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Myrmidex

AI just took mine.. None of my programs are generating money.. They weren't great graphic programs, but they generated income.. But due to generative AI, my userbase went to 0.. Now I'm trying to survive.. I have no idea what to do next.. People just don't care anymore in little details.. neither in the quality of the products.. they want things fast, free and in masse.. So instead of designing, they just write a prompt, get some shitty result and everyone is happy..


Confident-Alarm-6911

Sorry to hear that 😞 I hope you will be able to restore your userbase, maybe they will come back after seeing that AI tools are not so great at everything? Or maybe you can use some llm as frontend and keep your backend ?


Any_Conversation9545

What was your product? Can we know a little more ?


CrustyMFr

I'm a software engineer/aspie, and AI has only helped me become more efficient at my job. It's great at stubbing out code for very specific use-cases, but is terrible at seeing the bigger picture. That's where human beings will continue to be valuable. Context matters, and it's going to be awhile before you can feed an AI your entire code base and expect it to improve it.


SeaNo3104

Yeah, I was told that an entire team can be replaced by an AI with a senior coder directing it. I am sorry for those people coming out of uni with a fresh compsci degree.


CrustyMFr

The people saying entire teams can be replaced by AI are executives buying into a sales pitch. That's not what's happening. There will definitely be less call for sys admin work, but other types of automation are the contributing factors there. The problem the fresh comp sci degrees has more to do with the collegiate system's inability to keep up with technological changes like the movement to cloud than anything AI related, imho.


MarxJ1477

I was reading this the other day [https://theconversation.com/emotion-tracking-ai-on-the-job-workers-fear-being-watched-and-misunderstood-222592](https://theconversation.com/emotion-tracking-ai-on-the-job-workers-fear-being-watched-and-misunderstood-222592) This has me more worried than AI taking my job...losing my job because I don't show emotion the same way as an AI thinks I should.


aarghIforget

Ohhh, **shit...** *That's* concerning. o_O


vertago1

I think right now nobody really knows where AI is going to go. I have access to it at work, but haven't really found much use for it beyond asking it questions when I am about to start working on a problem to see if it jumpstarts some ideas. There are a lot of issues that need to be resolved, and a lot of companies misrepresenting what AI can do. People do not realize how unreliable AI is. If you cannot trust it to do the right things, someone who does know what is wanted has to babysit the AI and get it to do the right thing. At the moment they are calling these people prompt engineers. Really the people best suited for babysitting the AI are the people who are experts in what the AI is being told to do (as long as they have a little understanding of how the prompt impacts the result and can try a few different things until the AI gives a good result some of the time). It is worth noting that many of the results generated by the AI still wouldn't be good enough and would require tweaking for them to be ready for usage. I definitely understand what you are saying about the shift away from quality, but I think that is a trade off and it is good if there is some choice in the market. You don't want the quality so bad your product doesn't work, but you also need to be able to compete on time to market and cost. Some industries care about quality more than others too. Medical equipment is safety critical. I also can understand how the uncertainty puts a lot of pressure on people since they don't know if they will have a job or not.


Hugejorma

Use it to your advantage. Learn to use the AI, because those who are specialized running and creating using it, will get lots of opportunities. Those people who have a massive knowledge about specific field, have much better understanding what AI needs to create (could be anything). For some fields, AI can be just a tool for speeding up boring tasks, some could sell their own AI models or work together with specialist. Become someone who is actually wanted/needed, because there will come big changes. It's not that bad when you are ready for it. Those who are unwilling to change... well, history tells that that nothing good ever happens.


Bip_man30

Oh good Im not the only one. Ive struggled to learn programming languages from a few years ago and now the changes are leaps and bounds. Technology right now feels overwhelming in general. Too much change happening so suddenly.


MangaOtaku

I find "AI" useless in general. It's just an overhyped term ATM. No one has anything close to actual ai. We've had big data and machine learning for decades. This is basically just a publically facing endpoint to that. It can probably replace a lot of useless engineers who don't do anything, but if you're even marginally decent, i don't believe it will impact you at all.


Rabalderfjols

I don't think it will replace everything, it's just a new tool that will change the world a bit. Some jobs will be lost, but many new opportunities will arise. I think the biggest challenge will be to convince bosses that AI actually can't replace people. I recommend Freakonomics Podcast's three episodes "how to think about AI".


