abroszka33

I like a lot of things as well, yet I don't feel I can contribute after work. I already spend 8 to 10 hours at work. I can't find the motivation to do more.

Of course there are. But do they matter in our current system?

I'm sure private equity understands it very well... That's why they profit so much, they understand what to destroy.

Not surprising at all. There are no incentives for anyone to contribute. And why would there be in this financial system?

You can still code the interesting parts. We all need some mental gymnastic to keep up. Leetcode or writing the parts that interests you, it doesn't matter.

Yes I worked, almost for a decade. I know everybody loves talking there, but that was true before AI as well. Good thing is that with AI, big tech is going away. Who needs 5 layers of management when 5 guys can replicate their product.

Why would you leave software? Sitting down and working in silence and thinking is still a very rare and valuable skill, the talking part is not so much.

If AI solves all coding and software then we are not going to sit around talking, it will be the time to sit down and do some very complex deep work that needs silence, concentration and understanding.

For you it will be paradise, you can also just point all the people to talk with your agent instead of you.

> I think good products carry something of the people who make them.

Yeah, look at modern AAA games vs. small indie games.

Because it's a bullshit slop research. Under computer programmers there is "Develop Websites" at 0. Apparently AI cannot write web sites. Or just nobody looked at the slop they generated at Mercor.

> We software engineers and lawyers would be smart to start retraining (and adjusting our living standards) now!

Yes like all the drivers and truckers who retained 10 years ago because self driving cars will take their jobs. Lucky all of them retrained in time!

Where does all of this end? If they keep this growth up, or even if they slow to a linear growth, they will produce more code than humanity combined pre-AI. That's scary.

Just use Git, by the time it becomes the bottleneck you can prompt your own Git alternative.

Same thing we argued about Google, that now we don't spend time learning stuff to remember, but we can just look it up and use that time to do more, spend it on more important problems than remembering. Yet it made us stupider.

Two things can be true at the same time. Google rotted our brain and AI will rot our brains even further. Google made remembering unnecessary. AI makes thinking unnecessary.

What else is possible in our personal lives other than to eventually let the internet go? I'm almost certain that 90% of the content I read is AI slop. Software in general is horrible, advertisements and dark patterns are everywhere. Even offline, it ruined movies, series, books and games. Now I have to research an author before buying a book to make sure that they are real and they don't mass produce AI slop.

Sure, I will still use internet and AI professionally, because they are paying me to do it, but it will be just a tool.

Then show a real task where text is limiting. Don't make up stupid examples.