Very grim views. People tend to underestimate human potential. There is a lot to explore and go beyond.

Recruiter

Can't wait for it to finish prod and engg up who have just one answer. Prioritise nahi kar payenge. Product discovery mein time lagega.

Brand marketing manager

It will never happen. What about security. Can llm take care of avoiding security issues. How will big businesses trust such open source software

Cloud architect

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/103cGe8qixC7ZzFsRu5Ww2VEW5YgH9zQaiaqbBsZ1lcc/mobilebasic

Software Test- QA

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

The end of software

The end of software- Grapevine

The Golden era of software engineering is gone

Growth Manager

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

Marc Andreessen famously declared, "Software is eating the World," and the truth in that statement has only grown with time. But here's the kicker: software itself is now under threat, because "Data is eating Software."
The evolution of technology has reached a fascinating moment.

Back in the day, individuals and organizations ran their own servers. Essentially, it was highly centralized and resource-intensive. Then came the era of Cloud Computing, which transformed computing into a utility, much like electricity. Cloud computing became widely accessible through AWS, Azure, and GCP and quickly commoditized server infrastructure. 

This shift enabled unparalleled scalability and flexibility, essentially democratizing access to computing power.

Now, a similar transformation is underway in AI, particularly with the foundational models developed by tech companies like Meta, OpenAI, Google, and others.

Here's where the ambitious vision for the future unfolds.
Just as Cloud Computing commoditized servers, data is poised to commoditize foundational AI models. 
These models are remarkably powerful, but they will too hit an upper limit on how great they can be. 

As Data accumulates at an exponential rate, it's becoming clear that Data, not these foundational models, will be the only sustainable moat in any AI application.

The true moat isn't the model itself; it's the data that refines and trains the model. Data will be the key to unlocking the full potential of AI, enabling personalized experiences, hyper-accurate predictions, and previously unimaginable insights.

So, while Marc Andreessen's proclamation about software remains timeless, the torch is passing to "Data is eating Software."

Marc Andreessen said, "Software is eating the World." Now, "Data is eating Software"

Product Manager

Came across this talk by CS50:- LLMs and The End of Programming

https://youtu.be/JhCl-GeT4jw?si=IDH4rVNP03SlXUMY

I've been in denial for some time on this issue and also internally optimistic that atleast the best of the best programmers will survive. But I now think my beliefs were foolish.

The hourglass maintainers did not survive the onset of clock technology. Similarly, programming will not survive the onset of powerful LLMs that are many times better than what we have today.

The end of programming?

Software Developer

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

What do Software Engineers do after the age of 40?

Software Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Just last week he was giving gyan on why BYJUs failed. Welcome BYJUs 2.0..

Another one bites the dust...

Sales

How the current SDE1 and SDE2 will get accomodated in IT industry in future. Hear me out. Currently lets say there is a team of 10 members in one of the IT company. Lets say 4 are sde1, 4 are sde2, 1 is sde3, 1 is teamLead. Now in future since higher positions are very less, how these 4 sde1 and 4 sde2 will get accomodated. In past years, for those who are currently at manager+ positions, when they were sde1/sde2, at that time number was low, so they got accomodated easily in growing IT demand. But now it seems there are already too many IT companies, seems very low probability that count of IT employees in total of India will even increase by 10-20% in next 5 years. Every year lakhs of IT engineers are also getting graduated. They can get that sde1 positions, but what about current sde1 and sde2 ? Do we need to find another career ?

Whoever comments, please explain in detail your thoughts. Need some discussions to decide future career path.

Future of Software Devs

https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548763134964000?t=fXlgiNRFy1vEnuK0sYb5_w&s=19

This looks far better than co-pilot, what do you guys say?

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It seems like software engineering job is the first one to go

"Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow. If you give your users something to play with early, their feedback will often lead you to a better eventual solution."

                     - Andy Hunt

"Great software "

That's not what am saying or pre assuming.

But the brain behind those supercomputers h100 and all, who is making LLMs train faster.

GPT 5.0 can do miracles and imagine 8.0 coupled with those 1nm GPUs.

I still believe that not 100% can be replaced but yes 60-70% roles will be redundant.

Top 10% will survive and thrive if ride the ai wave.

What do u think viners?

But this isn't the first time a tech exec has predicted the death of coding.

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI

Coding will be dead soon

Senior Consultant

Which professionals will disappear in next 10 years?

Prediction below, open to feedback and criticism:

As soon as GPT can learn programming languages through self reinforcement learning, it will become invincible and you will be able to create webapps at negligible cost by just giving it objectives. Coding as a career is likely downhill from here on.

