morph123

Is it just AI?

Seems to me we have said all that needed to be said when it comes to web sites. Cloud systems are fairly mature and unlikely to change that much. What else is there? Is software engineering a "solved" discipline?

In a world where nothing seems sure anymore what would you do? Would you bother getting an education? When knowledge becomes meaningless is there a reason to learn?

I got into doing programming professionally around 2014, which was way after memory and stuff was really much of a concern for 99% of all applications seemingly.

I always do look enviously at back when you had to figure out sort of bootstrappy ways to solve problems due to inherent limitations of the hardware instead of just sitting there gluing frameworks together like a loser.

Am I wrong or was programming just way cooler back then?

Something I have been seeing around these parts is this scenario were everyone with any degree of craftsmanship gets fired by clueless managers and they will drunkely prompt Jarvis to do the same job as these now fired employees.

I am just wondering how these organizations will live, what are they making? If what they are doing requires no knowledge and can be reproduced instantly then surely there is no business? Exception is obviously cooperations that have a lot of compute resource and acts as AI platforms (M$, Google, Amazon).

In my mind the future seems to be tiny super narrow highly competent teams that will operate on the very sharp end of some area of research that will have their own fine tuned AI. They will then guard that data as if it were the gold in fort knox.

I don't see any managers, PMs, CEOs, or anyone really making it out of this as the cost of labor and knowledge goes towards zero unless you are making something that has some physical manifestation, but then you are going to be absolutely swamped by competition bringing your prices down anyway.

Do you guys disagree with this. What do you think will happen?

Hello all.

I have had some motivational issues lately with regards to software development. In the past I used to really love programming.

Learning new frameworks, languages, paradigms. Building random things, cutting my teeth into all sorts of things from IoT to blockchain to ML. It always felt like an endless treasure trove of interesting problems to solve.

However after the whole generative AI thing I am finding it very hard to care. I have come to the conclusion that I like the craftsmanship portion of software dev more than the actual product I am making as odd as it sounds. Which generative AI obviously completely replaces. Is anyone in the same boat? How do you handle it?