I'm a programmer and I'm having more fun than ever thanks to AI. I do think a lot of programmers are pretty conservative by nature, so maybe that's the group that's struggling more. If I had to wager, I think the camp is split between those who spent a long time in university vs self-taught hacker types (I'm the latter).

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rubikscube09 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Fair enough. I don't mean to speak for all programmers (I'm not one). In fact I'm an academic so that's probably why I'm upset.

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smalltime-eel a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just don't understand how it can be fun to commission work from Big Tech

	▲	slowin a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'll take open models any day of the week. We're almost there but they're not quite good enough yet. Re: fun, don't you have a backlog of incredibly weird experiments and projects you'd like to build? I did and now I'm building them, it's very fun (and educational).

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imtringued 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The people who spent a long time in university are actually better off than the self taught hacker types and this has mostly to do with the fact that so many people go through university without learning how to program.

University is not easy, so how did they skip the easy part? How did they get good enough grades everywhere else to pass?

Turns out: They must have done something that has nothing to do with programming but it is still computer science. What was it? What did they learn???

	▲	rubikscube09 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I will say, as a mathematician who likes to make simulations, this part of GenAI has been a boom. At the same time, I do wish it wouldn't do my proofs as well lmao