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Ask HN: How do you personally overcome AI doomerism?

Every time I open HN, it feels like there's another story about AI automating tasks that used to be someone’s job—tools for code generation, debugging, or even design seem to dominate the front page, if we're focusing on the context of software engineering.

It's difficult to avoid feeling pressured or concerned about the future of our line of work, and I'm sure that those in other professions may also identify with this. In what ways do you individually handle these worries? What keeps you from losing sight of the good while navigating the gloom and ambiguity around AI's place in the workforce and, more broadly, in the world?

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I know for sure that we are not going to lose our jobs to it, because it still takes a lot of knowledge to check, fix, and deploy code ,and especially complex one.

It also is so that it often takes a lot more time to accurately describe the problem and the solution you want to in natural language, than it takes to just write the algorithm yourself.

What is very likely to happen is that there will be fewer positions since a lot of hirings only happened because there was a software hype, resulting to more programmers than really needed.

It is also very likely that the wages will be decreased, since any 20yo with basic coding knowledge will offer himself to work as an vibe "coder".

Corporations prefer having dysfunctional products than paying high wages, so you can guess what will happen.

> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> AI automating tasks that used to be someone’s job—tools for code generation, debugging, or even design seem to dominate the front page

From exactly this wording this is good, isn't it?

> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> feeling pressured or concerned about the future of our line of work

My way is consuming less.

> What keeps you from losing sight of the good while navigating the gloom and ambiguity around AI's place in the workforce and, more broadly, in the world?

Not navigating it, taking information from good old books, archiving really worthy books like tomorrow there will be no Libgen.

> workforce

What a nasty word to define oneself.

I read history. Doom and Gloom is kind of the natural state of the world. People have been much less certain about the future in the past.

Also, an economist might cheerily remind you, that you may lose your job and family and everything you care about, creative destruction suggests that the world will be better for people living 50 years from now. The Industrial Revolution didn’t ruin society and end all jobs, in fact it made it all better!

AI is here to stay. I've been using it regularly for awhile now. It can't do my job, but it can make my job much easier.

As any new technological advancement, it's a good idea to stay on top of it or you will find yourself out of work before retirement.

By using it a lot, and discovering that it still sucks in a lot of ways.

Class-struggle comrade, having a materialist pov explains a little for me. AI may not be the issue itself but more a tool used by productivism and capitalism to dominate workers. We have the capacity to restrain its use when not necessary, or use it to soothe proletarians, we just don't for economic and technocratic reasons.

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