I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them
by thegrim33
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- Wow, a guy who works at an AI company posting a blog post hyping AI to the moon.
Wow, the top comment on HN (currently) is from a user who works at company which sells AI tooling, talking about how amazing AI is going to get.
Wow.
- "Judgement" is perfect for now. I use CC and Codex every day, and I agree they spit out something that will work on the first run, but they go wild about some system design choices. For now, I agree with you that judgement and system design/architecture is the distinction.
What I worry about and think will happen is we will see emerging platform that does full systems, and replit is a good example of that. I don't think these tools are enterprise ready yet (I might be wrong), as enterprise is always about integration with other systems including legacy ones and data silos.
I think we will be like COBOL developers now; we will maintain pre-AI systems until we retire.
- > AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose.
I would add: "Yet."
Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as well, likely within a shorter period of time than we'd all expect.
- 20 years left if health plays along, and I feel the same pain as the author.
by deafpolygon
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- well, the author has no issues using an LLM to write the article.
- And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
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