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AI Makes Me Sad

195 points · 243 comments · mondobe

  1. dude250711 · · focus · HN ↗
    > I don't want to prompt Codex for a living, or Claude for that matter.

    This phase will last like 2 years max I am guessing. What is it with all the linear extrapolation of AI progress these days?

    1. vaughands · · focus · HN ↗
      You think software engineers will go back to writing everything by hand?
      1. bigbuppo · · focus · HN ↗
        The engineers probably still are. The vocational programmers, well, they'll probably end up toiling away in the fields.
      2. fnctrev · · focus · HN ↗
        unless the CFOs can figure out the cost benefit of humans vs robots it might happen.. They might start to question the value of Steve’s $50k/month Claude spend.
      3. CuriouslyC · · focus · HN ↗
        Nah, we won't be engineers in 2 years, we'll be product steward/solution architects/etc, and our job will be to be liability lightning rods and customer/c-suite facing puppets for agents, while trying to add a small amount of taste/style into the outputs.
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