Why I QUIT Coding (as an ex-Google programmer). ChatGPT won't save us.
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really?
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what do you think of Ben Awad who is coding the next billion dollar app gaming company? Isn't it the fact that coding isn't the thing but rather coding + creativity can get you somewhere?
@@mohammadanwar9848 Because of AI only creativity will matter in a few years.
Are you getting a free house in Japan yet? Has Japan offered you a job yet to get you to move back there? You’re a Japanese American who managed to produce an offspring. They should pay you just to live there and have ten kids.
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He is not a millionaire anymore. He spent it all on his wife though.
Yeah, techlead is clickbaity
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AI Stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over 250k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of wealth transfer in this downtime if you know where to look.
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I was a programmer before Techlead was probably even born, lol, but was always behind the bleeding edge in my career and always chasing the latest and greatest in trends. As soon as I'd get a job in it, there would be lots of other technologies taking off somewhere else ahead of me. I knew of people a little older than me who were one of the first COBOL programmers and were making the big bucks and getting corner offices just for coding in COBOL, so it's all about riding the wave of the latest hotness like the FANG companies are doing now. Coding didn't start with FANG. Also, since I've been programming, there was always some tool coming out to replace the programmer, but it never seemed to happen, coding languages just evolved.
Thank you for sharing these insights!!! I have to say as a web developer I am a little concerned, as I see a lot of people using AI tools to code and basically we are getting faster, but maybe also more lazy and not as sharp, since we use tools to do OUR job. Idk!
This is true, but by the time you know where the next trend is going you're behind. I remember when TCL/TK was hot, when PHP was hot, when Flash was hot, when Ruby was hot. I know it took me by surprise when Python became top dog. How long will Python remain at the top?
I think its about risk...if you are programming, its just a skill , you are just taking instructions....and if you are chasing trends ...you are not bearing risk...you can't expect to make it big...its just econmics and capital markets
@@mirijekayis347 As a programmer you could use AI tools yourself to be ahead of those others who don't understand coding. You could be more productive and/or creative with that tools so you are still wanted and get your money out of it instead of being replaced, I think.
It anin't ever gonna happen. Tools will just get better. AI is just a better tool.
There no profession in history that flooded you with money. Since ever entrepreneurs made the money. If it happened for you to be one in the past with software engineering skills then even better. But software engineers that made millions where entrepreneur first. What's changing now is that in order to build something big you need a team. Who has best social skills wins. As always been
Remember my friend the rule of thumb in business: the boss (or house) gets 3x your salary in value. One-third goes to the boss as profit, one-third pays for your overhead, and one-third is your salary. So if boss is paying you $200k a year in salary, he's actually getting $600k in value (or more) from you. And if he/she is not, you might want to update your resume...
well at the end of the day its sales. ppl like buying stuff from ppl they like
Being an entrepreneur is having a team (employees).
The biggest misnomer is that anybody can enter the IT industry and succeed. The industry is competitive, difficult, and dynamic. If a person does not have a genuine interest, they will burn out quickly.
I have around 20 years of career left. I would be happy to spend the rest of it as a software repair man with a decent living wage. I don't need yachts, trips to five star hotels, expensive cars - just a stable job with minimal stress and remote work.
I'm a programmer and as far as I know the software engineering industry is gonna grow exponentially, let not some TH-camr looking for following mislead you, the app development market is still hot. It's just your thought that limits you. And besides alot of the corners of software engineering are so untouched...
Think of robotics, quantum computing, etc...
That's exactly true. Nobody should listen to this fraudster.
Yeah Africa is a gold mine for robotics, ChatGPT doesn't execute in the real world and man does. High quality low cost tech is in high demand.
Lol yeah can’t tell if this video is sarcastic humor or not
@@pjf7044 you must be new around here
Listen techlead. I see a lot of myself in you. You seem to be going through tough times.
My advice is that you stop indulging in your nihilism. Been there done that…
As for what you want to do. Stop after chasing money. This strategy never works on the long run.
Just focus on something you enjoy and in which you provide excellence. You are a smart man, so you can easily strive to be the best.
I was never interested in coding apps for other people, I use programming to write tools for myself, for example to support my research in theoretical computer science. This is a lot of fun and very useful. In general, I think it is a bad decision to do what you do mostly for money but not out of interest. Also, most math professors love what they do, most people working in industry, do not.
This, people want to learn programming for money, that's not bad but learning programming to support your life, it's way better. Also, there are better (and more profitable) ways to make money than programming.
This seems like where programming will go. All those ML models are heavily reliant on huge quantities of accurate, clean data. So data manipulation and curation is the next big thing in programming.
Same, I'm a maker, and I use my (limited) skills to supplement my projects.
same. i am writing advanced maths tools mostly for analysis for myself.
