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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AI is the correct term. It's the name of the field of study and anything that mimics intelligence is an AI.

Neural networks are a perfect example of an AI. What you actually code is very simple. A bunch of nodes that pass numbers forward through the system applying weights to the values. Their capabilities once trained far outstretch the simple code they run and seem intelligent.

What you are referring to is general AI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Indeed you do.

Neural networks are some of the original AIs.