Ok let’s give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I’m a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write “good” code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don’t sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I’m not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I’m sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive…

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

  • anarchost@lemm.ee
    62·
    10 months ago

    It’s a misnomer, but if you want to pass off LLMs as “artificial intelligence” on technicality of definition, you’d also have to include

    advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix)

    etc.

    • Lmaydev
      31·
      10 months ago

      Indeed you do.

      Neural networks are some of the original AIs.

    • BitSound@lemmy.world
      53·
      10 months ago

      Yes those are also examples of AI, see relevant Wikipedia article:

      AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet

      We need better terms to specify exactly what we mean, e.g. a numeric scale of intelligence or maybe even something more complex like a radar chart.