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Comment by lifestyleguru | Hacker News Reader

I became unemployable sometime five years ago, throwing my CV into the abyss since then. This video alone almost gives me epilepsy with music and flickering. Is this how software development looks right now? Every code snipped including secrets goes to some remote server?

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I use a dedicated PC with Ubuntu for the kind of AI assisted development where the AI's has access to the disk.

The only secrets it has are the API key to the AI, a temporary ssh key that can be used with git to access the github repository, and whatever the Brave browser stores for ChatGPT's website. Nothing else. No production keys, no CI keys no code signing keys.

Kind of the same restrictions I use on anything running Microsoft Windows.

Slightly off-topic, but you really shouldn't have any secrets in your code (assuming you mean secrets as in credentials, not as in trade secrets).

The file(s) with credentials are still somewhere out there, so you never open and edit them with the IDE?

Roughly, yes.

I know a lot of developers who have leaned into using AI heavily in their workflow.

I also know a handful of graybeards who refuse on either moral grounds or general distrust.

The output of the prior group though is undeniably, and I really think one is going to have to learn the tools to stay competitive.

The distrust is well-warranted, but the solution is unclear.

You can't fight the invisible hand of the free market. Without AI, you're obsolete now. With AI, humanity is obsolete soon.

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