Comment by r_lee
4 hours ago
> It's not like your gradual transition from sequencing with gels to using supercomputers over the long course of a career.
this. I don't understand why people here are pretending like its not a big deal.
4 hours ago
> It's not like your gradual transition from sequencing with gels to using supercomputers over the long course of a career.
this. I don't understand why people here are pretending like its not a big deal.
But aren't we all going through this? I'm going through it, sadly I'm lacking the plasticity of a young mind!
I know I'm being privileged, but not by much, I'm self employed and the world is changing like crazy and it scares me as well, how will I gather my income in a year (luckily I do live in a "socialist" country, but not so socialist for entrepreneurs)? No idea, but I set up Open Claw and Claude Code and it's opening my eyes to different ways of doing things. The primitives to do this are the same as always (Linux). Sure, if you're doing medicine you won't know how to do this, but you never did, you relied on people like me/us.
Well, perhaps the only difference between me and the younglings is that over time I've come to trust my intellect. I'll deal with it, as they say.
Btw, if you're really suggesting that "this time it's different" (as in AI is different from electricity, the internet, ubiquitous computing), then you agree with the elites: you're going to have to deal with it, the genie is out of the box and it happened faster than ever.
I'll add again, they the younglings have many reason to boo the tech elites, and I'd join them if I were there, I'm just trying to understand what is exactly going on in the minds of our precious new generation, this is important (Hey, I watched Altered Carbon!).
I think it's simply the fact that there hasn't even been an opportunity for the youth to start, it's just misery right from the start. there's no "it'll get better" in that frame of mind
and I'm in a similar situation, although I'm younger
and I do think in a way this time is different, because AI by nature is very "generic", its not just one domain, rather everything is affected
plus there is a kind of mindset that the youth is entitled and that thank God we don't have to hire them anymore etc etc. it doesn't help.
and even though I believe things will get better, the question is "when" and if there will be a new "lost generation" or whatever.
maybe that makes sense? on one hand I'm able to do way more, but I also know what that means at least in the short term. I don't know where the demand will be to meet this new exponential supply.