I joined this industry a decade ago bright-eyed and excited to write code and implement solutions. Now everything is just AI. AI this, AI that. It's utterly soulless. I'm seriously considering going back to college and switching to a different field or something.
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OP, so go change your career. What is the big deal?
@hp Outnumbered by mediocre people who were raking it in.
Not enough voices were raised against this.
The chorus of voices went unheard and their pleas unheeded as their masters proved suddenly deaf, blind, and d-mb.
FTFY.
Problem is not the AI. It is indeed useful in some tasks.
When they forced me to use codex 2 months ago, I initially thought that SWE is dead. But after Billions of tokens spent (on O's dime btw), you realize that you won't have to worry about training the AI to do your job. Believe me, I tried. It's can't claw it's way out of a wet paper bag as they say. Maybe I am not "using it right" because I never got any training on how to "use it right". But then again I think I know how to use it more than a lot of ppl who rant on this forum.
The problem is our lack of leadership and vision in this company. Asking "Tell me how you are innovating with AI?" at every meeting is the wrong question. Paper pushers and yes men need to get a grip on reality.
After 2 months of using AI, I can honestly say that AI is great as an assistant and if used appropriately, can increase productivity. But AI is most certainly not a replacement. Getting stroked by the chat gpt browser doesn't make you an expert in codex and it's capabilities.
@OP
If there is an opportunity to reset then don't hesitate, take it and don't look back.
The industry was taken over by hype masters and, "we'll fix it in production" mentality. Not enough voices were raised against this. The creative types will find ways to do creative things - that's how artists are, by nature. The moment you apply logic and try to get real, you get disillusioned.
I'm seriously considering going back to college and switching to a different field...
If you go back for an MBA, you can return to join the ranks of the bean counters that don't cultivate any beans but dictate how others grow them.
You just don't know how to cook it. It's a new level of abstraction, we had a o lot of the introduced in the past. My parents worked through punching holes in punch cards as programming, to first assemblers, first high level programming languages (also considered "soulless"). It's just the next level to organize delivery flow and functionality.
Its better to train in a different domain, you are there until you "Train the Ai"