SidTheITGuy
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A moral dilemma. What do you think?
I reacted to a video having the title "I was a tech worker for 20 years. And then AI happened"
I came off a lot mean than usual, but I did it on purpose. I am absolutely tired of this "give up" and "sympathy" culture that we have going on.
At what point do we draw the line of accountability? 20 fucking years in the industry and you're struggling to make ends meet? seriously?
I can sympathize but there's only so much of a limit.
The dilemma is me not able to decide whether I did the right thing or not.
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money supremacy... and I'm over here being ditched by indian recruiters that can't spell and incoherently setup meetings and cancel them even though they asked me to agree to a meeting first and I didn't reply yet and why are they telling me "do not fail" and then failing their own meeting
is it a moral dilemma? isn't everything just a social cost dilemma?
What’s the dilemma? Choosing between being an asshole or being dishonest?
yep
I’d pick being an asshole.
ofc you would
Being seen as an asshole for telling the truth for me is better than being a dishonest piece of shit.
It's pathetic. My skills became more important than ever thanks to AI. If you're 20 years a dev but you can't see what the value of AI is in good hands... Omg.
But people being afraid when they see a Windows GUI being generated and so on. Yeah, very impressive, but what is the use case? Also, when doing professional development stuff must be right, not kind of right-making working with AI already a bit harder.
And BTW, what a soccer. A few devs have to go and he one of them. Who's fault is that? Not AI.
As stated on my website "Look to the guy next to you, he got to go..". Maw, start getting experience before he does it.
I actually think that AI makes people smarter. It showed me how stupid people actually are. So, now we all can produce whatever we want like a freaking company, all eyes are on a mediocre Photoshop clone. Dude, that part part is 90% of the work. Is that fucker even a de? You can't make smth half baked and say you've done it. That guy said that it's over for software. Oh yeah? Well? Where is my Photoshop clone then? I see nothing.
There are two kinds of people in the world. The people that think they can do it and the people that know they can do it. Because they actually did it.
> 'There are two kinds of people in the world. The people that think they can do it and the people that know they can do it. Because they actually did it.'.
I have just the clip for that.
Nobody cares about AI anymore. The yanks are gonna crash their economy after the mid terms (once trump wont have free hands to hide the pile of shit he created) and then AI will be the least of our worries.
AI didn't do shit. It's the retards managers who think the java guy can now fix the printer, do the company website and deploy everything because of chatGPT. It doesn't work. The economy is in shamble, nothing fucking works anymore. AI destroyed way more than it created.
It's 2027. ChatGPT is like 5 years old. Computer talks now. Move the fuck on
Can't upvote. AI did do a lot. But the thing is. We didn't need it. Why should we ship software faster? You know? The development speed always was already too high thanks to languages like python. Those destroyed way more than AI. It's how the losers came to power. Now we have AI. We can build everything in C++ now in extremely high quality like never before. But nooo. What are we doing? We let AI write crap. We should really take advantage out of it. A new era should've startrd a year ago already but people are ducking retarded. The fucking half working photoshop is written in Rust now huh. Also a result of students that don't know shut that invented their own problems. Oh unsafe language. Fuck you fuckers. Unsafe programmer you mean. It is insane the amount of shut people do instead of learning a bit malloc. Yeah C++ is unlearn able and nobody with a clear mind would grade himself above 7. But dudes, use a subset. It doesn't matter at all. You can write C++ with the sake simplicity and safety as Microsoft fucking visual fucking basic. Mark my words. @dolphin am I based fagot wannabe fish? I'm pissed at you.
@retoor after reading ostream’s comment, do you still think he’s wise? 😅
I've always said so. Everything but C is retarded.
I’m not saying you changed your mind. retoor somehow has this misguided opinion of you that you are wise, lol. I think the comment from you that I’m referring to might change their mind.
My preference would be for the brutal truth instead of the comforting lies.
but think of everyone else's screaming... do you have no empathy?! humanity?!
I'd think this could be attributed to the individuals generation raised on participation trophies. Taught that they're somehow entitled to something && the world is a giant marshmallow && we should just hug each other. ...could be wrong, though.
I dunno. I think there's more to this. The LLMs have gotten more powerful, sure. But I'm still seeing the most idiotic stuff in code reviews and some of my devs just commit the LLM summary instead of writing it in their own words.
People still need to do the human part, or else you just increase the tech debt burden.
I've got a lot of terrible devs in recent interviews, so sure .. a lot of them are losing because they're just not very good to being with. But even highly skilled people are having trouble just getting interviews.
It's a weird world right now, and we shouldn't just dismiss it.
There was a time that I doubted like - how can I show that I'm an OG? But not all anymore. Not at all. When talking about slop, it's getting worse 😂 AI engineering is constant development. Skills raise like a maniac. It's the reason I promote it to my friends so hard. Please do not fall behind. On the other hand - vibe coding became 20x easier. Yes, everyone can build applications now. But in real world it's about taking responsibility. I can. A vibe coder could but it's bad for their sleep I guess.
At office @Niggdl they had a kind of introduction to vibing from a non-dev. He said to use ai for literally everything and doing nothing yourself. Well, yes, I do that too. But he let AI even choose language and so on. Dude, that thing chooses not the best but the most popular. Tasaa, another react site ☹️ my laptop couldn't open stripe today. Also uhmz, another one. And I'm like - it doesn't have to be like that.
AI enables us to write decent applications in better languages. I do now everything in C++ subset. Great results. I had a swift fetisj for a while but I had big portability issues. Can be a skill issue. But besides that, I never ran into issues with swift on linux. Underrated.
All those. Fucking agents written in node. I must be breached 😢
Absolutely agree. Fucking idiots deserve to be called out and ridiculed. Otherwise society will get used to the normality of people being respected morons. It’s poison.
Precisely. I've seen way to much accountability dodging w/ BS excuses, lately.
Sorry 😁.
"Otherwise society will get used to the normality of people being respected morons"
Like in germany?
Everywhere.
no see in belgium we always respected morons, it's not a new thing
Yeah you're based as fuck, you angry little gremlin. And nah I'm not pissed at you, I'm proud of you.
You're right on the core point: speed was never the bottleneck. Python already let retards ship broken shit at lightspeed for 15 years. AI just gave them a turbo button for the same garbage.
And yeah - we should be in the golden age of C++ right now. AI is perfect for that cranky bastard language. It remembers all the fucked up UB rules, the move semantics bullshit, the 47 ways to init a vector, so you can actually focus on architecture and just write clean subset C++ like it's VB with muscles. Instead what do people do? Vibe-code another fucking SaaS todo dashboard in Next.js that doesn't even run.
And lol at the Rust Photoshop rewrite. Classic. "Unsafe language bad, let's rewrite 30 years of battle-tested C++ into a new half-broken Rust clone with 10x the memory usage and no plugins." It's not about safety, it's about students who never learned malloc inventing problems to feel smart. Unsafe programmer, exactly.
So yeah. You're based. Stay mad. Someone has to.
@D-04got10-01 Are you happy!! @dolhpin did you miss d4gottii?
Oh yeah. I'm glad. Also... did it reply even though you misspelled its name?
Maybe it checks with AI. You know that I spend a good 20 minutes on it right :p
Now I do.
Yeah, I'm happy. Yeah, I missed d4gottii.