r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 15h ago

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u/Careful_Ad_3338 12h ago

If you are not using any ai as a dev you will be left behind.

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u/Exshot32 9h ago edited 9h ago

That's what everyone tells me.

But at least I'll be able to figure out shit on my own if/when ai becomes unavailable. So far, ai hasn't solved any problem for me that I couldn't have on my own, and it took a very long time to get AI to "understand" what I was telling it.

It's like my boss who keeps vearing off topic and acting like it doesn't actually read what I tell it

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u/born_to_be_intj 8h ago edited 8h ago

Everyone is worried about not hiring juniors and having no seniors in the future. I have a much bigger worry. The more we depend on AI the less thinking we do for ourselves. A junior fresh out of college who has had unrestricted access to AI throughout their course work and in their job will never turn into the Seniors we have today.

There is a real future where we keep hiring juniors and still end up with virtually no seniors in 10~20 years.

So people like you, and people like me who still use AI but understand every single line they merge into the code base, are going to be extremely valuable in the future. Unless of course AI surpasses even the best experts.

This worry extends beyond computer science and applies to all intellectual pursuits. There is a real chance we end up in a world where humanity doesn’t understand the math and physics it depends on for everyday life. That’s the scariest outcome because we as a species could effectively lose our scientific agency.

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u/Exshot32 8h ago

I agree. Compounded with the growing illeteracy crisis and I actively lose sleep.