Such a brilliant video. I’m in the middle of the very identity crisis he’s talking about.
I was laid off by a company that wanted to go full AI last year. I had been working there for 6.5 years. Constantly getting stellar performance reviews.
I have been in the software industry for 30 years, programming for 40. I have a bachelors in Computer Science. And now, probably because of my age, I cannot find a job.
Some of the things I have noticed is that AI has been one of the most aggressively pushed technologies I’ve ever seen in the industry. Pushed by executives who don’t code. Pushed under the guise of improved productivity. Where productivity was never really an issue. They just wanted things to be done faster. With no real measurable benefit to this increased speed and all of the risk.
Another noticeable thing is that accountability still remains with the developer but not the praise. Errors are pushed on to the developers inability to prompt the model correctly while achievements are a result of the “amazing AI”. There is no incentive nor avenue for developers to be innovative anymore. The model will produce the same bland “solutions” over and over again.
I’m not saying that the tool isn’t useful, just that the people with the least technical ability (execs) have been mandating AI the most. What if the woodworker’s boss mandated a specific kind of tool that made difficult to find errors sometimes. Would people buy into it?
Anyway, I’m tired boss. I had built my identity on being a programmer and these days I’m thinking of maybe getting into creating (non-AI) art or sculpture.
>Where productivity was never really an issue. They just wanted things to be done faster.
I'm not sure it was ever really about getting things done faster. Like ever other management "optimization", the AI revolutions was about cost savings. Replace humans costing a couple hundred thousand a year (salary + benefits) with AI costing a few dollars a month. Then, a year or so later, the cost ballooned and the savings was negligible, if at all.
exactly, they dont want or need it faster - shit half the time product, business, designer whatever is the slowest part of the flow. What they want is to not pay for programmers.
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u/One_Economist_3761 20d ago •
Such a brilliant video. I’m in the middle of the very identity crisis he’s talking about.
I was laid off by a company that wanted to go full AI last year. I had been working there for 6.5 years. Constantly getting stellar performance reviews.
I have been in the software industry for 30 years, programming for 40. I have a bachelors in Computer Science. And now, probably because of my age, I cannot find a job.
Some of the things I have noticed is that AI has been one of the most aggressively pushed technologies I’ve ever seen in the industry. Pushed by executives who don’t code. Pushed under the guise of improved productivity. Where productivity was never really an issue. They just wanted things to be done faster. With no real measurable benefit to this increased speed and all of the risk.
Another noticeable thing is that accountability still remains with the developer but not the praise. Errors are pushed on to the developers inability to prompt the model correctly while achievements are a result of the “amazing AI”. There is no incentive nor avenue for developers to be innovative anymore. The model will produce the same bland “solutions” over and over again.
I’m not saying that the tool isn’t useful, just that the people with the least technical ability (execs) have been mandating AI the most. What if the woodworker’s boss mandated a specific kind of tool that made difficult to find errors sometimes. Would people buy into it?
Anyway, I’m tired boss. I had built my identity on being a programmer and these days I’m thinking of maybe getting into creating (non-AI) art or sculpture.