Almost a decade ago I jumped ship as a programmer for several reasons, and since '18 I am definitely not coding at all. Friends and family have wondered much at my path and letting go of what has become the one promised career for ever larger parts of the population, and making my inroads into the arts and literature, finally settling a bit with the profession of writing on many capacities. Now I look back more gadly than before, as I hadn't really imagined that coders would be on the very frontline of impacted jobs. I think the 10x will become a sad concrete thing, with salaries crunching and a team lead expected to take up the work of teams being fired, resorting to AI minions. It's a crazy tables have turned situation.
So that really I'm writing with and about AI[0] to get the best of my technical and literary backgrounds, and to reach good audiences.
Meanwhile writing is safer because contrary to code, a personality and a personal life will ever be valued in flesh and blood writers. And how could an AI, ever write love poems with a soul if it has not opportunities for falling desperately in love, suffering, changing wholesale because of an experience like that? It could emulate it. But readers want to read real sufferers, mortals who get old and lose their looks and so forth, not little gods of sillicon.
I think replacing a SWE with AI means we have reached AGI levels.
However, GPT 4, which is amazing but not able to do what a SWE does, is already making concept artists, voice actors and content marketers obsolete. The arts are far more susceptible to this technology.
Anyone who thinks SWE is generating Python snippets doesn't really understand the role.
I think the 10x will become a sad concrete things, with salaries crunching and a team lead expected to take up the work of teams being fired, resorting to AI minions. It's a crazy tables have turned situation.
I don't really see that it's sad. Imagine truly democratized programming. Not like how the refrigerator did the ice man, but in how Youtube and smartphone cameras did video production. A rising tide that lifts all boats and can give absolutely anyone a taste of what they could achieve with a little effort.
Point taken, though I have long thought the ads were officially the hiring and also the Launch HNs that are now popping left and right from YC W23, and every single one naturally abou ML.
So that really I'm writing with and about AI[0] to get the best of my technical and literary backgrounds, and to reach good audiences.
Meanwhile writing is safer because contrary to code, a personality and a personal life will ever be valued in flesh and blood writers. And how could an AI, ever write love poems with a soul if it has not opportunities for falling desperately in love, suffering, changing wholesale because of an experience like that? It could emulate it. But readers want to read real sufferers, mortals who get old and lose their looks and so forth, not little gods of sillicon.
[0]: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/the-generative-revie...