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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You keep using the word "you". You don't know what I can automate or what I have automated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

You can't automate these tasks without AI because anything that was capable of generalising to automating such a diverse set of tasks is AI.