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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

But many of us automated those tasks out of our workflows decades ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unless you're never doing new development you can't automate them. The kinds of tasks I've used this for:

    • Making an HTML visualisation of some complex function inputs. One-off project. I could totally do this but it would take me way longer.
    • Formatting a complex and very long SystemVerilog file. There aren't any existing SystemVerilog formatters (and certainly none that would handle the insane level of ifdefs in this file).
    • Writing a script to delete all Git branches at a particular commit. I only used this once.
    • Writing an Asciidoctor custom annotation. I don't know Ruby so...

    You can't automate any of those.

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