Might effect new buyers decisions I guess, but since about 99% of Tesla's were sold to green, left-leaning buyers, before the Elon hate-fest, I am not sure how targeting that group of people for your hatred is helping any "cause".
Sadly I think, and for some time now, we are well past the point where political action needs to make sense either to the people involved or to the people outside. The message, the narrative, they’re whatever you want them to be. Whether that makes sense - much less where the truth lies - is irrelevant.
Usually this type of thing isn't really about a cause but making oneself feel better. The stuff that is actually beneficial to a cause tend to be less emotionally satisfying.
IT is never static. I have had to take several forks in my career with languages and technologies often leading to dead-ends and re-training. It is amazing how much you learn doing one thing directly translates to another, it can often lead to you not having a specific/narrow mindset too.
Having an LLM next to you means there is never a stupid question, I ask the AI the same stupid questions repeatedly until I get it, that is not really possible with a smart human, even if they have the patience, you are often afraid to look dumb in their eyes.
I'm worried about being replaced by LLM. If it keeps evolving to the point where a CTO can ask LLM to do something and deploy it, why he would pay for a team of engineers?
Forking to different technologies and languages is one thing (I've been there, I started with PHP and I haven't touch it for almost a decade now), but being replaced by a new tech is something different. I don't see how I could pivot to still be useful.
I see it more as “if an LLM can do that, why would I need an employer?”
This coin has two sides. If a CTO can live without you, you can live without an expensive buffer between you and your clients. He’s now just a guy like you, and adds little value compared to everyone else.
I think the replacement for developers won't be CTOs but program managers -- folks with business degrees (or none at all) but who understand the company's needs for the software and can translate them into prompts to build the product without any understanding of how to code. (Some places call these folks 'software anthropologists'.) They'll hone the product iteratively though development almost like a genetic algorithm would, by trial and error -- rejecting or revising the output verbally (and eventually by interacting with components seen on the screen). Vibe programming by business types will replace today's software engineers.
Where in reality can a CTO talk to a human and deploy it? It takes engineers to understand the requirements and to iterate with the CTO. The CTO has better things to do with their time than wrestle with an LLM all day.
Right now we're trained computer masseuses, not yet computer babysitters.
And to torture the analogy further since Im already in this rabbit hole, masseuses and babysitters probably have to put in the same amount of effort in their work.
bugger! More than two visitors to my web site and it falls apart, I might fork out the $10 for the better CPU and more memory option before I post something in future.
The 80's was a weird time, lots of computer graduates were coming into the workplace with pascal largely driven by Turbo Pascal, but the ease of the Turbo Pascal IDE just was not there on mini-computers VMS/UNIX, nor were there any widespread Pascal compilers for micro-controllers. Most soon fell in line with C.
It did however feel like touch and go though in 1985, and I had my feet in both camps, going into the Pascal Camp for personal development on the PC and C for all my UNIX and micro-controller development.
This links to the original article from 5 months ago but on the good news side, many suppliers now have stocks of the RP2350 chips, which should be good for RiscV. Be interesting to know if any changes were made to the silicon in those 5 months, maybe I will google around a bit later.
I generally ignore 1 and 5 stars on Amazon or anything without a comment or username.
Interesting to see the deep tagging system as the categorizations for books are tricky (as an author I know this from a few failed attempts to pigeon hole my first book in kindle) so say If an amazing romance book was accidentally categorized as an adventure or Sci-Fi as it had a bit of action or future tech in it, it would likely get 1 star from the romance genre readers, and vice versa if it was categorized as Sci-Fi or adventure. It is why you rarely get well rated cross-overs. A better category manager would be good for readers.
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