Don't Believe The AI Hype! Do This Instead...
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- Let's get real about AI and how it impacts programming. There's a lot of propaganda and fear being thrown around related to artificial intelligence (especially in software development and engineering) - so let's cut through the noise together.
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Here's what I cover in the video:
1. Who's Really Behind the AI Hype? - I take a look at who's actually benefiting from all this AI talk. Spoiler alert: it's not always who you think!
Your AI Game Plan - I share some down-to-earth advice for us programmers and software folks:
1. Be an AI Jack-of-all-Trades: It's all about understanding AI without getting lost in the hype.
2. Seeing Through the Sensationalism: I'll show you how to tell the difference between real AI breakthroughs and just media fluff.
3. Remember, You're the Brain Here: We can't forget the human touch in software engineering.
4. AI as Your Skill Booster: Let's talk about how AI can actually help you grow your skills.
5. Creating for the Non-Tech World: I encourage you to think about making products that connect AI with different industries.
6. Spreading AI Wisdom: It's super important to teach AI concepts to companies outside the tech bubble.
I made this video for all you software developers, engineers, and programmers out there who want to get a real perspective on AI's role in our field. Whether you're deep into your software career or just starting out, I've got some insights that you'll find valuable.
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CHAPTER MARKERS
0:00 Introduction
4:01 1. Who Stands To Gain From AI Hype?
4:10 1.1 The Media
5:08 1.2 Employers
6:04 1.3 Startups
7:27 1.4 Tech Training Companies
8:24 2 A Rational AI Approach for Programmers
8:30 2.1 Become an AI Generalist
10:00 2.2 Spot The Sensationalism
11:52 2.3 You Are The Compiler
14:38 2.4 Use AI To Diversify Your Skills
18:11 2.5 Build a Non-Technical Industry Product
20:22 2.6 Teach Non-Technical Companies AI
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Are you taking steps to avoid fear about AI as a programmer? What are some of the opportunities you see?
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AI will not replace developers never, i mean you can still find clients asking to do Wix setup and modifications, people are not the same. until people can completely trust self-driving cars and sleep while AI take command of your car. i can say maybe it's the time for AI to replace some developers jobs.
Your video makes sense. Google blames AI for letting 13k people go but says they are hiring in India. We know that AI is BS.
We learned from computer science that Turing machines have limitations and that computers can't solve mathematical proofs and some other problems. Yet, because some Machine Learning algorithms can rip off a solution from Stack Overflow that doesn't quite capture the requirements that you asked of it in the first place, AI is reducing the need for software engineers in the US.
@@selfReferencinDoxmaybe that's why this video was popping hard (#1 for views on my channel the first 3 days) then suddenly went flat out of nowhere. Ha gotta keep the conspiracy theorist a bay ;).
Corporates have been pumping billions of dollars of investment in AI over the last 20 years because they have been complaining about how expensive and necessary programmers have become and that's something they can't stand. That's why every software dev is encouraged to go into AI and all they hear about is the positives, oh yeah I'm really happy to work on something so I can make my job reduntant in a few years🤣
Sorry to be late for the party( being a sloth and all...). I am currently beggining to transition to software development from civil engineering and a lot of friends tell me that I'm going to make a mistake because AI will do everything. I laugh because fortunately I have a cold mind and see through the sensionalism and know that AI will create more jobs instead of eliminating. Like electricity created a lot more than it eliminated. Thank you for making a video that I can show keep up the good work!
As my mentor says "Information is losing value, the ability to think is the stock to buy.". Usually I rephrase it as “Now that many things became more accessible on the internet, information is losing its value. The ability to think is the new gold rush.”
This is golden
And people skills. People skills will become the currency of the future.
Well said! Please provide info to your mentor, I certainly need a good one.
@@KletoReese Dr Angela Yu
@@youMatterItDoesGetBetter
What do you call people skills ?
The skills people have, whatever those skills are ?
Or the skills to interact with other people ?
Or anything else ?
finally a rational video about AI. lot of youtubers i watched jumped the AI bandwagon and 70% is mostly fear-mongering. I also love it that you are practical and give us tips to adapt. Thank you
Glad I could help!
