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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

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[–] grue 154 points 9 months ago (4 children)

[–] sunbrrnslapper 46 points 9 months ago

The trough of disillusionment is my favorite.

[–] Radicaldog 18 points 9 months ago

Kind of nice to see NFTs breaking through the floor at the trough of disillusionment, never to return.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Betteridge's law of headlines: No.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Currently at the crossroads between trough of disillusionment and slope of enlightenment