The thing I hate the most about AI and it’s ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul—brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots. […]
There was once magic here. There was once madness.
Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were artists. They wrote code like jazz musicians—full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard—born to be great—is going to get told to “review this AI-generated patchset” for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin.
Unusually well-written piece on the threat AI poses to programming as an art form.
I’m more and more distancing myself with computers, it already was “use this library”, then use this app, now it seems just ask the “AI”.
I took up painting and chess, viable replacements I hope.
I want to do this, too, but computers is how I earn money.
Yeah same here, I’m working on a “work less, spend less” lifestyle but it’s quite hard for some resaon to convince people to hire you at less than at full time. Personally I think I’d do the same job, or better, in 4 days. 3 days would yield less total work but more per day.
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Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”
I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).
I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.
Go freelance.
Well careful though you might end up like me: work more earn less.
I’m trying to figure that one out, but any C/C++ job seems to be like both fulltime and let’s start for 6/9 months but implicitly you’re just gonna stzy here forever.
As I speak english I should maybe try the international market, any ideas where to look for jobs?
Well if you wanna go freelance you have to hustle a little bit. Looking for jobs will only find you jobs so you need to sell yourself as a service provider. I don’t do software myself so I wouldn’t know where to start.
It won’t be for long after Great Depression 2 hits :(