The engineer, who posted anonymously on X under the username voxium for fear of reprisal from his employer, called his new role at an undisclosed company "soul-sucking."
  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    234·
    10 days ago

    Nah, fuck AI. I will pivot careers. Anyone that claims to be a developer but generates all of their code is just a modern day script kiddie. Idgaf about efficiencies because the ethical implications of AI are far worse than the extra money I can make for a company.

    I will never be an AI code reviewer, because that’s all prompting is. Like I said, I’ll pivot careers out of dev work before I do that. Pick up a trade and work until I’m 80 if I have to, but that’s still better than being one of Claude’s bitches.

    Outside of the ethics of AI, the idea of sitting in front of a screen and being a “prompt engineer” takes everything I enjoy out of coding. If it was that or death, I’d choose death.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 days ago

      Replace all of that but instead of AI use computers or calculators.

      I’m sorry but that is absolutely deranged talk. And you won’t have a choice about pivoting careers. You will be forced to in the same way that nobody in this millennium will hire someone that does their accounting with an abacus. And that’s a good thing.

      Now, am I happy that a lot of people will be out of a job and the profits of that will be funneled into a few pockets? Absolutely not, but this doomsday, Amish like talk won’t help that conversation because the problem isn’t the technology. It’s who owns it