Replace all of that but instead of AI use computers or calculators.

I’m sorry but that is absolutely deranged talk. And you won’t have a choice about pivoting careers. You will be forced to in the same way that nobody in this millennium will hire someone that does their accounting with an abacus. And that’s a good thing.

Now, am I happy that a lot of people will be out of a job and the profits of that will be funneled into a few pockets? Absolutely not, but this doomsday, Amish like talk won’t help that conversation because the problem isn’t the technology. It’s who owns it

Honestly if you don’t find AI code to be helpful that tells me more about you than AI.

It is incredibly helpful barring some very specific niches

Look I’m all for the AI hate but this is just stupid. I’m aware this might not be the most popular opinion here but be warned

Honestly if I were to change jobs atm asking about their AI policy and usage would be one of the first questions that I’d do and if they don’t use it well and haven’t figured out how to integrate it in their company (as a tool, not necessarily as a product) then I’d end the meeting then and there.

I’d quit my current company if they prohibited AI tools. Fortunately they don’t force us to use them, nor but we’re all encouraged to find actually uses for it (which in Software Engineering are a ton). If one of my colleagues wouldn’t use AI in any way I no only would consider them less productive, I’d consider them a worse engineer because it shows they can’t adapt.

AI in general and Claude Code as an example is an AMAZING tool. You just gotta use it properly. I still own the code I ship even if I understand it in less detail than before (that’s the trade off by being able to ship many more features than I could in the past).

I’ve been in this company for a few years now and just in the past months there are so many projects I have done that there was never an opportunity to do so ever since I joined because it would be days/weeks of work and now it’s a couple of hours while I work on other shit.

And people/companies that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in AI every month are idiots who are just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. My company pays me a 100$ month subscription and many colleagues have even cheaper ones. Thats like 1% of my salary and it for sure increases my productivity many orders of magnitude of that.

To bad your American left did jack shit and will never address the real issue

That’s how they won a copa America once

Dont defend the fucker

Same with AI

Are you seriously comparing software engineers to members of a state sponsored terrorist police?

Because they’re working class like you and me?

He’s not saying that you shouldn’t unionize

He’s just saying that while it’s good, it’s not really a revolution so ideally you shouldn’t stop there

They’ll kill old Reddit eventually

And then the site will effectively die

I wouldn’t mind if they did it soon tbf. That way I would find other ways to pass the time at work