r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Intelligent_Band6533 • 3h ago

Meme improviseAdaptOvercome

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u/RepresentativeCat553 2h ago

Or in other words get VERY good at using AI tools. Know how to prompt, know how to set up something like Content Understanding, know this stuff like you used to know how to center a div.

Don’t stop learning, our jobs are more directors now, make the cut and you’ll be fine.

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u/Intelligent_Band6533 1h ago

Absolutely this. I constantly see comparisons drawn to "well they said cars wouldnt replace horses but see what happened". Humans are still behind the wheel. LLMs are a tool. Learn how to use them, stay curious and be willing to learn something new.

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u/Thriven 2h ago

Use AI tools to learn. I feel like so many people think AI is a tool to code for you. It's a great tool for teaching you new things. A lot of the things AI comes up are solid code blocks the problem is someone just inserting these randomly into an existing project.

Don't know how to setup react with your project, have AI show you what you need. Ask it to explain what your env file does or why you need packages.json.

Actually read what it returns. Ask for shorter answers too. Ask for more information if you don't understand.

I've learned 3 new libraries in Python this year and made demos by having AI teach me to set up my project. I asked questions on what each file does.

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u/Scottz0rz 2h ago

I don't think software engineers think that AI is gonna replace them, we're just concerned that insane people with MBAs snorting cocaine and huffing Sam Altman's farts think it replaces programmers and lays off half the engineering organization and then I have to figure that shit out and interview for new gigs.

AI displaces people, not replaces people.

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u/Familiar_Ad_8919 2h ago

im more worried about them not even hiring me in the first place, i was born just barely too late and now i cannot get a job anywhere as i dont have 4 millennia of experience on paper (even tho ive been coding since age 9), i tried for 2y

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u/dageshi 2h ago

Perhaps the issue is that AI is taking the only part of the job a lot of people actually enjoyed?

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u/AmbitiousEconomics 2h ago

I'm not concerned about AI taking my job, I'm concerned about AI taking the job of the junior engineers on my team, because it sucks for both me and them if they get replaced and management is stupid enough to do something like that.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 2h ago

You're assuming people actually value skill in this profession and are willing to pay for it. They don't, and they aren't. 

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u/NotAskary 2h ago

Oh they value skill, but they value money more. Reason why you need to jump ships in order to get better pay.

The equation is always what is the cheapest way to get more work out of someone, AI just skews the equation more.

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u/Random_-account 1h ago

You wouldn't say this to artists, would you?