My sentiments exactly. So grateful for the sanity check.
It’s AI today. It was front-end frameworks last year and through the pandemic. It was microservices in the late 20-teens. It was mobile application development in the early 20-teens. “There is nothing new under the sun.” But - I *will* be leveraging AI to help me understand certain annoying aspects of work (and maybe life in general) and turning that into extra advice I can get a little extra for. Thank you for clarifying and slowing down my hamster-wheel pace so I can wrap my brain around it all!
Machine learning is more than just a fad. Just look at the illustrators. AI art really fucked them over. I feel really bad for them considering how long it takes to get good at it.
So, its just a tool, like compilers. LLMs are just "google" , but a bit better, not by much.
@@NycroLP Maybe entry-level art that's made to be disposable. I'm trying to launch a product for a real music band, I'm not going to use that crap. I'm paying a real artist.
On the other hand, I had another product that needed just simple disposable $5 art to make a mockup for a slide that I need to explain things (that you can buy online from fiver or something), that I was able to make using AI.
Nothing changed much.
@@monad_tcp For illustrators it's not a tool. It's the other way around seeing how they are used as prompts. Trust me, they are screwed. However not everyone is in this industry. Animators, concept artists etc. are fine for now.
I’m not sure about this. It’s not like there is no such thing as innovation which makes previous methods “obsolete.” I think it’s pretty reasonable to believe that AI has the potential to have an impact on our daily lives similar to the internet. Let’s imagine it’s 1992 and someone is trying to convince you this whole internet thing is a fad.
After using GH Copilot for some time i dont have AI-fear anymore
I fear it more. Mainly because I know many people will happily commit half working garbage code from here on out.
Refactoring cobbled together codebases is going to keep developers in jobs. :)
It will evolve.
😂
@@calmhorizons There's a great post by the maintainer of Curl where he may have had an interaction with Devin pre-release. It's not clear if it's Devin or some fool with an LLM just trying to get bug bounties, but it's painful. Poor guy wasted hours trying to reason with this guy about the use of unsafe code in C which was not unsafe.
@@initdialog it will, but there is still no clear answer as to whether it will evolve to a point where it can replace a programmer (at least, not in the next 10 years). We don't even know if LLM's are the path to AGI. A lot of top (publishing) AI researchers put the date AI will fully take human jobs around 2100. I think we are hearing more from execs selling stocks than the reality of the problems they face to achieve such a tool.
Let's take a big project like World of Warcraft for example, 10 million lines of code or more. I really wanna see an AI create a project like that and then a bunch of managers trying to tell the ai what to do and what bugs to fix.
Our players have latency issues, please fix it.
"if your players have latency issues here are a number of suggestions you can try to fix that"
I absolutely agree with you. The way I like to look at it is this, the core skill of a programmer is not writing code, but is problem solving. The best strength a programmer could have is not being an expert in language xyz, but in being able to learn quickly and easily. Even if at some point in the future code as we know it is obsolete, problem solving and learning will still be needed. That includes the specialized way of problem solving that programmers use... the need for that way of thinking won't go away, it will just be applied in a different way.
I agree 100%. In IT consulting, we look at our job as solving problems, or building solutions, using the best technology for the use case. If that technology is code, SaaS products, cloud platforms, or AI - it doesn't really matter. At the end of the day it's about helping customers get stuff done with software.
Big companies will never let external AI touch their codebase, because no one can trust external AI. AI is not regulated yet maybe in future but developers and programmers are here to stay, at least until AI can deploy and upgrade their self without needing humans.
Hi, Jayme. I'm new both to programming and your channel. I'm absolutely loving your content so far. To me, it' s like a breath of fresh air - a breath of common sense, of clear thinking and rationality here on TH-cam, where I've seen all the clickbait, all the hype, the propaganda, fear, paranoia etc etc. It's really driven me nuts at times, oh my God. Thank you for doing what you do.
Glad you're enjoying it! Welcome to the channel. Glad to have you here.
