Are we still pretending that we're not cooked?

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Summary

The author argues that AI models like Fable are becoming so capable that they will render most developers obsolete, expressing concern about job loss but accepting it as inevitable.

Still confused about seeing people here pretending that "their" AI is producing slop non-stop and take that as an argument that they will stay relevant. Doesn't matter if it takes two or three additional years for this to happen, but if we can run a model like Fable or anything similar at a reasonable price, I honestly don't see what we're still going to need 90%+ of developers for. And no, I'm not talking about one-shotting apps. I'm talking about using this thing in an actual professional work environment, and it's an incomparable beast. I can throw almost any problem at it and it comes back with a proper solution. This goes far beyond just coding already. The number of steps it can take autonomously and the amount of useful work it produces exceeds anything I've ever seen from a developer by at least an order of magnitude. Yeah, yeah, it still needs some hand-holding here and there. But in my experience, that usually happens because it's missing context. And even that problem gets smaller the more a companys processes, workflows and institutional knowledge are digitized, documented and made accessible to agents, which AI is obviously going to take care off as well. Other industries will follow of course, but IT is going to shrink to a very small human core first. Not saying that I like it because it's probably going to cost me my job as well, but what am I supposed to do? We're cooked either way.
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