Iman Shumpert on KD joining the Warriors: โImagine me and Evan come rob your house, next year you come hang with us while we go rob someone else.โ (@GilsArenaShow)
Kevin Durant responds ๐
couldn't agree more.
back in college, coding felt impossibly hard when i first started.
then i found competitive programming, and it was actually fun. staying up till 3am frying our brains over one problem, reading up on some random algorithm just to see if it could crack it.
then corporate happened. terrifying at first, but you slowly start enjoying the process of building something. the first time a feature i wrote showed up on the UI, that "wow" moment hit different.
now all of that has faded with LLMs.
and the harsh part is, nobody seems to like what they do anymore.
Terrence Tao chooses to do math because he wants to. If math becomes obviated by AI, he could do any other white-collar job better than you. There's no world where he serves mcdonalds and you spend your day typing. If he's serving fries you are in the lithium mines.
Terrence Tao chooses to do math because he wants to. If math becomes obviated by AI, he could do any other white-collar job better than you. There's no world where he serves mcdonalds and you spend your day typing. If he's serving fries you are in the lithium mines.
I used to want a software engineering job.
That dream for me is dying.
I wanted to learn from other engineers that were better for me.
I wanted to debug production issues and be hailed as the hero.
I wanted to hold my head up with pride knowing I spent years learning a language that most people didnโt understand.
But all this is gone now.
Everyone uses AI and tells each other to โjust use AIโ.
This is not the career I want.
This is not what I sacrificed years for.
This is not my dream anymore.