I just recently started full-time as a new grad hire, it's been incredibly difficult to navigate this new AI environment having limited industry experience. Thank you for giving me your perspective and reassurance!
I have to say you're very lucky in a way to start your career at this point in time. When I started as a junior dev in 2021, it was a remote job and my head was literally spinning for several weeks. At the end of everyday I'd go to bed feeling like I was sick and then start all over again the next day. The main problem was being so new and getting thrown into a huge code base and having to navigate my way around it without adequate support. Having ChatGPT at the time would have been a life saver.
Excellent videos... I am a 20+ years Software Engineer, and developing software since mid 80s, and I feel I can get extreme value from your videos. Thank you !
Great stuff, and I'm really looking forward to your videos in the next year.
So glad I came across this video today. Honesty I was going crazy putting a roadmap together on how to learn AI. There so much force feeding and fear going on. I'm thrilled you put things into perspective for many of us on here. Thank You!!
Mate, you’re a legend. In this video, you managed to speak loudly about all the ideas and thoughts I had in my mind in the last few weeks, going through all AI news and panicking at some point!
This is something I struggled with up until very recently when I digged into it a bit more just to realize all these LLMs and image generators are just fancy text and image predictors. They dont/wont have digital god particle like some of the CEOs who have to sell the idea to investors claim it has.
your brain is just a very fancy prediction machine, hooked up to more inputs than LLMs.
@@KnifeWieldingMan No, brains literally are prediction machines. Evolution is a very slow process, and doesn’t select for “intelligence”, necessarily, while the product of our brains (in this case, LLMs), are explicitly being selected for intelligence. There is nothing magical about brains, just layers and layers of complexity and emergent properties that science does not fully understand yet. Thinking otherwise is hubris to the highest degree.
@@JonWillis9 Nope, not one iota or word of this sentence is true. Amazing how prevalent and yet incorrect this line of thinking is. The closest thing an LLM is to the human brain is the frontal lobe....and THAT'S IT. And even that is an absolutely useless comparison, as weighted algebraic nodes are barely relatable to the neurons in your brain. You seemingly have swallowed too much of the AI kool-aid...
@@JonWillis9 Not quite, your brain has intent. LLMs do not have intent, nor is there any evidence that they can develop it with current model designs. Programming is all about intent.
wanna bet
This hype is starting to becoming annoying. Recently the president of NVIDIA had a video posted stating don’t learn to program instead learn things like biology. What I said was a quick generalization. But watching the video only showed me how greedy and manipulative some people who are going to benefit from AI can be.
One worry I hear often is that if a junior with AI can code as much as a senior without, that job demand will decrease. People don't realize: there is nearly infinite demand for new code. Just think about the possible projects your company might want to start when they finish the current one. Just think about a local pastry shop that would want to have a new specialist app developed for its customers. The demand is infinite.
The only problem is when AI writes itself. Tests itself. Improves itself. Then the concept of infinite demand will struggle to keep its value. Not becoming a doom-ist.
@@necbranducBut none of our AI today is even remotely close to that, if it's even a goal whatsoever. We are mostly interfacing with LLMs which are nothing like what you're suggesting. They don't learn like that, they don't even really know what words mean, they only know how to string together words in patterns they've learned from.
@@necbranduc Every bit of that is not only hypothetical, but so far seems unattainable. Hallucinations are not solvable without self-awareness, and synthetic sentience is pure fantasy and science fiction. "AGI" just just a term to dangle for investors and it will always be "just a couple years away".
@larsfaye292 This comment will not age well, there is WAY too much money to be made and actively being invested in AI for us not to continue to see massive improvements in the capabilities of AI systems, anyone following what could be done just a few years ago vs now would be able to recognize this
@@larsfaye292I watched a video yesterday by Andrew Ng, one of the top educators in AI. He reckons AGI is decades away.
Thanks for adding some well-needed perspective. Too much panic out there right now, mainly from people who have pie-in-the-sky expectations of the technology.
