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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If they did we would have much bigger fish to fry because that’s the type of thing that could very well lead to the singularity.

Bingo

I won't say it won't happen soon. And it seems fairly likely to happen at some point. But at that point, so much of the world will have changed because of the other impacts of having AI, as it was developing to be able to automate thousands of things that are easier than programming, that "will I still have my programming job" may well not be the most pressing issue.

For the short term, the primary concern is programmers who can work much faster with AI replacing those that can't. SOCIAL DARWINISM FIGHT LET'S GO

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