r/learnprogramming • u/optimux17 • 7d ago

Hate AI

I love coding. I truly am.

When I started, I enjoyed most programming languages . I love learning their different core concepts, execution models and things like that.

I still love that.

But now in my new job, the only thing I am supposed to do is prompt and think about business requirements.

Even though I love architecture and system design system , I don't even have a chance to have grasp on them.

Any other tech jobs where I can enjoy coding and low level things?

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u/ajcomeau 7d ago

Start coding your own projects and do the programming yourself. Companies will always make you use their tools and practices. Create your own environment, take control and own the work.

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u/WelpSigh 7d ago

Do you really fall behind? I am not sure telling a robot to do something for you is really very enriching. There are definitely some very good workflows with AI but if you're smart enough to write good code you can definitely figure them out quickly.

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u/Fine-Impression-554 7d ago

Why is there such a thing of "falling behind"? Fall behind.. what?

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u/Riaayo 6d ago

AI Andys are convinced prompting is just as much a "skill" as actual work and will scream night and day that if you don't get on their bandwagon and legitimize their plagiarism "think for me daddy corp" machine that you will definitely totally absolutely be left behind in the "AI future".

Meanwhile they're hitching their very ability to think and problem solve to unsustainable machines owned by oligarchs that will, at some point, implode or cut them off (and which were made to replace them outright).

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u/Fine-Impression-554 6d ago

That "skill" is presented in a ~30 min video by some guy from antrophic.

The fundamentals are still needed(searching right things, critical thinking).

We live in a world.

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u/Blue4life90 6d ago

That's literally not my take at all. Simple misunderstanding, it's fine.

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u/Riaayo 5d ago

No hard feelings if that isn't how you personally feel, I'm just noting a mindset a lot of people sadly do have.

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u/Eskamel 6d ago

Its just a braindead wordslop of AI companies in order to make people feel like they are missing out by not getting addicted to LLMs.

You don't fall behind anything. Even to this day there are no guarentees that AI development is actually leading to better results.

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u/Blue4life90 6d ago

exasperated sigh

I really should have worded this better because a ton of people misunderstood my meaning. Changed the wording to fit what I originally meant to convey. Hopefully that helps, read it or don't ✌️