AI on the blockchain with crypto and web3. I'll get millions in VC cash with just those words alone
And don't forget NFTs to make it rock solid 100% successful combination!
Appreciated the video, it's those misunderstandings that can cause issues or be used as an excuse, as you say. The truth is coding is only part of the job of a software engineer and there is a lot more human factors to deal with that are not easily replaced.
Keep in mind we've had a lot of code generators and RAD Tools over the years and yet we are still coding. It's definitely something to keep an eye on but, not to panic about.
Great video !
Getting afraid of different incarnations of AI is like being frightened by the power of modern spreadsheet processing software .
Embrace useful elements of it and have more time for cool stuff at work .
If a client does not call you and instead talks, as human to human, to an AI you can embrace whatever you want, you just won't get paid for embracing whatever is it you're embracing
But what if no human can understand how the AI works?
Because you think you will still get paid for the tedious part of your job if the AI makes it better and / or faster than you ? You think your employer will give you more "fun stuff" to do instead ?
I taught myself programming from about 2004-2014, particularly from 2009 on. I WISH I had ChatGpt back then. It would have saved me years. It is incredibly powerful for learning. I spent so much time scouring the internet, reading books, chasing down any pro dev or teachers that I could, and a whole bunch of that process gets streamlined when you can ask a chat AI. Why it works great for software to that verifying the responses is typically pretty easy. And if you run into problems, you just keep iterating. I don’t think it would work very well if you didn’t know how to problem solve, however, but you’re already in trouble in programming if you can’t do that, AI or no. And AI can help teach you it.
I needed this talk. Thanks.
Love the content of this video. Practical tips in terms of spotting the AI hype signals and ways to avoid getting wrapped up in them. Keep up the good work❤ Btw, is it a light illuminating the Himalayan Rock salt in your background?
Yes. I have no idea if these things actually do anything, but I love the look of them. Kind of more interesting than a typical lamp.
I love how you indicate that it's been a helpful teaching tool for you, because of the dozens of ways I've used it, this seems to be the most fruitful. It can condense information in a digestible format, it can point you to further resources, and it can teach you at varying levels of competency. It's an incredibly useful teaching tool at the very least, and I think if you aren't using it on a regular basis you really are missing out.
Just be aware that it can confidently hallucinate about facts.
@@alexxx4434I agree people should still look at documentation and learning the basics. I use AI to help teach me but it is not the be all end all. Also AI is not that great with larger pieces of code. So I use it to send me in the right direction when it comes to code snippets!
@@alexxx4434True
It's known foremost for telling abolute BS, but if you're OK with it...
I got the updated Microsoft Azure AI Engineer certification in November and already landed the best job of my life
I never thought about these things. I'm not that worried but you made me think a lot. I enjoy your videos, thanks.
Thank you for this. It has started helping me a lot to understand the motivations behind people pushing the hype.
oh man, finally an experienced engineer giving their insights on how the industry operates and what AI trends mean ... thank you my friend!
Wow, a very well put together video. Thank you for your time!
My pleasure!
It's certainly a balance that you need to draw between understanding the general idea of things, and knowing things at a more profound level. Because you want to be able to replace individual components of the tools you use if they stop working at some point, but you also should avoid trying to become an AI expert (unless you're really really into it).
fantastic video mate. People need to hear this.
very cool video. The point about certain people profiting from fearmongering resonated with me the most
Amazing advice! I really appreciate you making this video. It helped expand my awareness of a lot of the intentions of others in regards to the hype. And to understand the effects of sensationalism surrounding AI.
You're so welcome!
You are a voice of reason in this madness! Agree with you 100%.
The world needs more of you. Thanks for sharing your toughts !
Great video, it definitely helped reduce anxiety as a fellow dev. Can't wait to see more content around this topic in 2024!
Clean and structured info
Thanks 🙏
You raise some great points. All this AI does seem like hype. I remember long time ago, everyone was talking about web 3.0. Today, I don't hear a thing about 3.0. Hype can be scarry because it can bring out all of the negative "What if this... What if there are no more jobs..." Thanks for making the video.
