you may be right on this hunch. but I think the old world is no longer there now :( more thinking is expected per unit time

Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.

Noble thought, but words are empty. Have you perchance written up anything specific?

The only one who's written thus is Marx, but those ideas has not found broad socital support.

Nursing perhaps? It seems like caring for other people would be useful even in an otherwise runaway AI world.

My other daughter is likely to go into something medicine-releated. That's a good suggestion. My oldest daughter really doesn't like touching people, so medicine is probably the last thing she'd ever want to do.

> Prospective clients ask Claude to do the work they might have hired me for

In all the 10 articles, I think this is the only thing really.

I think we have to learn how to overcome and thrive in the new world. The gravy of CS careers is gone for all :(

Exactly. Nothing hits home about what's about to hit you, now and in the foreseeable future, like when your livelihood today is materially affected by widespread availability of LLMs that can passably mimic your highly specialized skills.

How long can you afford to stay in this phase? Is there some framework you can suggest where this path works?

My existence is defined not but what I adopted but what I sabotaged or refused to deal with. 30 years in I haven't made a mistake and I don't think I am making one here. The positive bets I made have been spot on as well. I think I have a handle on what works for society and humanity at least.

When I say AI, I mean specifically LLMs. There isn't a single future position where all the risks are suitably managed, there is a return of investment and there is not a net loss to society. Faith, hope, lies, fraud and inflated expectations don't cut it and that is what the whole shebang is built on. On top of that, we are entering a time of serious geopolitical instability. Creating more dependencies on large amounts of capital and regional control is totally unacceptable and puts us all at risk.

My integrity is worth more than sucking this teat.

When you say sabotage, how exactly?

Or is it limited to refusal to use LLM, which is a strategy, but more like becoming a hobbyist programmer then.

Well it's mostly making sure the risks are properly traded off with suitable demonstrations.

I guess a long way from "fucking loom smashing" then. Makes this whole thread moot.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The antidote to runaway hype is for someone to push back, not to just relent and accept your fate. Who cares about affording to. We need more people with ideals stronger than the desire to make a lot of money.

Sure, hype pushback is fine.

the original post is an example of how. Every programmer is discovering slowly, for their own usecases, that the agent can actually do it. This happens to an individual when they give it a shot without reservation..

No this is still the "bargaining/negotiating" phase thinking. After this is when depression hits when for your usecases you see that the code quality and security audit is very good.

hahaha

The author has arrived at resentful acceptance of the models power(eg: "negative externalities", "condemn those who choose").

But the next step for many is championing acceptance. Eg "that the same kind of success is available outside the world of highly structured language" .. it actually is visible when you engage with people. I'm myself going through this transition.

The response I get offline is that there's millions of seniors right now that can last a couple decades.

I don’t know about the rest of them, but my rates keep going up. And the more I read takes like this the more I ask for

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