| ▲ | rogerrogerr 8 days ago |
| Does anyone else get dull feelings of dread reading this kind of thing? How do you combat it? |
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| ▲ | bitexploder 8 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Stoicism. Dichotomy of control. Is this something you can control? If no, don’t dread. If yes, do something. Often, all you have firmly in your grasp are things inside of your brain. Catch the negative thought. Acknowledge it. Move on. Do not dwell. Take proactive steps to be ready in your career. You do tech ling enough and you live through multiple cycles like this. |
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| ▲ | ath3nd 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I kind of want to do something to stop it though. It feels like not doing something is a betrayal of all that's good in the world, staying mildly by while evil is happening just in front of us. With collective action and targeted scorn we might be able to prevent these abominations from becoming commonplace. At the same time, I know that the more people go for this approach, the more work there will be for me to fix their mess..but I still think we should stop them somehow. | | |
| ▲ | imiric 7 days ago | parent [-] | | I can relate to your frustration. This future is being forced on humanity by pluto/megalomaniacs who are gaslighting everyone into believing that this technology will be a net improvement to our lives. Meanwhile, the truth is that only those in power will benefit from it, and the benefit to humanity as a whole is very much in question, even by optimistic criteria. If you adopt a slightly realistic viewpoint, let alone pessimistic, you'll realize that the track record of these people is abysmal. They will lie, cheat, and steal their way into ensuring their own prosperity, while the rest of the world burns for all they care. The fact their actions are rarely if ever regulated by governments with the severity they should be, and that they're increasingly taking positions of actual political power, should scare the living daylights out of any sane person. I don't know what the solution to this is, but I'm increasingly leaning towards going completely off grid and checking out from society. Even if this path doesn't result in our literal annihilation, it will have similar practical effects for the vast majority of humanity. |
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| ▲ | rogerrogerr 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | All appreciated, thanks. Any thoughts on what those proactive steps would be? I'm early-career (26yo, "senior" software dude at a defense outfit). | | |
| ▲ | evanmoran 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Very seriously, try not to read about it. Delete the apps that make you most anxious. Then eat better, exercise three times a week, and together those will help you feel better and sleep better. Finally search for people or activities that give you energy and focus on those. Maybe it’s jamming on a guitar. Maybe it’s reading. Just embrace the moment you’re in for a bit and I think you will be better prepared for anything. | | |
| ▲ | rogerrogerr 8 days ago | parent [-] | | Appreciate it, genuinely. | | |
| ▲ | ath3nd 7 days ago | parent [-] | | If passivity doesn't work out, there are active ways to achieve fulfillment. I think we should stand up for what is important in life: craft, fulfillment, skills, and actively oppose people, tools and activities that trample on good. Still do the workouts, still do the best job you can, but also make sure to use satire, ridicule and humor to make the people writing posts like this just a tad more uncomfortable and second guess themselves before posting a link to a vibed blog with such low quality. |
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| ▲ | bitexploder 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s hard. It mostly comes down to learning new things, playing in spaces you don’t often play. I am 45 now and work in big tech. Just keep learning, growing. Embrace AI, understand how it works, what it is good at. Be the one to try things like in this article. Have an opinion and be right more often than not on AI. Not much else to do. Stay sharp and we will all see what happens :) |
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| ▲ | shaky-carrousel 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| By being there when FrontPage was released. This is just the same, all over again. |
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| ▲ | swader999 7 days ago | parent [-] | | FrontPage with Clippy of to the corner yelling 'You're absolutely right!' |
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| ▲ | slaterbug 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Enjoy the calm before the storm, while it lasts. I’ve also been focusing on squirreling away as much cash as possible before I’m eventually laid off. |
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| ▲ | refactor_master 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My company’s use of code is a means to an end, not the goal. If we could just have all our code written in bash loops that’d be a brilliant time saver. Unfortunately, some of the code is very gnarly business-y, poorly tested, and may even have wrong assumptions about the business. Additionally, we have multiple languages, both software and hardware products and finally there’s also the question of external stakeholders, of which there are many. So AI would need a tremendous amount of oversight for that to work. |
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| ▲ | mexicocitinluez 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Embrace it. It's not crypto. It will 100% be around for the foreseeable future. Maybe not in the form it currently exists and maybe not even at the scale it currently exists, but it's here to stay. As developers, we're just as biased as the CEO at the top trying to hawk this stuff but in the opposite manner. |
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| ▲ | jplusequalt 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >Embrace it. Embracing it means the software we all rely on becomes progressively worse, and our ability to understand and fix that software will decrease as well. Embracing this also likely means we accept that our salaries will decrease, while others will lose their jobs outright. Finally, it means we accept a world where people are now all reliant on AI trained and deployed by a select few companies to do our thinking. This is especially irksome when these companies are ran by the same people who previously ruined public discourse through social media apps, and gave a generation of children mental health issues and insecurities. | |
| ▲ | sneilan1 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, thank you for being one of the few people to appreciate this experiment. Sure, maybe it's a little wonky right now but I'm glad someone took this risk and tried the "jesus take the wheel" move with Claude Code. We, as human beings, keep trying this and eventually figure out how to get models to build more and more of the software stack for us and professionally! |
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| ▲ | spion 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Try actually doing it, realise how very far the outcome is from what the blog posts describe the vast majority of the time, and get dread from the state of (social) media instead. |
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| ▲ | ghuntley 7 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes, but the cooked thing is you just run more loops with the right prompts and you can resolve defective outcomes. It's terrifying | | |
| ▲ | spion 7 days ago | parent [-] | | No, it still doesn't work. But the only way to realise it is to actually really try using it. |
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| ▲ | zdwolfe 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, and so far I haven't been able to combat it. |
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| ▲ | dhorthy 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| combat how? (And yes, yes I do) |
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