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Mostly interested in functional programming and effect systems.
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The latest Grande Panda is an example of that.
It doesn't matter if they are beings or not. They will replace most humans in the offices like machines replaced most humans in fields or industrial plants.
Look I loved our field, functional programming, etc. But the field as we knew it is dead, and if you think that your work is anything but providing new tests/edge cases and occasionally providing some guidance, you're in denial.
There's CVs out there that would've made recruiters go mad 36 months ago sending their hundreth application.
I'm a freelancing consultant since 5 years, I've had 2 major customers now for 3+ years. I have a very good pulse of the market: being good, or being even very good and being among those that brings AI and automation to organizations will not save our jobs.
In fact, AI has sped up so much the work that 2 out of 5 people in my current team are being let go: I find it absurd, our productivity has more than doubled over the last years and we've made ourselves redundant. Money is money, I'm on one side making non-tech workers redundant (people whose job was menial boring office stuff), and building the systems that will make myself redundant.
I get more intelligence and mileage out of few tens of euros on their APIs than I would've got out of Codex+Claude 200$ subscription in June.
If you don't see the downward trend that's a you problem.
They are tweaked all time to maximize views.
Yet there's a typescript compiler vibe coded, 100% compliant.
A vibe coded typescript compiler runs twice as fast as the one maintained by two dozen people led by some of the most brilliant language and compiler experts out there backed by thousands of open source contributors.
All of that by saying "here's the tests, implement it in rust".
Few years from now we'll be fighting to get a semi stable job that will pay like any other office job, and feel lucky we did.
Companies will keep using Google/Microsoft/Amazon cloud offerings due to the ease of extending existing contracts and procurements.
Virtually all my clients use Bedrock or Azure with zero data retention. Not one would use openai/anthropic or chinese cloud offerings.
Only devs do so.
I use DS 4.1 flash it all the time, i struggle to spend more than 1 euro per day on it, even working all day long.
An LLM has reimplemented a 2 times faster version of a program developed by a team of dozens of brilliant engineers led by few of the biggest experts in compilers and programming languages in the world.
While maintaining 100% test coverage and so far compiling every single project that the original compiler did.
If your takeaway here is "yeah, but the other one has been checked by dozens of paid devs and an entire community", and still those dozens of devs with the backing of thousands of contributors could not make a compiler faster I can't buy say: "maybe we humans aren't as good as writing code as we thought and LLMs are exposing us".
Interestingly, your whole comment implicitly has the answer to this. In the future you don't add code or read it, you only add test cases and have the loops work on covering the new case.
In the same way you trust any build of the official compiler: it passes all of the existing tests.
The point was to emphasize the longevity of some animals, as for us humans the US constitution is 8/9 generations away.