My background is now exactly 20 years full time programming. I'm currently a senior developer on a good income.
And I am posting this to tell of the change.
The latest ai model, claude sonnet 4, plus visual studio code agent mode. Has made software developers obsolete.
It can code more in an hour than i can in a week. Trust me, i did not want this to be true. It aggrieved me to see years of study so casually outshone.
What does the future hold? Developers will migrate into "AI editors " roles or be sacked. Running multiple AI at once. Relegated to system architects and supervisors.
So seniors like me are in a good place. Intermediates and juniors are fucked.
My prediction is that we will witness many thousands of developers laid off. 1 senior will do the work of an entire team.
The market will get flooded with new saas built in weeks as opposed to years it took competitors.
I have begun my transistion from the dead industry to the new. I recommend all fellow upgoat devs start immediately to do the same.
Yes totally agree. It's also true for those in the movie production industry. It's also true for those in any kind of artistic creation industry. It's partly true for songwriters and jingle creators all those someone still has the own the copyright and that has not been worked out yet. I'll tell you something else appraisers of all type are going to see their jobs go by. I put the picture of a painting I bought at a thrift shop in the chat GPT and it gave me the history of that painting the possible artist the conditions of the canvas ask me how I wanted to Market it and all kinds of other things all in an instant better than any human art appraiser could ever have done and with a lot more technical and written backup.
And don't forget that robots are as a district as dexterious as humans now so even the manual labor jobs like plumbing and electrical work and things like that when hooked to the artificial intelligence you're not really going to even need those manual dexterous laborers to do that work after a very short period of time I suspect that will follow about 2 years after everybody loses their other jobs.
Oh and the Tesla robo taxis are now operating without anybody in the car in Austin Texas and it'll be very short period of time before they are in every city in America which not only means that Uber drivers are going to lose their job but it also means car salesman are going to lose their job because not nearly as many people are going to want to buy a car when it's just as cheap and convenient to order a Tesla to take you wherever you want to go.
The world's going to change in drastic ways and they're not going to be as many people needed on Earth and of course the nice thing would be for someone to figure out a way for all the people who don't have to work anymore to get an income from it all but we know that won't happen. What we know is the monopolist who will figure out a way to own it all quote unquote? We'll just say well all those extra people don't need to be there so they'll give us more injections and have more wars to get rid of a soul.
And that's my optimistic take on the whole situation.
Crackinjokes 4 points 1 day ago
Yes totally agree. It's also true for those in the movie production industry. It's also true for those in any kind of artistic creation industry. It's partly true for songwriters and jingle creators all those someone still has the own the copyright and that has not been worked out yet. I'll tell you something else appraisers of all type are going to see their jobs go by. I put the picture of a painting I bought at a thrift shop in the chat GPT and it gave me the history of that painting the possible artist the conditions of the canvas ask me how I wanted to Market it and all kinds of other things all in an instant better than any human art appraiser could ever have done and with a lot more technical and written backup.
And don't forget that robots are as a district as dexterious as humans now so even the manual labor jobs like plumbing and electrical work and things like that when hooked to the artificial intelligence you're not really going to even need those manual dexterous laborers to do that work after a very short period of time I suspect that will follow about 2 years after everybody loses their other jobs.
Oh and the Tesla robo taxis are now operating without anybody in the car in Austin Texas and it'll be very short period of time before they are in every city in America which not only means that Uber drivers are going to lose their job but it also means car salesman are going to lose their job because not nearly as many people are going to want to buy a car when it's just as cheap and convenient to order a Tesla to take you wherever you want to go.
The world's going to change in drastic ways and they're not going to be as many people needed on Earth and of course the nice thing would be for someone to figure out a way for all the people who don't have to work anymore to get an income from it all but we know that won't happen. What we know is the monopolist who will figure out a way to own it all quote unquote? We'll just say well all those extra people don't need to be there so they'll give us more injections and have more wars to get rid of a soul.
And that's my optimistic take on the whole situation.