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AI Makes Me Sad

195 points · 243 comments · mondobe

  1. ramon156 · · focus · HN ↗
    It hurts my heart too :) I thought it was something I had to push through, I was wrong.

    I notice a lot more people moving to a career where they manage, as opposed to do the programming. I see why.

    I'm slowly phasing out of my software role, I don't even have that much experience yet. I just cannot sit behind a PC for 40 hrs a week talking to a chat bot. I would rather do something useful with the time i've been given.

    1. visarga · · focus · HN ↗
      > I just cannot sit behind a PC for 40 hrs a week talking to a chat bot.

      But you could sit behind a PC for 40 hrs a week talking to a REPL (bash, python). Maybe the coding agent is also worthy, but differently.

      1. archagon · · focus · HN ↗
        A REPL is deterministic.

        A REPL's syntax is well-defined.

        A REPL does not pretend to have thoughts and feelings.

        1. osener · · focus · HN ↗
          Python REPL definitely hates me
      2. LarsDu88 · · focus · HN ↗
        REPL? What is this 2008?

        Jupyter Notebook baby. The true likely birthplace of the LLM and transformer, lol

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