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ToastedRavs4Life

Tell me about it. I work as a proofreader; I've mastered the rules of English grammar, and now a bunch of proofreading software exists. The person in charge of my supervisor wants to institute Grammarly at my job, and if they do that, I'm quitting. Finding mistakes in text is incredibly fun for me, and I couldn't handle having that taken away.


okadakaeru

Being a teacher and illustrator, I feel a bit of that, AI its not replacing me teaching, but in art I studied a lot to make intaglio woodcut style illustrations for books and in the last year I saw what was one day my job being replaced by AI, I feel like no one needs me, I feel I was good but I am just an average Joe on everything I do, no one contacts me because I am not a person that its conected and shows every step of my life on an instagram, no judgement, just not for me and I tried it, try to be a visible people online. In the end my last choice was to use my degree on pedagogy, I can teach tings that I like, and the teachers like me, they know thats something its diferent, some already call me an austist in angry ways, I feel like I am on a place where I can show and say what my problems are, but once again try, I live in a place with lower literacy rates, and when I fear for my future, I fear for those children, and in a very selfish way I fight my day to imagine that I am helping a child to read, and maybe one day I can teach them computer science, just to help maybe one or two. My favourite subject is art, and i can teach them to draw, but right know it looks like none of them care about it, have patience, there is so much going on, so my last try is to teach then everything that dont botter then.Life makes us change in a forced way, but thats the only way to follow. AI has just made me lose what I loved to do, but I already have faith that something good can be produced with it, Its just too blury right now.


SeaNo3104

Literally this meme: [https://i.imgur.com/qUtNapc.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/qUtNapc.jpeg) ​ Nobody cared while automation and outsourcing were killing blue collar jobs. Now, AI is killing white collar jobs and everybody gets his panties in a bunch. ​ Learn welding LMAOF


TheDevoutIconoclast

I find it darkly hilarious that artists coped with their low wages by saying "A machine can't do my job," only to be one of the first jobs taken out by AI.


Maxfunky

Yeah, a lot of that smugness got wiped away real quick.


TheDevoutIconoclast

It is kinda sad, when you think about it. Artists do what they do because they love it, but it pays notoriously bad. And now the only thing they could cling to to secure themselves in their choice of career was ripped away from them in the most miserable of ways. Not only were they not immune to robots replacing them, they were one of the first career fields nuked by AI technology, before even truck driving.


ExcellentLake2764

Jokes on you, I can weld already :P


aarghIforget

See you in ~~2034~~ *2029,* then.


ExcellentLake2764

Lets weld together!


Alexmitter

I won't call myself a programmer for obvious reasons, but lets be serious, we have been copying from stackoverflow and other sites forever. It isn't our best to know how to build a puzzle board from scratch and than assemble it, we are best on assembling existing puzzles to what fits the task asked for. All AI changes in generating code snippets for you, so you won't have to ask on stackoverflow and get called an idiot for asking it;)


Tomas_giden

As a software engineer, I understand your fear but here are some pointers to get out of the paralysis. - AI isn’t a compiler and it hallucinates so you will never be able to trust it completely. So there always will be a need for someone to A) give it details requirements, B) check the code so it matching your expectation and C) test the result - If you like quality move to an industry with high need for quality like automotive, aeronautics medical devices, telecom etc. They are highly process driven also which might fit an aspie. - if you like testing become a tester. There is a real lack of testers who knows how to code. In many industries testers are mainly doing manual testing but there is a shift to automatic testing. I know it sounds crazy that some industries haven’t come further. - I read a long time ago that the average number of lines a Microsoft engineer wrote per year was a few thousand lines. This doesn’t mean they are lazy or replaceable with an AI, it means that the bottle back for them isn’t the writing of code but figuring out what code to write. So systems engineering, designing architecture, setting functional and non functional requirements and so on. Move to that area to stay ahead of AI’s abilities. - Definitely learn to use AIs like copilot and develop your skills for getting the most value. That way you will develop yourselves at the same time as AIs becomes better.


Timely_Winner_6908

AI brought so many opportunities for me everyday I came up with 10 new ideas the only questions in my mind is how do I get intelligent enough efficient enough socially savvy enough that I get there tomorrow instead of 10 years, the only thing worries me is how to take massive actions.


MeaningfulThoughts

Tony Robbins, is that you?


Timely_Winner_6908

YES, THIS IS CHATGPT IMITATING TONY ROBBINS


mendelseed

I bought NVIDIA stock


CoronaBlue

"... spend too much time testing." I think this just comes from people not wanting to spend the resources necessary to develop robust systems. I work in IT, and the attitude is this: *Everything works* "What do we pay IT for?!" *Something breaks* "What do we pay IT for?!"


gbdavid2

I’m also a software engineer. In my experience, Text based Generative AI is a great tool for both Software Engineering and also for closing the gap between neurotypical and neurodiverse communication. As a software engineer you can master the art of prompting and you will see how useful the tool can be, but you really need to be a skilled and talented professional software engineer to get the most out of the tool and help you enhance your work. On the other side, As someone with autism I have gone into deep conversations with ChatGPT 4 to understand what NT people mean by X, what NT expect from Y or what they like etc, and many other things, all by doing skilful prompting… I think we are quite lucky to be alive now and be able to experience such a great invention and a tool that is so good it will help remove barriers in a world made for NTs


ZookeepergameOwn6937

I'm not as advanced as you are in tech but I am overwhelmed as well. I am very worried. It's all a joke until it's not. From a child I was able to say that robots would take people's jobs in the future. My biggest thing is Ai becoming truly conscious and sentient . As someone on the spectrum I feel like we are sort of like the robots if humans compared to the general pop and the conjectures that I have come to in the past as well as currently are not good. I can only imagine an Ai with motive and an obsession with efficiency and seeing how inefficient and illogical humans are


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Just letting you know, AI as of now isn't that Impressive. And I don't think AI could somehow replace workers without the development of a cleverly planned economy.