I think the reason we're not seeing big viral apps lately is because the space has become more decentralized over time. Although there's still big tech assets which don't have APIs currently, theres still lots of integration between disparate entities which has developed over the last decade. This allows firms more opportunity to focus on specific niches without having to duplicate a specific competency that another player already has enabled and can be integrated with. So, I think we're still seeing the overall industry grow rapidly, but with a larger number of smaller and more focused entities within it. And those types of firms aren't going to go viral usually.
It feels like there's fewer moonshots in tech, but with AI gaining relevance, purpose, and intelligence, there's a whole new greenfield space to capitalize in with software. AI is still extremely limited in what it can do, and a big factor in enabling it's potential will be unlocked with integrations alone.
I do agree with the significance of the "Social Media OS". Social media is in many respects the central place for the internet. Most people check their social media more than any other digital platform throughout the day. You want to be where your target audience already is, so it makes sense to build within and around social media.
I think there’s success potential in being “1 degree away” from direct coding. For example, after coding for 20 years I am trying to be a software auditor/PM: A nontechnical company would hire me as an advocate for them between themselves and another technical firm they are hiring to do some work for them, and my responsibilities would include code reviews, recommendations to both sides, and writing reports. Without 20 years+ of coding, I wouldn’t be able to do that work
Couldn't you start an internship at an auditing company and start your career there? Is 20 years as a software developer the only way?
@@bonenintomatensaus I’m sure it can be done with less “time in service.” But there’s a reason why most people in the functional-language space are seniors, for example. They all learned the hard way that that’s the best way to write code (in terms of bug frequency, testability, maintainability etc.) Remarkably, there’s scant empirical evidence to support this, however. If I ever make a ton of money again, I will absolutely fund some research there
But yes, you could be a very good code auditor with less time, assuming that time was spent pretty intensely. A lot of the pieces about why certain coding forms are “way less than ideal” unfortunately only come from lots of experience, however
@@bonenintomatensaus what I'm saying, though, is that if you are tired of coding as a career, "code-adjacent" careers exist, which are potentially even more lucrative.
For example, I can’t explain the joy at making the leader of another coding team stutter in self-defense as I asked calm but pointed questions as to why they were jerking around my friend, who was employing them at the time, but who I knew they were also bullshitting and milking for cash. They were literally unable to bullshit me, and this was worth money to my friend, who happily paid me for being able to “talk the talk” that he could not.
A lot of people’s “business” is telling people to start a business lol
I'm rich > I know how to get rich > pay me and I'll tell you > the secret is sell people this secret. Oldest trick in the book.
@@1adamuk wow, let's have something real here !
you are totally right most of milliners millionairesdo that
@@1adamuk haha very well put my friend.
You got it backwards. No one is a photographer these days because EVERYONE is a photographer.
That’s the point!
@@awabaca…but he didn't say it cool like Yogi Berra would. 😄
Also, I think it is important to specifically mention that basically everyone is a photographer today, because not everyone is a coder / programmer today. The iPhone 4 to Photography is not the same as ChatGPT 4 to programming.
Even if AI becomes so powerful that you could simply say, "Build me a new app store", how many people are going to want to do that? Most people enjoy taking pictures. It's almost instinctive to show off cool photos. It's not the same with programming. It takes a certain mindset to solve technical problems - even with advanced software tools.
Perhaps society made a mistake to idolize coding, like it was a panacea profession, but that's not why I learned to code anyway. The Internet killed my chosen profession, so I started building websites… way before it was trendy.
And when everyone is a photographer, no one will be.
"Everyone can be super and when everyone is super, no one will be"(syndrome).
@@-eggsy That's when it hit! I saw that movie and instantly knew that's exactly what happened to my career. I mentioned Syndrome / The Incredibles at the start of my Photography playlist. 😄
I can relate. I’ve worked in software development in the medical devices industry for decades, and I recently retired early and moved to Asia with my wife and child. I think I left the field at the right time as many of our jobs were going to overseas workers who get paid less than us Americans. The work is still there, there are many more developers, but they are mostly now overseas in South Asia.
Wow. I was going to school do be a CRNA but I was really considering being a SD because the birth of only baby recently for some “pros” of a SD
I always had an issue with focussing. I started maybe 30 projects and completed non. I see it similar to you. I would not call myself a winner with all the rubbish in my head :-) It's hard to learn each year a new framework or whatever is just coming up. Anyway, with your level of knowhow, I would not quit coding. You came so far and now is the time to leverage this potential.
The way how fast he ends his videos always makes me laugh and fascinate at the same time 😂 here it takes less than 5 seconds 😂
As far as I understood he tells me to quit programming asap and become a waitress
pool dancer 😂
That's why my dream was never to work for Google or Facebook or so. When programmers like you finally understand what you understand, it's about time for them to put together and create their own stuffs and shape their future the way they want it.
If you want to grind leetcode anyway, why not just aim for the quant/trading firms is what I think. At least I can make a million+ in 4 years there and move on to something else that I like.
what better day than the one that starts with tech lead reminding me he's an ex-google ex-facebook ex-cartel ex-nsa millionaire!
