Fuck coding
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I read somewhere that Comp Sci majors are decreasing in schools and those that graduate are having problems getting hired.
@taiwan_girl said in Fuck coding:
I read somewhere that Comp Sci majors are decreasing in schools and those that graduate are having problems getting hired.
Maybe, I could see that. AI does make me a bit concerned about careers for my kids in 15-20 years. For coding, I know 20 years ago I would build website from scratch, literally a blank page starting with "<html...", and 15 years ago it was using content management systems (CMS), then 10 to 5 years ago it was all about converting to the cloud and SaaS and PaaS where solutions are provided and you just configure them, or write scripts (e.g., Python), or build CICD/DevOps pipelines to automate a bunch of stuff, and just this week I was setting up a new GitHub org for a few code repositories and I "activated" the various AI code writing tools that do 95% of the work for you. It's remarkable.
Indeed, though... "coding" will be obsolete soon enough, mostly. SAD. So far I got lucky as I switched from software development in 2020 over to cybersecurity and so far that has been helped by AI and not threatened by it yet. AI is just another tool (per se) we have in our suite of security tools used to stop t3h hax0rs.
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Any job that involves interacting with objects rather than people is on the chopping block. Maybe not in our lifetimes. The jobs that involve talking to people are also going to get hit with substantial splash damage, as most of the talking jobs involve talking about ways to direct and organize humans.
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@89th said in Fuck coding:
Link to videoI just saw some window washers, their jobs are safe for now.
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This isn't really going to succeed until they rename it the "hyperintelligence" group.
Incidentally, I Googled 'AI models'. Holy shit, some of them are really lifelike.
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About "50% from China" ... even among those labeled "American," many of them have Chinese-sounding names.
A little surprised that there aren't more Indians (of South-Asian descent).Not sure what "L8+ Level" means, maybe a reference to Meta's pay scale.
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Some companies throw around the title "Engineer" rather casually (e.g., "Software Engineer"). Some other companies are more careful with the title, reserving the "Engineer" title only for those who are state-licensed "Professional Engineers" (PE), and use some other title like "Member of the Technical Staff" (MTS) for those who are not state-licensed PE.
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I’ve never seen the latter except in civil engineering. State licensing was seen as totally unnecessary when I graduated BSEE in 1990.
I remember my grandfather (BSME from MIT class of ‘28) implored my mother to make me take the exam. He didn’t realize how irrelevant it was in the EE space.
