alt Hacker NewsWhile I'm on the fence about LLMs there's something funny about seeing an industry of technologists tear their own hair out about how technology is destroying their jobs. We're the industry of "we'll automate your job away". Why are we so indignant when we do it to ourselves...
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How do you read this article and hear indigence? It’s clearly someone grieving something personal about their own relationship with the technology.
I never thought or felt myself as or my work as someone or something that "will automate your job away".
I'm very confident in saying the majority of developers didn't get into it saying "we'll automate your job away"
"We" might be such an industry, but I'm not. My focus has always been on creating new capabilities, particularly for specialists in whatever field. I want to make individuals more powerful, not turn them into surplus.
Per the "About Me" picture, this particular technologist does not have any hair to tear out.
For me it's because the same tech is doing it to everyone else in a more effective way (i.e. artists especially). I'm an "art enjoyer" since I was a child and to see it decimated by people who I once looked up to is heartbreaking. Also, if it only affected software, I would've been happy to switch to a more artistic career, but welp there goes that plan.
This article isn't really about losing a job. Coding is a passion for some of us. It's similar to artists and diffusion, the only difference being that many people can appreciate human art - but who (outside of us) cares that a human wrote the code?