> Show me something truly life changing

Does the fact that I barely wrote any lines of code in the past six months while my job has been for the past 20 years (and still is) that of producing code, feels "life changing" enough?

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overgard 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being unemployed can be life changing too, if it can do your job

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lstodd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That only means those lines of code were devoid of meaning and arguably were best left unwritten. That your job was meaningless and superficial, that you were an unnecessary burden on society.

It is life changing in the sense that suddenly you realise you did not exist for all those years.

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throw310822 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Lol. No, I've always put a lot of care in what I made and strove to give people tools that really made them happy. And I still do, steering the AI left and right. But on the other hand yes, seeing the machine fast-forward through most of the reasoning, weighing, understanding, cross-checking, deciding that used to fill hours of my day is... vertiginous. It's real intelligence, and it makes us much less useful and relevant. If your refuge is that whatever the machine can do has never been worth of a human being, you will find yourself soon squeezed in some very narrow corner, and/ or you'll suffer some deep crisis of meaning.

	▲	lstodd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It's real intelligence It is not. It can shortcut only because it had been done before.