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nosmelc t1_j1x1a9y wrote

You're a SDE for a top tech company. You already have the best overall career.

I'm not sure why someone with your skills can't see that this AI stuff isn't going to have a negative effect on software development. It's like saying we weren't going to need programmers after going from assembly to high level languages. Like high level languages, AI tools are just going to make programmers more productive. They can't be replaced.

To be honest, you'd be crazy to give up being a SDE to ruin your knees or back doing a trade job.

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arven14 t1_j1x5cou wrote

As it currently exists, AI can can't create anything itself, it can only use what humans have created. Someone still has to write the code. AI will just be a tool, and developers aren't going anywhere.

This whole subreddit is full of people listening to the marketing people and ignoring the subject matter experts.

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GrayBox1313 t1_j1x715u wrote

We experimented with chat GP to rewrite our existing website and blog copy just to see. It gave very top level 101 level content that was bland and generic…overly technical. Basically terrible marketing Copy. It was a middle school book report where we needed brand positioning, voice, opinion etc. the AI can’t form opinions. It can tell you what our product does at s high level, but it can’t tell you why you need it, what pain points it solves and why it’s better than competitors. It can’t make the emotional argument or connect with a customer.

That’s very difficult to do.

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muttmunchies t1_j1x9djq wrote

Yeah chat GP is way overblown

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GrayBox1313 t1_j1xa69v wrote

I mean it’s fun. I’ve been trolling it. You ask it a Simple question and it gives you 5 paragraphs with bullet points as a Response. Not impressed. If it can do the same with 2 accurate sentences then I’d be impressed.

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muttmunchies t1_j1xfn29 wrote

Yeah i agree with your sentiment. But I have seen far too many redditors predicting the end of “fill in job” based on it.

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Relyst t1_j1x6o5s wrote

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out wtf OP is talking about lol.

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nosmelc t1_j1xc7oi wrote

He and some other software devs are wringing their hands about how ChatGPT can write some code for you.

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