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What an interesting flood of negative comments with nothing to say. This company has completely changed my career.

If AI went away tomorrow I would find a new line of work because artisanally handcrafting code is the most boring use of my time in the entire world.

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Not hating; just geniunely curious. Why did you get into this career if writing code is/was the " most boring use of my time in the entire world"?

My guess would be lots of money.

Agreed, this seems so strange to me. I got into this career specifically because I liked writing code. There's a dozen other career paths, still in IT, that I could have chosen if I wanted to tinker with computers and get paid well but didn't want to write code. I don't understand it.

Some people like to solve problems, others like to solve puzzles. For a while going into software meant you could solve both, had to solve both.

Because I like solving these types of problems, I like inventing new things, I like fixing old things, I like the software business and automating things. I like this whole realm and I thought I liked coding until I didn't _have_ to do it anymore as a pre-requisite to doing all those other things.

I've just always seen the opportunity that nobody else saw and writing code was the gatekeeper I had to pay for 15 years and I've never had so much fun as I have in the last 18 months.

I like writing code, but seeing my ideas visualized after an hour is more fun than writing code.

And even if AI is disappearing tomorrow and not progressing any further, i see already myself living on a farm with cheap energy (pre invest into solar and batterie) and having my small AI datacenter in basement and running multiply fable level agents 24/7 for different things.

Genie is out of the bottle.

> If AI went away tomorrow I would find a new line of work because artisanally handcrafting code is the most boring use of my time in the entire world.

I too, since I was a child, aspired to be a babysitter.

And I can't think of anything more boring than herding a swarm of agents that are mostly doing low value busywork that would be too expensive to do otherwise.

LLMs are genuinely world-shifting revolutionary technologies that I think will, in the long-run create a much better world for everybody. I think people are associating that with big dollar valuations, but it doesn't follow. Open weight models are already frontier level and continue to narrow the ever-shrinking gap that remains, inference costs are plummeting at an exponential rate, and in the long-run companies, individuals, and others are not going to want the sacrifice of control/privacy/profit that comes from relying on a third party for this tech, especially when that third party is going to be aiming for pricing in line with a valuation aimed in the trillions.

So, in other words - one can both be fully on-board with the LLM future, and also think that this IPO is a clown show.

Welcome to HN - the land of the miserable

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