alt Hacker Newsfantastic comment! I disagree on two fronts:
- we are far removed from “early adopter” stages at this point
- “eventually all that will smooth out…” is assuming that this is eventually going to be some magic that just works - if this actually happens both early and late adopters will be unemployed.
it is not magic, it is unlikely to ever be magic. but from my personal perspective and many others I read - if you spend time (I am now just over 1,200 hours spent, I bill it so I track it :) ) it will pay dividends (and also will feel like magic ocassionally)
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Madmallard • today at 4:14 AM
If you spent 1200 hours not using it you would have matured in your craft 3x more and figured out far better ways of doing things.
What is this fantasy about people being unemployed? The layoffs we’ve seen don’t seem to be discriminating against or in favor of AI - they appear to be moves to shift capital from human workers to capex for new datacenters.
It doesn’t appear like anything of this sort is happening and the idea that good employer with a solid technical team would start firing people for not “knowing AI” instead of giving them a 2 week intro course seems unrealistic to me.
The real nuts and bolts are still software engineering. Or is that going to change too?