I think a lot of people who write about AI haven't been regular old, run-of-the-mill software devs in a while.
For small companies, or large companies broken into small teams, I'm not really sure why there's this assumption that AI will "take care of all the trivial code." Someone has to transmute the project manager's wishes into working code, and it's never going to be the product manager. From that point of view, whether I'm cobbling the code together from Stack Overflow snippets or using AI to generate it, my job hasn't changed all that much.
I neither fear the reaper nor do I dismiss the impact GPTs have had on the industry. I just don't think small development teams' mandates have changed that much, apart from a somewhat faster pace of development (work expands to fill the vacuum, after all).
Spend the time it takes for you to hunt and kill meaningful contract work looking for a better paying F/T job, then use your nights for hobbies, cooking, exercise and socialization like (lowercase g)od intended.
Also have tried it and not sticking with it. I come to HN because there’s value in the unexpected; with Artifact it just feeds me more of what I would read myself online anyways. after using for about a week pretty regularly, my feed was mostly populated by about five sources, one of which (Newsweek, horrible rag) I would never read, the others mostly concerned with the topic of gaming which is probably about 20th on my list of favourite things to read about. This product is DOA, and I was kind of excited about it.
Also, wasn’t there supposed to be a social component? Where’d that end up?
This is a pretty niche case but my band sometimes puts on livestreams, for which I use an Atem Blackmagick and OBS with a plugin that automatically changes the camera input at random intervals. I use an old CC in one of the hdmi channels that has some random visuals streaming to it from the same laptop that we run the stream off of, which I bleed 50% with one of the other camera inputs for a fun little psychedelic effect. I’m sure there are other ways to achieve this without hardware, but it works for me/us and gives the old thing something to do. ::shrug::
For small companies, or large companies broken into small teams, I'm not really sure why there's this assumption that AI will "take care of all the trivial code." Someone has to transmute the project manager's wishes into working code, and it's never going to be the product manager. From that point of view, whether I'm cobbling the code together from Stack Overflow snippets or using AI to generate it, my job hasn't changed all that much.
I neither fear the reaper nor do I dismiss the impact GPTs have had on the industry. I just don't think small development teams' mandates have changed that much, apart from a somewhat faster pace of development (work expands to fill the vacuum, after all).