Only if you confine “ai” to mean an LLM.

Automation has replaced so many jobs already. More to come. Head in the sand won’t help anyone.

Fake review writers are hopefully retraining for in-person scams.

1. Programmers invent AI
2. Executives use AI to replace programmers
3. Executives rehire programmers for thousands of dollars an hour to fix AI mistakes.

So this. Just because it can’t do the job doesn’t mean they won’t actually replace you with it.

And then you get hired back 6 months later for more pay after they realize how badly they fucked up.

This is exactly what rips at me, being a low-level artist right now. I know Ai will only be able to imitate, and it lacks a “human quality.” I don’t think it can “replace artists.”

…But bean-counters and executives, who have no grasp of art, marketing to people who also don’t understand art, can say it’s “good enough” and they can replace artists. And society seems to sway with “The Market”, which serves the desires of the wealthy.

I point to how graphic design departments have been replaced by interns with a Canva subscription.

I’m not going to give up art or coding, of course. I’m stubborn and driven by passion and now sheer spite. But it’s a constant, daily struggle, getting bombarded with propaganda and shit-takes that the disciplines you’ve been training your whole life to do “won’t be viable jobs.”

And yet the work that “isn’t going anywhere” is either back-breaking in adverse conditions (hey, power to people that dig that lol) and/or can’t afford you a one-bedroom.

Yep. Well said. They don’t need to create a better product. They need to create a new product that marketing can sell.

Bugs are for the users to test.

Meanwhile, idiot leadership jobs are the best suited to be taken over by AI.

At the end of the day, they still want their shit to work. It does, however, make things very uncomfortable in the mean time.

even devs who’ve worked for 10+ years make dumb mistakes every so, so often.

there, I fixed it for you

I’m a senior developer and I sometimes even look back thinking “how the fuck did I make that mistake yesterday”. I know I’m blind to my own mistakes, so I know testers may have some really valid feedback when I think I did everything right :)

They’re about 2% better at being a telephone IVR than the older ones, probably at 6x the power cost.

False. Porn is sexy, and I can’t possibly be aroused by an image of a woman spreading her cheeks when her fingers are attached to her arse with a continuous piece of flesh, giving her skin the same topography as a teapot.

Everyone’s convinced their thing is special, but everyone else’s is a done deal.

I’m sad it makes me sound like such a pie-in-the-sky hippie when I say I think everyone’s contributions are not just special, but essential, and that’s why this whole mentality pisses me off so much, especially in the indie space.

• Artists are like “Finally, I can have Ai do my code! But good art takes a special touch.”
• Coders are like “Finally, I can have Ai do my art! But good code takes a special touch.”
• “Idea Guys”, who never learned anything but want to make a game because they like playing them, are leading the charge. They’re so excited to put everyone who makes those games out of a job because they think they’ll finally get to “achieve their dreams” with freaking prompts.

But for the people who do the work, why the heck are skilled artisans so ready to sell out their comrades? This “highly competitive” nonsense, and one-great-glorious-man myth has simply turned us on each other, when the people with pointless bullshit jobs are somehow still employed, simply serving to harass and bother the people getting things done.

Meanwhile the only task where current AI seems truly competitive is porn.

Well it sure has a heckuva data set from every possible angle and lighting setup, doesn’t it? 😬 Lol

I’d suggest that if you think AI porn is anywhere near the real thing, that’s probably because you think porn is already slop in the same way that these AI bros think of code or creative writing or whatever other information-based thing you already know AI can’t do well.

Porn isn’t slop, people aren’t just interestingly-shaped slabs of meat. Sex is fundamentally about interpersonal connection. It might be one of the things that LLMs and robots are the worst at.

AI is really good at creating images of Jesus that boomers say “amen” to.

As someone trying to get a job in IT, I’m just going to ignore this comment :)

Not sure how you manage to draw conclusions by comparing two different fields.

Basically, the industry is not investing in new blood.

Yeah I think it makes sense out of an economic motivation. Often the code-quality of a junior is worse than that of an AI, and a senior has to review either, so they could just directly prompt the junior task into the AI.

The experience and skill to quickly grasp code and intention (and having a good initial idea where it should be going architecturally) is what is asked, which is obviously something that seniors are good at.

It’s kinda sad that our profession/art is slowly dying out because juniors are slowly replaced by AI.

six figures for a junior programmer, no less

As long as they keep the rainbow 🌈 socks on, I’ll eat them raw.

AI is great for learning a language, partly because it’s the right combination of useful and stupid.

It’s familiar with the language in a way that would take some serious time to attain, but it also hallucinates things that don’t exist and its solution to debugging something often ends up being literally just changing variable names or doing the same wrong things in different ways. But seeing what works and what doesn’t and catching it when it’s spiraling is a pretty good learning experience. You can get a project rolling while you’re learning how to implement what you want to do without spending weeks or months wondering how. It’s great for filling gaps and giving enough context to start understanding how a language works by sheer immersion, especially if the application of that language comes robust debugging built in.

I’ve been using it to help me learn and implement GDscript while I’m working on my game and it’s been incredibly helpful. Stuff that would have taken weeks of wading through YouTube tutorials and banging my head against complex concepts and math that I just don’t have I can instead work my way through in days or even hours.

Gradually I’m getting more and more familiar with how the language works by doing the thing, and when it screws up and doesn’t know what it’s talking about I can see that in Godot’s debugging and in the actual execution of the code in-game. For a solo indie dev who’s doing all the art, writing, and music myself, having a tool to help me move my codebase forward while I learn has been pretty great. It also means that I can put systems in place that are relevant to the project so my modding partner who doesn’t know GDScript yet has something relevant to look at and learn from by looking through the project’s git.

But if I knew nothing about programming? If I wasn’t learning enough to fix its mistakes and sometimes abandon it entirely to find solutions to things it can’t figure out? I’d be making no progress or completely changing the scope of the game to make it a cookie cutter copy of the tutorials the AI is trained on.

Vibe coding is complete nonsense. You still need a competent designer who’s at least in the process of learning the context of the language they’re working with or your output is going to be complete garbage. And if you’re working in a medium that doesn’t have robust built-in debugging? Good luck even identifying what it’s doing wrong if you’re not familiar with the language yourself. Hell, good luck getting it to make anything complex if you have multiple systems to consider and can’t bridge the gaps yourself.

Corpo idiots going all in on “vibe coding” are literally just going to do indies a favor by churning out unworkable garbage that anyone who puts the effort in will be able to easily shine in comparison to.

It’s a good teacher, though, and a decent assistant.

Probably just what their hiring algorithm spat out, or a market average, or something.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2597/