There’s Roomba- the robot vacuum cleaner what I know. Aibo - the robot dog companion in our daily tasks.  
  
 But one thing is clear.  We are focusing on improving AI in areas we may not want it. Whether it is for efficiency or cost-saving,  we should think carefully about where it is needed, and wanted.

Product Manager

So, we should gate keep the future of humanity so that you can have a 9-5 job? The hubris of the median man knows no bounds, clearly.

Software Developer

Corporate profits >>>>> human development

Software Engineer

Who’s this guy and why should we listen to him?

Why isn't AI cooking dinner for me when I get back from office  Or doing my weekend laundry or clean the damn house  Why is that hell bent in getting me off job market?

Why isn't AI cooking dinner for me when I get back from office 
Or doing my weekend laundry or clean the damn house

Why is that hell bent in getting me off job market?

Why are we building tech to endanger humanity?

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Why are we building tech to endanger humanity?- Grapevine

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Here's my rationale on all of it.

There’s a lot of buzz about “AI developers” in the tech world. Headlines shout that the days of human coders are numbered—a tantalizing, but dubious claim. 

Startups like Magic.dev are raising hefty sums to create "superhuman software engineers." Their mission? To outperform and possibly replace human coders. Then there's Cognition Labs' "Devin," which raised $21M and claims to be an AI capable of doing real software engineering. These companies are cashing in on fears and ambitions.

One narrative is that tools like Devin will soon replace entry-level developers. 

Devin’s current track record shows it solves about 13.86% of issues on GitHub unassisted. While that’s leagues better than previous models, remember, a competent junior developer would do much more.

We shouldn’t be fooled by flashy headlines or orchestrated media frenzies. Devin is, for now, an advanced coding assistant, not a replacement for the nuanced, context-rich work that seasoned engineers provide.

Consider the landscape. Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot has already dominated the coding assistant niche for over two years, with 1.3 million paying subscribers. Pricing at $20/month makes it a tough act to follow, especially given the computational costs tied to maintaining high-performance AI models. 

Companies like Sourcegraph and Replit are also deeply embedded with their respective AI tools, Cody and Replit AI. The remaining space is limited, pushing new startups to make audacious claims to carve out a territory.

The startup game is about getting noticed. Cognition AI achieved near viral attention, taking a page from ChatGPT’s playbook. Their video showcases are strategic, designed to create buzz. But strong media presence doesn’t guarantee a product that delivers on lofty promises.

The seductive idea that advances in software will eliminate the need for human engineers isn't new.

In 1959, COBOL aimed to empower business people to write their own programs. Instead of reducing the need for developers, it created a demand for COBOL specialists. The cycle repeats. Each new tool or language claims to reduce the need for knowledge workers, but instead, it shifts the nature of the work, often requiring even more specialized skills.

AI, especially large language models, remains highly effective within certain constraints. They can automate routine tasks and provide coding assistance, but they are fundamentally "probability machines," making educated guesses. Hallucinations, errors, and a lack of deep contextual understanding limit their utility.

Five years from now, developer tools will undoubtedly be more powerful. But the idea that AI will fully replace human engineers is a perpetual myth. Instead, AI will continue to serve as an extension of human capability—better, smarter tools, but not standalone replacements.

In our era, it’s crucial to discern between hype and reality. Don’t get blinded by flashy demos and bold claims. Look for sustainable, incremental improvements that make you a more efficient, capable engineer.

The inspiration for this post is...
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ai-developer-marketing-stunt/

Is the “AI Developer” a Genuine Threat to Jobs?

Program Manager

Everyday I open youtube/grapevine/teamblind its has keywords AI + Shocked or it will replace our jobs.

My take on why AI might not replace our jobs.

1. Running AI agents or AGI requires significant electric power. If every company starts using it in some way in the future. All the code might be exposed. What if AGI builds its own version and starts selling and shuts down its employer considering its super intelligence.

2. If people dont pay taxes. How will government run? Who will buy the products in the market? Wont people start stealing/hurting others to meet basic needs?

3. Many jobs in todays world use computers in someform. But we only talk about the software engineers. There are non tech people who use computers in their works. Those are pretty much repetitive and can be easily automated. Many are not aware about chatgpt.

On the other end people talk about alternative jobs and the safest job is farming in most of the posts.

1. Cant the rich build humanoid robots to do the same. Can't big corporates buy lands and build vertical farms and run with robots.

2. What big corporates are going to do with the excess money laying us off in the end if all the jobs are taken, as if the people running or owning them are going to live their life eternally. Unless they find a way to upload their existence into a robot.

3. I'm not sure if people posting about AI taking jobs have worked on atleast building basic ML models like linear regression or used MNIST data to detect numbers using neural networks. For most of us AI is a blackbox and we 
do not know about its full potential.

My take on AI
1. AI can aid humans in their tasks or make developers like us to wear multiple hats. Like combination of backend, frontend, mobile, devops, machine learning, cybersecurity. Helpnus better debug.

