I woke up saying “no” into my pillow over and over again this morning about this problem.
There are two ways forward:
- Those of us that have been vibing revert to having LLMs generate code in small bits that our brains are fast enough to analyze and process, but LLMs are increasingly optimized to create code that is better and better, making it seem like this is a poor use of time, since “LLMs will just rewrite it in a few months.”
- We just have a hell of a time, in a bad way, some of us losing our jobs, because the code looks well-thought out but wasn’t, at ever increasing scale.
I have wavered over the past months in my attitude after having used it to much success in some cases and having gotten in over my head in beautiful crap in the more important ones.
I have (too) many years of experience, and have existed on a combination of good enough, clear enough code with consideration for the future along with a decent level of understanding, trust in people, and distrust in scenarios.
But this situation is flogging what remains of me. Developers are being mentored by something that cannot mentor and yet it does, and there is no need for me, not in a way that matters to them.
I believe that I’ll be fired, and when I am, I may take one or both of two roads:
1. I’ll continue to use LLMs on my own hoping that something will be created that feeds my family and pays the bills, eventually taking another job where I get fired again, because my mind isn’t what it was.
2. I do one of the few manual labor jobs that require no reasoning and are accepting of a slow and unreliable neurodivergent, if there are any; I don’t think there truly are.
I’ve been close to #2 before. I learned that almost everything that is dear to you relies on your functioning a certain way. I believe that I can depend on God to be there for me, but beyond that, I know that it’s on me. I’m responsible for what I can do.
LLMs and those AIs that come after them to do the same- they can’t fill the hole in others’ lives the way that you can, even if you’re a piece of shit like I am.
So, maybe LLMs write puzzling code as they puzzle out our inane desires and needs. Maybe we lose our jobs. Maybe we hobble along slowly creating decent code. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you be you and be your best, and support others.
There are two ways forward:
- Those of us that have been vibing revert to having LLMs generate code in small bits that our brains are fast enough to analyze and process, but LLMs are increasingly optimized to create code that is better and better, making it seem like this is a poor use of time, since “LLMs will just rewrite it in a few months.”
- We just have a hell of a time, in a bad way, some of us losing our jobs, because the code looks well-thought out but wasn’t, at ever increasing scale.
I have wavered over the past months in my attitude after having used it to much success in some cases and having gotten in over my head in beautiful crap in the more important ones.
I have (too) many years of experience, and have existed on a combination of good enough, clear enough code with consideration for the future along with a decent level of understanding, trust in people, and distrust in scenarios.
But this situation is flogging what remains of me. Developers are being mentored by something that cannot mentor and yet it does, and there is no need for me, not in a way that matters to them.
I believe that I’ll be fired, and when I am, I may take one or both of two roads:
1. I’ll continue to use LLMs on my own hoping that something will be created that feeds my family and pays the bills, eventually taking another job where I get fired again, because my mind isn’t what it was.
2. I do one of the few manual labor jobs that require no reasoning and are accepting of a slow and unreliable neurodivergent, if there are any; I don’t think there truly are.
I’ve been close to #2 before. I learned that almost everything that is dear to you relies on your functioning a certain way. I believe that I can depend on God to be there for me, but beyond that, I know that it’s on me. I’m responsible for what I can do.
LLMs and those AIs that come after them to do the same- they can’t fill the hole in others’ lives the way that you can, even if you’re a piece of shit like I am.
So, maybe LLMs write puzzling code as they puzzle out our inane desires and needs. Maybe we lose our jobs. Maybe we hobble along slowly creating decent code. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you be you and be your best, and support others.