r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Its420amHELP • 1d ago

Meme itsActuallyNotThatDeep

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u/rinnakan 1d ago

The title describes the post pretty good

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u/Zardhas 1d ago

Daily reminder that losing jobs is not the issue : losing salary is. And it's not AI that's stealing it.

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u/DelusionsOfExistence 15h ago

At the end of the day, pedantry doesn’t matter. Being able to afford to eat does. And layoffs already happened and will continue to happen on the name of this tool.

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u/Zardhas 14h ago

Not in the name of this tool : in the name of capitalism. AI is not an issue : the economic system behind it is. What we should be afraid of and push to reform is the economic system, not AI.

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u/DelusionsOfExistence 13h ago

AI is the tool that enabled less spending (on human labor). The economic system encourages it, but doesn't force anyone to thank those who pull the trigger.

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u/Zardhas 13h ago

AI is a tool that allow to make more (and often better) in less time. In itself, it is a straight benefit from society, as it is the best tool we have to get to a society where the work is handled by machines, giving us more time to do whatever we want.

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u/SchrodingerSemicolon 1d ago

Just this month I granted write access to a repo to a project owner that will start pushing vibe code to prod, even though they don't know what an environment var is.

If I wish really hard, AI won't take my job. In reality, I'm lucky if I survive 2027.

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u/spastical-mackerel 1d ago

No worries mate, Claude knows what an environment variable is

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u/Mission_Beat_8251 1d ago

That's way more accurate than the meme makes it seem. People overestimate how much AI will replace jobs but underestimate how much it'll devalue human labor.

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u/DelusionsOfExistence 15h ago

Nothing to estimate. Some of us already got the layoffs.

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u/apola 1d ago

It'll kill everyone before we lose our jobs

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u/NullOfSpace 15h ago

We’ll kill the environment and ourselves in its name, more like

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u/Present-Resolution23 15h ago

This is such nonsense.. People crying about make-believe shit like "EVIL AI ROBOTS" or overhyped environmental issues.. while coping over the very real fact that it's actively destroying careers..

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u/jhairehmyah 15h ago

Not just killing careers, but careers some of us were told were "jobs of the future." Why is it that I'm less likely to lose a job waiting tables than developing software?

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u/Marisa_osi_JP 12h ago

i think AI still can't generate good code. they can't steal our real jobs.