No me importa si tenemos opiniones políticas opuestas, siempre que haya respeto y curiosidad genuina por entender a la otra persona, y no una necesidad constante de tener razón.
"Programmers will automate themselves out of existence."
That's what they said.
Programmers laughed so hard they couldn't respond.
Two years into the AI revolution, here's what actually happened:
What the doomers predicted:
> AI writes all the code
> Developers become obsolete
> Only managers and marketers survive
> Programming becomes a dead career
What actually happened:
> AI writes code that needs debugging by developers
> Developers spend more time reviewing AI output than writing from scratch
> The skill gap between good and bad developers got WIDER, not narrower
> Demand for senior developers who understand what AI can't do went UP
The brutal irony nobody saw coming:
AI didn't replace developers. It replaced the developers who thought AI would do their job for them.
Here's the real shift:
→ Junior devs who learn to prompt AI? Productive.
→ Senior devs who understand system design? Irreplaceable.
→ Developers who copy-paste without understanding? Already obsolete. AI just made it obvious faster.
→ Managers who skipped hiring developers? Buried in AI-generated code nobody can understand or fix.
We're not laughing because we're safe.
We're laughing because the people who predicted our extinction still don't understand what we actually do.
AI is a tool. Like every tool before it, it makes good developers better and exposes bad developers faster.
I will expand on my point:
1) You are using AI in your daily life. Search engines are AI-powered, your phone camera is AI-powered (sorry, you haven't become better at taking photos-smudges, blinks-all fixed by AI), Alexa? Siri? Google Assistant? Guess what, they are powered by AI. Netflix, YouTube, Twitch-all use AI to highlight content you're interested in. Google Maps and most navigation apps are now powered by AI to calculate your route. Spam filters, health and fitness trackers, even your online planner-all powered by AI.
You use AI every day to make your life easier and find information faster, you're just too proud to admit it.
2) Witch hunts like with Larian Studios will cause only one thing: they will never tell you they're using AI. You think silly outrage will stop anyone from making their work easier? "Bitch please." I've been here when Photoshop was considered a "real art killer" frowned upon by traditional artists and discarded as "not real art." The majority of art is now made using computer tools.
I remember when tens of thousands of Kodak shops closed down when traditional photography was replaced by digital cameras, millions of people lost their jobs, including me. I don't remember outrage back then.
Let's face it, AI is here whether you like it or not; it will not go away because it makes life easier.
We can be civil about it, accept that studios are using AI, and appreciate that they are willing to be honest with us, or we can fuel witch hunts that will cause studios to be completely silent about any use of AI in their work.
This is no longer Kansas, Dorothy.
Mal que le pese a la Sra. Ministra, mientras no se cambie la Constitución en modo similar a las dictaduras y en contra de los convenios internacionales para protección de derechos humanos, en España no existe una presunción de veracidad según las características físicas de la persona denunciante (sexo, en este caso).
La presunción de inocencia es lo que separa la civilización de la barbarie.
@elvenmaidinn I agree it’s mostly a matter of terminology, and yeah—paladins should be Lawful Good. But technically, if they’re guardians of the Law axis in AD&D cosmology, and there are entities tied to Chaos and Evil… shouldn’t “Good” have its own kind of guardian too?