What does it say about me, that I was SURE his article was going to be admitting out loud that we are engineering ourselves into obsolescence, a lot of us are really enjoying it, and nobody is seriously discussing how afraid we should be for our families and future. I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it. Worse, I’m afraid to THINK it, like a cognitive dissonance while Claude writes module after module for me.
I am enjoying the hell out of it, I’ve done nothing else for dozens of months, and I feel that hence I am/developers are in a unique position to understand what type of hell - or heaven - our society might experience in the next five years. Shouldn’t we be openly discussing how we can leverage this foreknowledge?
> I’m afraid to mention it professionally, given we have a literal policy around “AI doomers” (not the exact term) that has the word “separation” in it.
Dude, your employer is toxic AF. Look for a new job starting today.
The joy of US "at-will" employment is that every company's Code of Conduct reserves the right to "separate" you for undermining mission alignment. The whole system is toxic.
Why would I care? I’ll either steer the agents, or I’ll collaborate with them. Or I’ll do something else equally fun. It’s not as programming is the only worthwhile endeavour in the world.
Programming has one of the easiest working conditions out there while paying a fortune. I came from retail and made a fraction of what I make now for way harder work.
I wont go for a 3rd career, I'd rather be jobless for decades like the sailors in the cities around me over having to learn a 3rd job.
idk...all the Claude-generated code I'm seeing checked into our codebase is as bad as the code the same people wrote themselves. Claude probably makes it less strenuous and faster for them to produce those results though.
Uh oh.. maybe it's a problem to grease the wheels of the least-skilled...