Great video, I like your calm and grounded feet way to approach tech subjects, especially this one from AI, I think I agree with almost everything that you said.
I would only add that one of the things I try to do is to have an emergency/investments fund to diminish a little more my worries, it doesn't need to be sufficient for FIRE or never to work anymore, but to give me enough time to do any room for manuver in case something goes wrong, being AI related or not, I'm working to build this fund,
An emergency fund is always a great idea! I'm trying to build mine back up myself.
You could also think about hedging by investing into companies that will benefit the most if your job get's AI-ed away.
@@mrfchannel142 I guess personally I'd rather not take those chances, but I can see that as a reasonable approach if you've got the cash to spare.
Excellent points. People must stop buying into hype designed to cause knee-jerk reactions and sudden decisions that are not well-reasoned and thought out against long-term goals.
3:26 everyone's forgotten the hype around IoT
Not really. IoT was just rebranded as: The Edge.
good take. looking forward towards the new content
Great perspective. I am so glad that you brought this out. Every LLM follower should listen to this!
I had to see this, excellent content as always.
the statement that ai is going to grow so fast that it is impossible to keep up with it really resonated with me ^^
i was an ai nerd well before this recent ai craze started and ive been doing ai related side projects for what feels like forever now. im not an expert by any means, but i at least have a lot of background knowledge that my peers dont have. but recently the field just moves forward so extremely quickly that even i cant keep up with it without making it a full time job. it is just way too much 😅
Glad it helped a bit. Good for you to get some experience with it though, I think we all should be spending at least some time learning AI technologies (preferably on the company's clock).
Thank you. This is great content. After evaluating packages/technology for a project I'm working on I often ask chat GPT. Most of the time I don't go for its recommendations. I need to consider the team I work on and the strengths of my colleagues, my stakeholder needs etc. This is information I'm privy to. However, I keep that recommendation in my back pocket as something I can draw on should the dynamic shift.
I don't often comment but this is a very insightful view into the industry and human nature in general. Very logical and level headed presentation about the state of the technology world. Nice work.
Thank you, I feel like I'm crazy sometimes amidst the hype lol.
I share the sentiments expressed in this video! Thank you for putting it together.
Fun fact, there was an AI boom in the 1980s too. p.1 of On Lisp: "... during the brief AI boom in the 1980s...".
I'm not ignoring that the tools exist, but I'm totally aware that it's very distracting and taking focus away from keeping one's skills sharp.
I'm in the camp saying: "Call me one day when you need to unfu- er, undo the mess that you now can't understand."
I'm curious to see what happens.
Yeah, that happened with Prolog too. The whole thing was more oriented towards 'Expert Systems'.
Even if all the new technologies do come to fruition, there is still an awful lot of mission critical legacy out there that AI will not be able to maintain...chill out folks. As Fred Brooks said in 1986, "There is no silver bullet". That maxim is as applicable today as it was back then.
Jayme, thank you is not even enough🙌🙌🙌🙌
I love this perspective! Also, did you do this in one take? 😮 your presentation skills have increased a lot since you started this channel 😊😊
It was one take but there was still some editing.
I needed this, not because I believe in the FUD, no, I'm just fed up with the hype.
Following the money is always great advice.
I learned the basics of C# a few months ago and couldn't have done it without GPT4. At least, not in that same time frame. I have production code in service, and I had never written a line of C# before that. I had some experience with C++, but not in 10 years.
Great video!
I'm starting to think the upside to coding itself becoming "cheaper" is that a LOT more companies (non-tech) will be able to afford development of a lot of custom made solutions for them. Hence that also gives us a LOT more work and there will actually be a higher demand of SE:s.
as a college student this video has been really helpful. many classmates of mine keep saying programming won't be a thing once we graduate. thanks for posting!
This video was delivered just in the right moment
ser, you earned a subscriber, thanks for speaking my mind out in this crazy hype cicle
Thank you ! really thank you
What an amazing reasonable useful speech
Really appreciate your critical thought out view point . Rare these days .
