alt Hacker NewsFor whatever a single anecdote is worth, there do still seem to be at least some jobs that require a decent amount hand-coding still. I just landed a new role and when I asked about AI usage policies, etc. they told me you can use whatever you want but don't count on it working well as the AIs are not that good at writing the code we work on. They suggested using it more as a explainer and for targeted tasks vs. agentic development.
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tdrz • today at 8:54 PM
Are there any other job openings there?
zabriel_goss • today at 8:55 PM
What domain is the work in?
I am in a super oldschool small dev shop completely sealed off from the world. We are starting to experiment with Git now, on the side to stay up to date.
I think someone here occasionally opens ChatGPT web, free version of course, and copy-pastes some fragments. They claim it is still very, very far off from being useful. At first I was feeling sorry, but now I feel awesome.
It’s amazing. It’s like living in a museum and the pay is great too. I always wanted to leave tbh but now I’m heavily reconsidering riding this one out..