🫠 too real
Remember that you are also collecting the responsibility of 10 and the pay of 1.
Shift + Tab + Fuck it.
Mixed feelings because obviously studying for a degree implies maths and sciences which does qualify you as an engineer, but imo “software engineer” isn’t a real thing. You’re either a computer engineer or a code monkey.
“Software engineer” will be a thing when it’s licensed by the state. Until then, we’re all just glorified cowboy-coders with no accountability.
(Speaking as computer programmer with an EIT in a different field.)
Yeah, I moved into software from electrical engineering. “Software engineers” are rarely doing engineering. Though, weirdly, the LLM-assisted coding methods seems to be leading to more of a focus on specs, design documents, and testing methodology, which almost makes it more like actual engineering.
I think the pace of development is such that it’s only a few years before humans are no longer in the chain of decision making. It was just 2017 when the infamous transformer paper came out.
A stupid person would believe this.
“AI” in its current iteration is a distillation of human knowledge. It lowers the barrier to access to long standing programming libraries that make people think it is some sort of smart. It seems intelligent because it’s imitating the things we have already created.
it’s imitating the things we have already created.
dont you think thats exactly what most people want? they dont want to create next Linux :(
Its more how unbelievably wasteful “AI” is to give dumbshits access to very basic tools. If and when it gets more efficient it will be viewed as we see search engines.
There was literally the dark version of Google to save energy on CRTs, and now it’s energy consumption is low and normalized.
LLMs are incapable of reasoning. They just guess the next token.
