in it from scratch as well.
All the while re-evaluating all my assumptions and that of others.
If there’s ever a day where there’s an AI that can do these things, then I’ll gladly retire. But I think that’s generations away at best.
Honestly this fear that there will soon be no need for human programmers stems from people who either themselves don’t understand how LLM’s work, or from people who do that have a business interest convincing others that it’s more than it is as a technology. I say that with confidence.
I have been an AI denier for the past 2 years. I genuinely wanted to try it out but the experience I got from Copilot in early 2023 was just terrible. I have been using ChatGPT for some programming questions for all that time, but it was making mistakes and lack of editor integration did not seem like it would make me more productive.
Thanks to this thread I have signed up again for Copilot and I am blown away. I think this easily makes me 2x productive when doing implementation work. It does not make silly mistakes anymore and it's just faster to have it write a block of code than doing it myself.
And the experience is more of an augmentation than replacement. I don't have to let it run wild. I'm using it locally and refactor its output if needed to match my code quality standards.
I am as much concerned (job market) as I am excited (what I will be able to build myself).
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I have a job at a place I love and get more people in my direct network and extended contacting me about work than ever before in my 20 year career.
And finally I keep myself sharp by always making sure I challenge myself creatively. I’m not afraid to delve into areas to understand them that might look “solved” to others. For example I have a CPU-only custom 2D pixel blitter engine I wrote to make 2D games in styles practically impossible with modern GPU-based texture rendering engines, and I recently did 3D in it from scratch as well.
All the while re-evaluating all my assumptions and that of others.
If there’s ever a day where there’s an AI that can do these things, then I’ll gladly retire. But I think that’s generations away at best.
Honestly this fear that there will soon be no need for human programmers stems from people who either themselves don’t understand how LLM’s work, or from people who do that have a business interest convincing others that it’s more than it is as a technology. I say that with confidence.
Thanks to this thread I have signed up again for Copilot and I am blown away. I think this easily makes me 2x productive when doing implementation work. It does not make silly mistakes anymore and it's just faster to have it write a block of code than doing it myself.
And the experience is more of an augmentation than replacement. I don't have to let it run wild. I'm using it locally and refactor its output if needed to match my code quality standards.
I am as much concerned (job market) as I am excited (what I will be able to build myself).