Well put! This one made me finally subscribe. :)
Welcome to the channel! Appreciate your support :)
Very good information
Sometimes we need to slow down and think. It is easy to be afraid of something. Proper threat assessment is essential.
AI is a tool. I was working on a seriously difficult issue over a weekend. As the lead, I was flying solo on a Saturday and didn't have anyone (didn't want to bother anyone) to lean on. Truth be told, after finding the root cause all I would have done is create frustration and angst by pulling someone in. After four hours with chatGPT, it turned out to be a circular reference issue in our frontend code. I have no clue how long it would have taken me to diagnose without it. However, without me it wouldn't have been of any use.
19:17 We came full circle: AI reducing the staff. I think at this point we should stop denying the fact that AI will lead to reduction of staff in many sectors, there is just no way around it.
Great advice, and a great message to all of you youngsters out there; There Is No New Thing Under the Sun. One benefit of listening to us greybeards is that we've seen all of this before, and even in current market conditions, you're far more likely to find a veteran Unix sysadmin hard at work in a data center, instead of fighting hobos for leftover Jersey Mike's under a highway overpass. Every new tech is an opportunity, and for those willing to embrace it, AI could liberate more developers from Corporate cubicle hell than anything before it.
Looking from my 24 years in programming......you are right on point in all aspects! Great video!
Think you for diamond advice
Very good point
I remember other bogeymans: Programming getting outsourced to India, no-code or low-code
Thanks for bringing back some sanity. All the juniors in my team won't learn to write a line of code anymore, everything I ask for they just go and chuck it into a GPT prompt and when they can't get the job done (most of the times) they come back to me and ask for help. This is so sad, to work with people without passion for learning and understanding how things work.
May I ask which field this is in?
Full stack development + DevOps automation
At my work, we’ve had vendors start sending us emails about how they are going to use AI for this and that, and some of them still haven’t implemented responsive web design. 😂 I’m an internal dev and sometimes I compete with these vendors, but I have plenty to do.
needed to hear that from a pro senior developer
One time I used it to give ideas to fix a problem. After 6h doing all that, the solution worked with 30 lines more code. Then I thought that it must be a library bug. Asked it should search for this specific bug, found nothing. I searched 3min, found solution with 2 lines code.
sooooo i’m wondering since i have 2.5 years left on my software engineering bachelor’s degree should i switch majors or what lol im so lost
Be perceptive, i.e. understand the different types of models, e.g. Orca-2 for logic, MemGPT for session memory, AutoGen for agents, turning specialist text and images into vectors, and saving vectors into vector DBs for LLMs to quickly access.
What will that do?
@@BinaryDood There is a model called nomic-embed-text. It turns text into embeddings (vectorised data). The embeddings are saved to a vector DB, like Chroma. Vectors are why LLMs can perform similarity searches really quickly.
I am actually waiting for that first article about a company dying a miserably and embarrassing death after it doubled down on no-code and AI. Not knowing what their code actually does or has been doing. Having no clue how to fix, debug or test it. No way of expanding, extending or modularizing it, cause the code has been optimized and made to work for 1 specific problem or use case. Basically being dead in the water after a flash in the pan successful launch. It's going to happen, no doubt.
Great video!
It's cool to see good content with balanced and measured opinions instead of the "fear the AI Apocalypse". Totally agree with you on that, what is right will never be as important as what is profitable. AI has some good sides though (Except generating good code 🥲). Writing boilerplate code effortlessly, saving snippets for auto completion and project/context based chat are really really cool applications of AI (Apologies if the vocabulary is weird, I'm not a native speaker).
8:00 totally right. i also though maybe i'm missing out on AI. maybe i'm stupid for not jumping on right away. then i thought i should at least try AI. and it did't do much for me. except it can help on researching stuff sometimes. but usually it doesn't really do much. so no need to panic 🙂
Thanks for the video. As one person said, "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises." It should be applied to the tech as well. All these promoters of different frameworks, platforms etc. care about their incomes first. If it'll be useful and convenient for developers - great, if not, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shi .. I just realized you´re one of the few sober ones out and you seem honest! I think you´re right!
