I would count about two-thirds of the comments in this thread as anti-AI hype, and this thread is pretty mild in that regard compared to most other threads here about AI for code.

And this is Hacker News, which you might expect to attract people who thrive on exploring the edges of weird new technology!

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tuesdaynight 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't have decades of experience under my belt, but I feel like the reaction is happening mostly because it is the first time that developers are at the risk of being automated out of work. "Learn a new field" is easy to say when you are not the one that will need to do it. Now a lot of developers are afraid of having to follow the advice that they gave to a lot of workers.

I don't believe that AI will put most of the working force out of jobs. That would be so different from what we had in history that I think the chances are minimal. However, they are not zero, and that is scary as fuck for a lot of people.

	▲	falloutx 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is literally true, we have been automating other people out of their jobs without empathy for ages, so it makes sense at some point the knife would fall on us. Because of low solidarity we have shown with others and even our fellow programmers, I guess we deserve it. My real worry at this point is that the most destructive ones will continue and only the destructive programmers will be safe.

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falloutx 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean most of us dont work in our own thing or open source, so making badly thought & designed features faster isn't really a dream. Software already has so much bloat and slop that this way of doing just scares us.