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@matthew_petti SF psycopathy aside, it's become increasingly undeniable for tech people that this will be no smaller a change than Industrial revolution. The upheaval would be even bigger. People don't have an idea of the gravity of situation. And the first step will be increasing unemployment

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@flarette_dev @trq212 I don't disagree with that. Industry's process was logical for the nature of work done in pre ai times, I just feel it forced people to limit themselves in too narrow boxes. It's like Adam Smith's pin factory, has obvious benefits but leads to mental stagnation of workers.

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@mr_scientism Not entirely true. Alot of swe guys have realised the implications of AI trajectory and openly admit it, the ones who haven't are usually from more slow moving orgs who haven't caught up, but eventually it will be plain for all. Finance will be next.

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@gfodor The impact is too domain specific so its easy to understate. If you go outside most people's lives are not affected by some math proofs. Once the results become more ubiquitous across tangible parts of everyday life, like robots/medicine, then no one will be able to ignore it

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@matthew_d_green Considering the nature and difficulty of the math problems cracked by openai, how likely is it that these problems have been also been solved and results kept private or will be solved in the near future

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@GergelyOrosz Companies have been hiring 'content writers' for stuff like this before AI. Is there any surprise most online content is unreadable. People writing about what they are told to, just to get paid, instead of what they know or want to share. AI naturally accelerated this slopfest

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@meowkoteeq You can't, the choice is not there any more, but industry is in dissonance about this. Expecting you to pump the equivalent of months code in days and at the same time expecting you to make better decisions and understand the code like the old times. It's humanly not possible.

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@gfodor Most of these are result of "I don't want it to be true so it's not true" thinking many people have about things that are too difficult accept yet one can do little to change. Denial in the face of horror.

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@GergelyOrosz Worry about the day we will not even be able to tell. The future looks bleak for open internet

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@hiiinternet First recruiter with a brain

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@tekbog Jensen can pretend otherwise but most juniors have been priced out. Even a junior can now only survive by producing a seniors level of output which is impossible without years of learning by experience or accepting quality tradeoff, but why would company hire them in that case.

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@_cmd8 But the rate at which code is being pumped out, even by those who haven't automated everything, is ridiculous compared to pre-ai era. You can't manually write/review that much, so what's the other option. The choice has already been taken away.

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@Tristanrhee3 Microsoft

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@prasenx I never imagined stackoverflow would see a mypspace like obscurity

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@mikeknoop If the code generation stays at the rate it currently is (more likely it will increase than decrease), it will be virtually impossible to manually write or review and the time/effort involved would not be worth it.

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@mikeknoop Swe is in a weird schizosis with half the people claiming manual code write/review is obsolete vs others claiming it is more important than ever. No other field has such massive discrepancy about practices, imagine doctors acting like this. It doesn't even matter anymore I think

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@SprengmEAcc @haider1 Ah yes the AI companies care very much about the lives at stake

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@thdxr @X Bots were already bad enough, then X went ahead and made it worse by blue checks and monetisation

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@AbhiCodes15 It's a lie sold again and again to plebs that tech and digital advancement will somehow change their lifes for better. If any new tech makes a work easy, the only thing that will change is you will be expected to do more of it now. The only benefits go upstream to employers.