Right now, we are in the DeepBlue version of GPT. It has learned from all the code available online just like DeepBlue had all human chess moves till then as its training data.

But AlphaZero learned on its own from ground up, and similarly led to AlphaGo later on.

Future GPT will learn all programming languages on its own from ground up, and deliver fully functional apps at neglible cost.

Future GPT is to Coding what AlphaZero is to Chess

Investor

Humans mind are not trained to understand exponential nature of any trend.... Currently people are mocking AI because current models are not that good. However people are unable to see the double exponential trend with which AI is improving without any slowing down of scaling laws...Ray Kurzweil was indeed right! 

Hence it would be more prudent to plan a career  path not by keeping capabilities of current models of AI in mind 
but by understanding how capable AI models would become in 2-3 years.

Gemini Pro 1.5 launched! New model just a week after launch of Gemini Ultra 1.0.Has 10M token context window, can perceive and answer questions about 10 hours of video, or 100 hours of audio, or 300K lines of code...

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

In my corporate experience, I have observed two kinds of leaders - 1) A hard task master, very high on IQ but more often than not low on EQ and 2) High on EQ, above avg on IQ. I as a manager/ leader fall under 2) and usually get work done without authority but I do experience at times, some peers and reportees taking advantage of my behaviour

 In my view, anecdotally I see type 1) leaders succeed more in corporates even if it comes at the cost of facing flak/hate from directs/indirects. One of my previous managers was unpopular for his toxicity but somehow I kind of built a decent bond with him. Once over drinks and dinner, he candidly told me, I'm not here in this organization for making friends and I'm here only to get results and he did deliver on results every year.

My question is, can type 2 leaders even climb up the ladder specially where cut throat competition exists. Sometimes I do feel I need to be more like type 1 leaders obviously not at the cost of toxicity - disrespect, shouting etc. 

What are your thoughts?

Task Master vs Empathetic leader

Program Manager

Looks like our world is about to end, GPT can write better code in any language then a human.

Can write spark, sql, react apps with unit testing and can cover more edge cases then humans can ever think of. 

openAI ftw

Time for SWEs to get disrupted

Business Development Manager

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I know Grapevine is full of young and ambitious people that either planning to get into Product or are already working as a PM. I don’t aim to discourage any of you. Moreover, if you need tips to break into Product I would be happy to help you.

I personally feel that knowing what you are doing is going to doom is better than normalizing it.

So I will convey my experience in simple words, how I hated every single day of it, why did I still stick around for 4 years, why product decisions are random political bullshit, why you should not let anything that happens get under your skin and affect your morale. Finally, few words for sociopathic Head of Products.

Lesson #1: Go through all stages of grief at once. Accept that product culture is broken and accept that it will not get better. Finally, you can’t fix it or improve it.

Lesson #2: Ratings are political bullshit. 
I can tell you the years I was rated worse I was probably working harder and better at my job. It just depends on the results you get in the last month before ratings and whether your DOP is vocal for you.

Lesson #3: Last piece of advice: do not let your Product years lower your self esteem or sense of self worth.

Also, some words for sociopathic Head of Products. F’ you.

You Must Get Out - My Experience of 4 Years In Product

Off late, the frontend engineering at Razorpay has become more of a data entry job. The design system (god knows how many years it will take to be completely ready) is restricting both the devs and the designers a LOT. Designers are literally fed up with being dictated to design things only in a particular way (limiting even animations, font-size, choice of italics v/s bold). There was even a long 2 month discussion to get font size for a component to support higher value, if you honestly want to know. 

The so called core team has been developing blade since God knows when. Agree that they've done a great work with tokens and other stuff, but it seems that by the time it's ready, it'll already be outdated design wise (suxs).

So, any other devs, all they have to do is follows.

1. Open Figma
2. See if the component in Figma is supported by Blade.
3. If yes, then see if our designer has by mistake used any font-size, color, margin or spacing not supported by Blade.
4. If yes, start a thread between everyone and give them a month to come to a resolution (Blade team always retaliates like it's a personal attack)
5. Eventually end up using your own component to save time and move fast.
6. Explain to your manager's manager's manager why you can't use Blade. (they've funded it for 2 years and no dev likes it, so they push it from top)


If your company has some interesting approach to this, please add in the comments.

Razorpay Frontend - More like a copy paste ninja job

Frontend Engineer

There has been a huge influx of posts dissing roles like Product, Marketing, HR etc. by Techies.

Every other post, or comment is made by them undermining the value of other depts and these cuties think business runs just by their sub-par code.

I understand that their delusion stems from the fact they get paid huge salaries by loss making companies. Which is bound to crash sooner or later. 

Rant over.

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