Thank you so much dude, you helped me a lot really a lot. You don't know but you did. May God bless you.
You're so very welcome!
I don’t know. I’ve been using Codeium which is not as ambitious as Copilot and I’m amazed what it can do. I think it is not a big leap to create systems that automatically generate entire libraries without human intervention resulting in fewer software engineers overall. I’m 60 so this probably won’t happen too much before I retire.
Thanks for the feedback. Absolutely agree the technologies are really great.
One of the big weaknesses we need to overcome for them to really be viable in more situations is change management. Data migration and evolving API contracts has always been a challenge. Unless that problem is somehow completely handled and hidden, we'll still need engineers to work with the AI tooling for sophisticated products. Not sure how long this will be an issue, but there are still quite a few barriers we've been trying to solve as humans for years with software engineering that the AIs need to actually come up with better solutions for before jobs are truly threatened.
Now if someone chooses to not use AI at all, that's just irresponsible. We should all be learning it in some way or another. But the main point I was trying to get across in this one is to make more strategic decisions about how to adopt using AI and not panic. Hopefully that came across on some level.
Here's my advice:
Become so good at your job that you can't google your problems and you can solve problems that can not be googled.
As a complete novice, I remember having to copy pages of code from a book to get a program to run, it took me forever and then I mis typed dome bits....fast forward a few decades plus change and I asked copilot to code me some ball physics simulation within a square. To my surprise it did it within 5 seconds..the progress is there, being able to do something like that by just talking is mindblowing. It took my regular sentence and translated that into a computer program, something functional. The tech is amazing and only getting better. Its only a matter of time when a layman would be able to say build me a 3d world and there it is. If I was a programmer I would be worried about the trajectory the tech is taking,nits only a question of when at this point!
When a layman can build a 3d model, what can non-laymen do? It's only going to empower our profession - not eliminate it. See my AI video (if you haven't already).
Great advice
It works both ways, as an independent developer I can now do 3x the work in the same time making more money
I have a small github project where I wrote some automated tests in python and fed them to chatGPT asking if it could write code to pass these tests.
This stuff can be really cool.
Don’t take advice from anyone who sells you something, that’s true for everything in life.
Coders should not fear AI, AI is a tool, that can improve your productivity (ex: rubber ducking or just help you remember stuff)
However, people (not just coders) should fear MBA-type executives that will wield AI... If they can sell their mother to make a buck, they would, so imagine them with something as powerful as AI in their hands, I can only fear what will happen.
That's a good point. I think AI is generating some decent assets (not perfect), but it has to also nail incrementally changing those assets to replace programming. By then hopefully we'll all have mastered using it and programming will just evolve.
Look at the other side of this potential issue: tons of people out of work also weilding the power of AI (there is already great progress in making LLM on consumer hardware accessible). What will these masses of people do? I don't think they will just curl up and die.
@@alexxx4434 agree completely. Small business is what drives innovation and I think we're going to see a lot more of it.
Fully agree. Idiots EVPs from the company I work atm started talking about layoffs arguing that 30% of engineers will be replaced by AI.
Good to see a rational appraisal of AI. Thank you!
Fear of what isnt really here to any significance, such as AI and Communists, is very destructive. Its important to keep one's prefrontal cortex online.
Hey I am 16 years old and I do love computer programming and want to pursue a career in it. I loved your insightful video and tips to stay calm. So, do you think it is a wise decision to proceed with it in the advent of AI technologies. Can someone help me out ?
In my opinion anyone learning software engineering today should learn it in tandem with AI technologies.
@@HealthyDevThank you sir. I love your content !
Are you amillenial or pre trib or post trib?
Its weird how ai can make some good code but this morning for me it kept calculating the wrong standard deviation for me with just a sample of 10 numbers.
Hmmm..there is no such thing as a silver bullet. AI is the latest silver bullet. Give it 3-5 years and there will be another. Learn a tool and apply it appropriately. Totally agree. Been in the biz since 94. Bullet++
Gartner hype cycle
Thank you.
I needed this thanks man finally someone spoke the truth.