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0 pointscrinkly11mo ago0 comments

This is why you will have to pry vim and my own brain out of my cold dead hands.

It’s not just the IDE but the ML model you are selling yourself to. I see my colleagues atrophy before me. I see their tools melt in their hands. I am rapidly becoming the only person functionally capable of reason on my own. It’s very very weird.

When the model money dries up what’s going to happen?

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ryandvm11mo ago· 6 in thread

I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler.

I too am old enough to have seen a lot of unnecessary tech change cycles, and one thing I've noticed about this industry is no matter how foolish a trend was, we almost never unwind it.

haiku207711mo ago

> I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler.

All the people I know in the US with those skills make huge amounts of money- at least, the ones who haven't already retired rich.

rvz11mo ago

Yes. The ones who maintain high risk system software that allows all these machines to be able to train LLMs, compile the systems software or maintaining systems that ingest 2% of the worlds traffic are the ones who are making a lot of money out of this.

Not the ones maintaining frontend web apps or "vibe coding".

crinklyOP11mo ago

I get paid a fuck load of money to write C. Your point is?

As for trends, I've been around long enough to have seen this cycle a couple of times...

ryandvm11mo ago

> I get paid a fuck load of money to write C. Your point is?

My point is there aren't many of you, are there?

All things considered, keeping up with the industry trends is generally a more reliable career path.

crinklyOP11mo ago

Correct but we are never fungible. That’s the trick for a reliable career.

I’ve survived every single layoff season since 1995.

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bowsamic11mo ago

Remaining skilled while those around you atrophy is never a bad decision

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