I always say humans are not smart enough. First they came for the communists... You know the rest but how many of you would pick up a rifle and stand against evil?
Well, first they came for the manual workers and many on HN were happy to help. Now they and their autocompletes came for open source devs, taking our work without consent, credit or respecting the licenses and almost nobody stands up against it. They expect me to pay for me own stolen code and most devs are OK with it because it's not their stolen code and they can get their job slightly faster.
So how long before they come for you? Because by then you will be economically irrelevant and unable to do anything about it.
remote work was foolish for disassociating the value of swes to just code. llms are here to finish off the job. the profession will still exist of course
I'm sure I'm supposed to sympathize with the plight of the poor Amazon coder, but since everyone in the valley are encouraged to systematically shit on everyone they believe is beneath them.... I can't.
...and don't tell me they don't. I've been to way too many corporate parties and seen how they act when they think no one is watching.
> I'm sure I'm supposed to sympathize with the plight of the poor Amazon coder, but since everyone in the valley are encouraged to systematically shit on everyone they believe is beneath them.... I can't.
That's one of the mechanisms capital uses to keep the workers under control: divide and conquer. AI hurts workers, and benefits the shareholders, but some workers will stay on the sidelines due to schadenfreude towards arrogant software engineers.
But I've said it before: for people who see themselves as soooo smart, software engineers have been pretty fucking dumb. They fooled themselves into thinking their high salaries and 401ks to meant they were like their bosses and not other workers, so behaved like temporarily embarrassed billionaires: embracing libertarianism, regurgitating anti-union propaganda from their bosses.
If software engineers were actually smart, we'd have unionized decades ago, when we had more power.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 29.0 ms ] threadI always say humans are not smart enough. First they came for the communists... You know the rest but how many of you would pick up a rifle and stand against evil?
Well, first they came for the manual workers and many on HN were happy to help. Now they and their autocompletes came for open source devs, taking our work without consent, credit or respecting the licenses and almost nobody stands up against it. They expect me to pay for me own stolen code and most devs are OK with it because it's not their stolen code and they can get their job slightly faster.
So how long before they come for you? Because by then you will be economically irrelevant and unable to do anything about it.
A code reviewer is a reverse-centaur, a servant to the machine.
Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI.""
...and don't tell me they don't. I've been to way too many corporate parties and seen how they act when they think no one is watching.
That's one of the mechanisms capital uses to keep the workers under control: divide and conquer. AI hurts workers, and benefits the shareholders, but some workers will stay on the sidelines due to schadenfreude towards arrogant software engineers.
But I've said it before: for people who see themselves as soooo smart, software engineers have been pretty fucking dumb. They fooled themselves into thinking their high salaries and 401ks to meant they were like their bosses and not other workers, so behaved like temporarily embarrassed billionaires: embracing libertarianism, regurgitating anti-union propaganda from their bosses.
If software engineers were actually smart, we'd have unionized decades ago, when we had more power.