sesteel

Admittedly, a lot of my identity was wrapped up in those hard earned skills. I have empathy for those struggling to chart a new path for themselves. It does not, however, change the fact that tools evolve. Ultimately, using tools effectively is how we are measured and while you may have needed a shovel yesterday, today you have an excavator.

I think people are getting funneled into a new career path of being a technologist or technology director. People who can ask the right questions at the right time and direct attention to the appropriate areas given the goals and feedback.

I came back from retirement for a couple reasons, one as a hedge against the stock market due to AI. Two, the camaraderie built by working with other people. Three, the opportunity to mentor young people.

AI has made the whole situation suck. Stock market is stressful due to energy and AI. AI has left people working alone managing agents. Any advice regarding development best practices I give to young people might have made sense 3 years ago, but hardly matters now. I look around at all these young people and wonder if they are going to be okay. It has only served to make me feel depressed and put a name and face to any future displacement.

It all seems so pointless.

Your comment on Russia and China is false.

We do things in response to the actions of others; I'll leave it there.

I think I am going to move into a rural area and be a glassblower. I'll never be Chihuly, but my work will be my work.

I agree with this. When people say speed, they often mean cycle time. How fast can I iterate towards a working solution to a problem? A low cycle time can hide many flaws in your staff and hiring. Experienced developers can go slower and be more deliberate because they know where they are generally headed, so they need fewer cycles to get there.

I think it is more than just money. Having a hand in steering the ship that they think will change the world is pretty attractive. I came out of retirement just to watch the spectacle.

The person who wrote the guide is more unusually interesting than the guide itself. I knew something sounded familiar.

The respect only goes as far as to listen to what they have to say. We navigate our experience based on the whims of the rich so it helps to know what they are thinking, but it certainly doesn't confer much respect. Most are completely out of touch.

I am pretty sure human level intelligence is emergent from language use. The more complex the language the higher the intelligence since language is itself a tool used to not only to communicate, but also classify the human experience. Without language, we are fairly primitive relying on instincts and more primitive communication. Feral children are an example of what a base state might be.

Looks like we may be going to go back to the geocities days of primitive websites. I use still use hugo to generate my personal site automatically from markdown upon PR approval.

Why wouldn't you? From both emerge intelligence.

Agreed. For all we know, humans are only considered intelligent locally among ourselves, not universally. Every time we learn more about the universe, we seem to also learn how insignificant and wrong we are.

It has made me stop using Google and StackOverflow. I can look most things up quickly, not rubber duck with other people, and thus I am more efficient. It also it is good at spotting bugs in a function if the APIs are known and the APIs version is something it was trained on. If I need to understand what something is doing, it can help annotate the lines.

I use it to improve my code, but I still cannot get it to do anything that is moderately complex. The paper tracks with what I've experienced.

I do think it will continue to rapidly evolve, but it probably is more of a cognitive aid than a replacement. I try to only use it when I am tight on time. or need a crutch to help me keep going.