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I am done with this shit

258 points · 206 comments · meander_water

vehemenz · 1790163672 · focus · HN ↗
Ever since software became a "prestige" career, attracting the former-would-be-dentists of the world, the entire field has been gatekeeping a lot of mediocre talent. Let's be honest.
If we're looking for a silver lining, AI is an equalizer and creates competition among the mediocre, driving salaries down. It's not all bad.
1. SirFatty · 1790163840 · focus · HN ↗
  "...former-would-be-dentists of the world"
  so.. What do you call a doctor who failed out of med school? A software dev?
2. pjc50 · 1790165028 · focus · HN ↗
  Oddly enough, I met a newly qualified dentist last year who said his parents had advised him not to get into software because AI was going to take all the jobs.
  It's a significantly harder career, but less automatable.
  1. cjg · 1790165551 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://dentistry.co.uk/2024/08/01/robot-dentist-completes-first-dental-procedure/" rel="nofollow">https://dentistry.co.uk/2024/08/01/robot-dentist-completes-f...
  2. raffael_de · 1790168530 · focus · HN ↗
    doesn't make sense timing-wise ... to train as a dentist takes longer than the LLM-hype has been around.
3. i_love_retros · 1790165752 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm mediocre but it's not that I fear for my job being taken by someone better at AI than me (honestly I hate my job so much now I wouldn't care being forced into working in a grocery store). It's that the job has become absurd and anxiety inducing as I am not given the time to understand and build a mental picture of the code that AI is generating, and as the original post says "everyone is spending all day hitting enter" which is fucking true.
4. opan · 1790167145 · focus · HN ↗
  If I could get rid of AI I would be okay with salaries deflating still.

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