Programmers have benefited greatly from asymmetrical power structure before AI

"Submit to my knowledge or else!" is abusive.

People can drive a car without needing an expert copilot. Why should they need a software engineer to use a computer?

Spare the appeals to history as the historical record would show software engineers have unemployed many others. Technology moves on; rotary phone makers and travel agents have a seat for in their support group.

Your self selection and vanity could not be more obvious.

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lkt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think that's a very good comparison. People can drive a car without an expert but they can't build a car. People can use software without being an expert but still require an expert to build software.

AI could provided assistance with building both cars and software, but you still need a decent level of knowledge in either field to get a good result.

	▲	defrost 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> People can drive a car without an expert Not every person can drive a car. > but they can't build a car. Not every person is unable to build a car. Eg: my father, born 1935, still alive, has built double axle trailers, cars and vehicles that work, medical caravans for St Johns Ambulance, ... His education was six years of primary school and these were all "side projects" for himself or for his community. > you still need a decent level of knowledge in either field and the barrier to picking up sufficient knowledge to safely create software, cars, even ground effect flying boats isn't that high for normal human beings .. although it does require a certain can do attitude.
	▲	browski 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Programmers do not build a computer. EEs and computer engineers do that. They are driving (lol) towards the sale of a computer with a model on chip without a programmer salary and benefits adding to cost and resource use (all the tools of the trade need to be stored and copied around). This is capitalism, not honorific obligationism! Saving your job is no one else's burden! Disrupt! (YC crowd 15 years ago). Oh how the turn tables. Move the context of the code to the presentation layer and eliminate state by keeping the hardware focused on computing geometric transforms. Biggidy bam label the data on the display and save both geometry and labels There's no reason for biz logic context to exist in code.

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asdff 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone could be a programmer before ai too.

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browski 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fwiw I find social media scores corny

Just stokes addiction to a false sense of empowerment and social contribution

Downvote away to hide from ideas and opinions you don't like.

Conservative people are the only people so dysregulated by ideas they don't understand or that do not validate prior experience and embedded biases they just try to hide them from view. Not the kind of people whose judgment I concern myself with in any meaningful way

	▲	SilverSlash 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Fwiw I find social media scores corny I agree. We've had large and thriving online forums for at least a decade before upvote systems became ubiquitous and things were just fine.
	▲	rsoto2 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"anybody that doesn't agree with me is a cave-dwelling conservative" yeah keep chatting with the sycophantic psychosis-inducing LLM chatbot, I think you'll have a better time.

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rsoto2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"i'm 14 and this is deep"

LLMs are mass theft of intellectual property. I didn't need them to "drive" this computer for the last ten years.