Comment by 2sk21
4 hours ago
I'm a retired AI researcher and I still enjoy programming. However, I don't use any however assistance as I still want the thrill of learning new things. Unfortunately, it appears that the only way for most developers to enjoy similar activities is to be retired with enough money
The amount developers saying how "now we can focus on the bigger picture" rather than the code are just delusional. The bigger picture has always been a bigger problem than writing the code. It's the part that engineering stands for in "software engineering". If you couldn't code something well or weren't involved in bigger picture decisions in the past, you're just gonna engineer big picture spaghetti.
This is exactly why half the conversation conversations about AI eventually become a critique of capitalism. AI isn’t for fun or joy, it’s explicitly for business use. For replacing people. For extracting more out of each worker. That’s all the major companies (OAI, Anthropic, etc) are offering. None of this is designed to give us any more freedom or time to pursue the things we are passionate about.
I feel like we’re circling back to that 2010s energy of “everyone can be an entrepreneur.” Now it’s “everyone can build software”