I don't disagree that technology is less fun in an AI era. The question is, what other careers are out there for someone who wants to make things?

About a decade ago, I went through a career crisis where I couldn't decide what job to do - whether technology was really the best choice for my particular temperament and skills.

Law? Too cutthroat. Civil service? Very bureaucratic. Academia? Bad pay. Journalism? An industry in decline.

It is a shame, what is happening. But I still think, even with AI hollowing out the fun parts, tech remains the best job for a smart, motivated person who's willing to learn new things.

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layer8 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Academia? Bad pay.

I think that bad pay is preferable to no fun. Of course, academia isn’t exactly a bed of roses either.

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Joel_Mckay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People get bored if they don't find real meaning in their work.

https://medium.com/ideas-into-action/ikigai-the-perfect-care...

Fact is, the tech sector is filled with folks that find zero joy in what they do, chose a career for financial reasons, and end up being miserable to everyone including themselves.

The ex-service people would call these folks entitled Shitbirds, as no matter the situation some will complain about everything. Note, everyone still does well in most large corporate settings, but some are exhausting to be around on a project. =3

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Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The reason we don’t have the right to be lazy is because of the people who find “meaning” in toil. I do not want to work and AI is the most anti work technology in human history.

Bertrand Russel literally wrote a book called “in defense of idleness” because he knew that heavy hitters like him had to defend work abolitionism. The “work is good” crowd is why we can’t have nice things. You guys are time thief’s and ontologically evil. May all work supporters reincarnate as either durian fruits or cockroaches.

	▲	Joel_Mckay an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You seem very passionate about your opinions, but are you happy? The fact remains LLM can't reach comparable human error rates without consuming 75% of the energy output of our entire local galaxy. While I find true Neuromorphic computing topics more interesting, the emergence of the LLM "AI" true believer is deeply concerning to those that understand how they are actually built. =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Tpsk_fnM