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Comment · 3 months ago
This comment strikes me as being in bad faith: "Oh so you don't like A? You must be on the side of ¬A!"
I ask, humbly, that people please not do this. Nothing good has ever come of it.
Comment · 3 months ago
Suit yourself, I often wish I could form spores, desiccate, and rehydrate at a more appealing time.
Comment · 3 months ago
However, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!
Comment · 8 months ago
Reminds me a quote from Gibson's Spook Country: "That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: the most interesting applications turn up on the battlefield, or in a gallery."
Comment · 9 months ago
I find AI replies to generally be less annoying and more constructive than comments like this, TBH.
Comment · 10 months ago
I think we might make new jobs, but maybe not enough. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get good at sharing wealth over the next few years. Maybe something like UBI will become so obviously necessary that it becomes politically feasible, I don't know. I suspect we'll probably limp along for awhile in mediocrity. Then we'll die. Same as it ever was. The important thing is to have fun with it.
Comment · 10 months ago
Sharpen sticks, hoard water maybe? We were always going to die someday, I don't see how this changes things.
Comment · 10 months ago
You say this like it's some kind of ominous revelation, but that's just how capitalism works? Yeah, prepare for the future. All things are impermanent.
Comment · 10 months ago
More indirection in the sense that there's a layer between you and the code, sure. Less in that the code doesn't really matter as such and you're not having to think hard about the minutiae of programming in order to make something you want. It's very possible that "AI-oriented" programming languages will become the standard eventually (at least for new projects).
Comment · 10 months ago
I think we're entering a world where programmers as such won't really exist (except perhaps in certain niches). Being able to program (and read code, in particular) will probably remain useful, though diminished in value. What will matter more is your ability to actually create things, using whatever tools are necessary and available, and have them actually be useful. Which, in a way, is the same as it ever was. There's just less indirection involved now.
Comment · 10 months ago
Cheaper than hiring another developer, probably. My experience: for a few dollars I was able to extensively refactor a Python codebase in half a day. This otherwise would have taken multiple days of very tedious work.
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