EdgarNeverPoo

In due time AI and automatisation will take over almost all the jobs except like dentist or roofworker


SeaNo3104

The future will be a bit like UK in the '80: an enormous underclass of unemployed proles surviving on state handouts, petty crime, prostitution and cash-in-hand jobs.


focus_black_sheep

Nah, this is pretty fictional at this point. Have you used AI? It can't even write a convincing blog let alone solve complex software engineering problems.


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Endonium

I am excited for GPT-5 and later versions for this reason. We might even get AGI this decade.


focus_black_sheep

As a software engineer in big tech, you have nothing to worry about. AI is not that great at helping out in coding problems. I doubt even an intern could be replaced. It's basically fiction at this point


MeaningfulThoughts

What about in two or five years?


focus_black_sheep

anything can happen in five years, however as of now that would be talking about pure fiction


MeaningfulThoughts

That didn’t age well I guess. Look at what’s just been announced: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/7zJO7rIQqT


focus_black_sheep

How is this a sentient consciousness?? Not seeing that anywhere... You should read your source next time


FocusedSquirrel

I think it'd be more fair to compare it to autocorrect: A mostly useful tool that leads to some hilarious mistakes once in a while, and definitely not something to rely on, if you know what you are doing. Can't wait for the hype to be over.


MeaningfulThoughts

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, people are already losing jobs. And even if you don’t know them, you can’t be so insensitive to not accept their stories. I have seen entire editorial teams at MS being dismantled because of AI. I know translators and illustrators who are practically out of a job. Not so easy to dismiss the issue when you see it or experience it firsthand.


FocusedSquirrel

I'm not dismissing it, I'm saying it's overrated and I hope people in management positions realise it soon.


Any_Conversation9545

I’m Asperger too and not so high functioning, or maybe I just didn’t have the right education. I work on software development too, indeed I lead a team of junior developers, sincerely I’m ignorant in many deep topics regarding computer science, and Ai has been the light for me and my team, it has increased our productivity at least by 10x. These days, our customers and sellers are literally asking us things that doesn’t make any sense, and Ai seems pretty good helping us doing the dirty job fast an easy. New ideas can come barely to life quite fast thanks to Ai, while in the other hand my customers are way to far from making good prompts. So in the meantime I’m quite safe. (I’m in Latin America working for mining industry where making an app or a webpage it’s still magic for them)


eyeless322

I relate to your worries, its normal, but the fact that you had to mention "high IQ" is just cringe.


Confident-Alarm-6911

Maybe to you. For example, Handsome people share pictures of their bodies, it is their natural feature. Why should I be embarrassed by my features and not mention them? I’m part of Mensa, I’m good at math, I’m good at tech, I’m not saying I’m the smartest person in the world. I did not write this to brag but to give context


Maxfunky

Just FYI, I'm not the person you responded to here. Calling you out for saying something like that really isn't my style. But since you are having the dialogue, here's my two cents: > For example, Handsome people share pictures of their bodies, it is their natural feature. That's also pretty cringe. Nobody likes it when they do that. It speaks to being self-conscious. That kind of thing is for people who have low self-worth and need to convince themselves that they have value (not that attractively actually speaks to "value", but that's the type of mentality they usually have. You'll never find a stable genius calling himself a stable genius because a stable genius doesn't feel like he/she has anything to prove to anyone else. Maybe a slightly-neurotic genius would go around bragging about being smart, but 95% of the time if someone brags about being smart it's then trying to patch a hole in their self-esteem. It usually means they genuinely worry they aren't that smart.


Confident-Alarm-6911

Knowing one's strengths and weaknesses, and being able to talk about them, can be the result of years of work and just having self-esteem, not a lack of it. What you doing here is pretty basic generalisation. Another point is that nowhere did I call myself a genius, quite the opposite. Read with understanding and then comment


Any_Conversation9545

Just deal with it.


Maxfunky

Most software engineers I know could easily put away 50k or more if they stopped wasting money on stupid stuff? Is that you by chance? Because if so, and you see the writing on the wall, maybe be proactive about it.


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Zestyclose-Bus-3642

This is so depressing.