Any Day Now

They are trying, just give them a bit more time and money and money and money and money.

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...
We do need a little more time, though. And money.
- Also, water. We’ll take all of that please, just pipe it right over to our spot in the desert. We’ll need some more money with that, of course.
and all the water+energy a small country needs.
Just one more datacenter, bro!

imagine AI replacing investors and CEOs

Random machines replacing random machines

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

I won't be surprised if AI ends up so expensive that they will cost more than actual developers. But as experience has shown, C-Suites prefer expensive and bloated tech than providing developers autonomy, good salaries and good career plans. They see us just as rebellious cogs in the machine.

Replacing everyone, especially on a global scale, is unlikely to be possible, since it is too expensive. But working in large companies and earning a lot of money may not work out as before, although this will depend on the country you are in and whether your government goes crazy or not.

I once heard an arrogant fuck go on super confidently for like 2 hours about how AI will never master natural speaking voices

So yeah, be blase about the biggest existential threat to your careers that has ever existed.

The real tragic part is that all of you laughing are going to be unemployable within a decade

Ooh, scaary. Wake me up when I get my unemployment certificate
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ
- The worst part of your undeserved arrogance is that I won't be there to see it bite you on your ass in a career ending way.
  Maybe take up farming?
Living up to the username I see
Some of us have applicable skills that can’t be replaced by a computer or a robot.
- Some of us will be replaced the old fashioned way. By a underpaid worker in a third word country that will ask for one tenth of the money for the same job.
We meet again mr angry autist, and I must say, you have got a bit of an r/unpopularopinion

God, I'm so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

Please exit the job market and let people who want to code make money
- Yeah. I love programming. Donate your job to nerds like me, but who need a job.
- Wait, people will pay me to code?
- I'm not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it's basically half a step above data entry. There's also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.
- This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn't coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲
Well, it won't come if everybody keeps pushing all the money in the world¹ into LLMs.
1 - Almost literally.