Comment by jakeinspace

What scares me about ChatGPT is less so that I’ll lose my job (though it’s possible), but more so that I’ll be using language models to work at higher and higher levels of abstraction doing mainly configuration tweaking. Some of the particular pain points expressed in the article should be removed with AI in the loop development, but it’s another step away from “real programming”, which is what attracted most of us to this field. Yes, creating things is the end goal, but I’m terrified that I won’t be able to extract nearly as much joy when my job becomes largely prompting GPTn to swap out frameworks and UI paradigms for me like magic.