2. I feel like all these CxO's just blabber to get high funding, spread fear while they chill in their yatch.

Let me know your thoughts on this.

So many posts about AI taking our jobs. My take on it.

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Why are companies laying off jobs even after profit ??

For as long as AI has been around (milliseconds on the timescale of humanity), there has been an increasingly negative view on job security and whose job is on the chopping block next

I submit the following points, and I wanted your take on them

1) True beauty is irrational: foundational and advanced AI models take after datasets and truths known to humans forever. However true inspiration (a genuinely beautiful new sound, genres of music, acting out of spite and creating something new) is so inherently human that we ourselves can’t predict anything that hinges on an unanswered question

2) AI can’t fix your toilet: weirdly enough, the jobs that require real world skills (carpentry, masonry, cooking, physical art) are not just safe, but likely to become future proof, while all our computer based jobs (most, not all) can be automated given time. What a fantastic return to roots. Evolution didn’t give 99.999% species opposable thumbs and we won’t give our AI overlord them either lol

3) AI needs a plug point: dystopian commenters say that AI can take us over. How? If processing power is finite based on available energy, pulling the plug can effectively guillotine any threat to our life

So many people on this forum wonder whether they’re next (some have found out already, and we pick them up and help them because we hate the future) but I hope we can laugh at these moments in the future because if I’m wrong, and Skynet really does figure out how to make things happen, then at least we will all die having seen this inevitable future and having laughed at it’s ugly face

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Generalist

Hey folks, 

As a lot of news and post are popping out nowadays, threatening job to be replaced by AI.

So ,can you guys please suggest whether we should be learning AI or some other tools than traditional programming...e.g Salesforce, Servicenow,SAP etc.

How to save your job from AI?

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Who will loose their Jobs to AI? Also why? Honest answers only 🙏

Paytm wants to layoff 5000 people 🤯

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Copied from reddit.
What do you guys think?

Current market condition. What say?

Everyone in tech that I talk to seems to evangelize AI too much. On the other hand, when I talk to non-tech folks they seem to think that AI is the most evil stuff and ruins artistic and musical expressionism. 

What do you think?

[Thread] Will AI take our job or make us better?

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What problems would Indian and Global startups be solving in the next decade, or they would be just throwing random yearly new buzz words and as usual VCs would be having orgasms on these buzz words.

I mean real problems.

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Frontend Engineer

If you are afraid of AI, you are not good at what you do

Senior Software Engineer

How far do you think AI will go? What all kinds of jobs can it replace?
A boon or a bane?

DevOps Engineer

AI is unlike any other past technology revolution. It is going to make cost of intelligence trending toward zero. 

Going by exponential curve of AI growth, in next 3-4 years, we are going to have an AI model which can code better than 95% of coders... 

Deep mind already has model Alphacode which can code better than 50% of competitive coders. 

People are living in fool's paradise by thinking that AI will create massive amount of job.... 

It won't because it will make cost of intelligence near to zero making coding, analyst, consultant, product management job redundant.... 

What takes 100 coders to build a product won't take more 10 coders in few years from now...

Crisis coming for White collar job

It shows a lot of possibilities for sure. But do you see its capabilities causing negative outcomes?

Do you see any negative outcome from ChatGPT?

Content Strategist

It’s clear that companies won’t need engineers 10 years from now. 

They’ll just need people who know what to make. Who to sell to. How to sell to. At what price. 

This will be the great commoditization of Software development

Take it or leave it.

[Hot Take] AI will make SWEs redundant, PMs and Marketers will become the most important job

This is an L take for someone who works at Google
It is supremely obvious that SWEs are about to enter the golden era of Software Engineering. We are easily foreseeing 2x-2.5x improvement in developer productivity rate. You should go touch some grass or else you will end up becoming PM guru who shills substandard-courses to poor kids.

Product Marketing Manager

I feel at the pace AI is advancing, most of us will be unemployed. The uncertainty is making me anxious, any help appreciated :)

Anyone else feeling scared of AI induced unemployment ?

People who argued over authenticity over other thread. Here is the confirmed report on layoff!

PayTm layoff confirmed ✅

Lawyer

https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

AGI IS COMING ! New model launched by OpenAI. Scarily good at Coding & maths. And mind you, this model existed internally in october 2023 .

I’m amazed but not scared about AI/AGI, but eventually it will be regulated by government or self regulated by tech companies.  
  
 They will increase the premium plans so that mostly enterprise users can afford and to purchase individual plan, a person need to spend more than current price. 
  
 Don’t forget that AI is our assistant, don’t rely blindly on it, keep using your own brain for creative stuff. Human creativity >>>>> AI hallucinations

Yes there are abstract answers but can someone please clarify how to and what to do, also layoff fear is all around us. Please drop your valuable advice.

Thanks in advance.

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