I am genuinely sad and feel I’m losing something and if I do everything like I used to do, I am pressured that I waste time.
Ignoring how disrespectful that behaviour is, I can't understand what value he thinks he brings in. Were you hired to be an interface between me and Claude? Because I don't need you. You are just accepting that you are redundant by doing that.
Did you feel similar when Wikipedia was created or Google or when you first got access to the internet?
All of these tools have made digging into subjects and learning easier. I find the same with AI. I love it when a random thought pops into my head and I can explore it with an AI such as Gemini. Then ask it for the sources it used so that I can read further.
AI is just a tool, much like StackOverflow. It doesn't prevent creativity, it just makes it easier and more accessible.
You are forgetting that AI can also use tools.
And those AIs can be used as tools as well by other AIs.
The moment you start working on something, someone else is already automating the exact thing you are doing now.
Good. If a machine can do my job then I can work on something more interesting. Perhaps a more interesting problem to fix is having the people working on something getting told about the automation.
Oh my god, you don't get it.
The more interesting thing? Someone else is already automating doing that exact interesting thing you are doing now.
All the way down.
I have enough money that I could just throw my socks with holes to throw trash and buy new ones inconsequentialy, but mending them by hand gives me something, it is kind of therapeutic and a sense of accomplishment.
Im sure there are machines that could do it in a second, or a patch I could stick on it as well.
Point being that we can still find satisfaction in doing things by hand that technology can do fast/easily. We just stop doing it by hand for profit.
Much of modern life is automating away the boring useless bits.
AI, on the other hand, changes the conversation on what’s boring or useless.
>AI, on the other hand, changes the conversation on what’s boring or useless.
A compression algorithm finds and removes redundancy. Simple automation is like simple compression algorithms (RLE like). AI (which even internally - at least the encoding to the representation parts - looks like compression) just like a much more sophisticated compression algorithm which finds and removes redundancy where we thought the creativity and originality were.
It does look like our civilization has accumulated a lot of cruft masquerading as creative/original/intellectual activities ("Bullshit jobs" comes to mind, also all that talk about stagnation in science, and all those huge collective collaborations - where collective there is a stagnation - and now with AI individual scientists will again be able to wield all the bleeding edge across the wide fields while digging deep in desired target research direction), and the AI is the vacuum cleaner for that cruft.
Patches I tried didn't last and I haven't found a machine that works. And it feels bad to buy a new pair of socks only b/c of a hole in the heel.
And if your CEO is right, then surely their business is doomed? If they don't understand, or can't maintain their own product, what's to stop their customers from just "making it" themselves?
How is anyone happy with this trajectory?!
Code quality does matter it’s just marketing people being shortsighted because their job is to react to the market. LLM gives a sense of « it’s kind of easy to build stuff, why bother loosing time with quality when I’m there at 80% in 20% of the time ? ».
There is compounding effects where given any big enough system this won’t scale, even Google did talks this week on this topic. So I guess you’re right, time will prove who’s right or wrong and what bet was the best with which consequence
I don't know. Does it?
Also: Maintainability is a property for which the associated costs don't show up right away.