@@YumFit1 wdym?
And this fine gentleman KeitelDOG is the embodiment of sour grapes.
That is still a direct goal in enticing brilliant minds with gobs of money to get them off the street into the corporate environment to atrophy rather than having these people create or join startups to disrupt the market with something new and incredible. Startup creations are done since only a few years ago, and big tech is not really compensating with new stuff.
I've personally never really looked at being a coder as "the" job. More like it's part of what I enjoy doing; making things; solving interesting problems. I suppose that's why I don't view machine learning as a threat. Just another tool to learn and leverage. If I were to give my kids advise on a career to pursue, I'd tell them not to even think about "careers". Just pursue what you think will be valuable to you and to the most people in the market. Ideally it's something most other people don't want to do so there's actual value. Who knows what that'll be in the coming years. Not really wise to put your eggs in one basket. Better to follow tech leads in the industry you're interested in and work on things you are passionate about. Keep the challenge going.
yeah but ppl have become entitled. I have a degree so i should have a job.
This is sound advice, Thanks
@@takoflame4948 its not their fault as individuals tho.. that was fed to them from a young age, and they were bombarded witj advertisement and false stories about what their life's path would look like if they did x or y or z. Of course they could have thought outside the box but everyone is just so worried about if they will even get a job that its rly just a minority of people who can do that compared to the rest.
And to be fair in a near future most jobs wont be safe so i simpathize with them.
If you like to solve interesting problems... that's great. Will you still like it when ML can do it better than you, and your activity virtually has no more value? I graduated in AI in 2003. Done Java, Python, quite a bit of frontend... there are very little 'interesting' problems to me other than custom shaders, neural network architectures (the things you don't find on StackOverflow), the rest is plain business logic, keeping up to date with programming paradigms (OOP to functional) and learning frameworks. I don't consider it real programming. Also the communities are so volatile (jumping from one to the other), changing their mind just to make up for their own flaws.
I've stopped programming some time ago, there are other interesting functions in IT. However, as pointed out by the TechLead, AI might be the exception. Not claiming to be able to able to code, train and deploy GPT like networks, but I do believe that with some creativity interesting products/services can still be made (based on efforts by Google, Facebook, Berkeley University e.a.). Transfer learning methods/downstream tasks...
Too many people claiming to be programmers, and to be 'in' tech whilst doing stuff that can be taught to an 8 year old.
I do agree with you about following your passion, and especially to keep the challenge going, we'll definitely have to. Not to optimistic though, when AI improves in terms of usability (cf Sam Altman's remarks on ChatGPT), I don't think we'll need a lot of analysts neither.
@@remedytee I have the strong inclination to write several paragraphs in response to this, lol. I don't know what the future holds, but I do remember Y2K. A whole lot of tech-oriented fear for next to no payoff. I think the best thing we can do is not buy into the fear and just take the information we gain for what it is.
Whether ChatGPT or other AI models are capable enough or gimmickry is a whole other debate. In my observation, they are quite useful while learning a new programming language or a framework or procedure library. They are excellent at explaining medium-size codes (below 200 lines after which they will reject the input). They are reasonably good at generating small code samples for someone since the user will have to modify the code in any way. People are not using ChatGPT that much very recently. How many of us want to work all day to learn, read, observe etc.? People want entertainment. Ultimately, people will spend the remaining time they have on Facebook, after a day-long work. They'll watch TH-cam videos, Snapchat short videos, and TikTok dances. Mindless scrolling relieves our frustrations and boredom with our daily repetitive experiences. Even after getting banned, there are some new ebook websites still operational. Those places are helping students so much. Without them, students would find a hard time getting the quality information needed to complete their courses. However, how many of us visit those sites to download books? Even if some of us do, how many such people bother reading what they've downloaded? I'm not an exception. Although, I try my best to use what I download. People have limited time. On top of that, so many aspects of modern life make people impatient, anxious, worried and what's not. Many professions are already dead for years, and it is totally unrelated to the AI revolution. Agriculture, food, medicine, infrastructure development, and alternative sources of energy are a few noteworthy fields with prospects to flourish. After ten years, the world will be a completely different place that will change how people work forever. AI will not overtake humanity. AI will accelerate the revolution. Many people will slowly lose their jobs so they will have to diversify their fields of work. As for software development, maintainers will be required. Programming will be a common part of the school/college curriculum. Some schools are already teaching C++ in the ninth standard.
Explaiend with excellence
Underappreciated comment, thanks for writing out your thoughts so eloquently!
@pinaki u r sooo short sighted if u don't think that code maintenance can be done by gpt5 then I highly doubt ur intelligence level or understanding of coding.
What are the new ebook websites ? Asking for a student 😊
You are all over the place.
this is all awesome predictions and we can also assume that platforms will find a way to de-moneitize any form of easy content. youtube is big on de-monetizing and it forces people to think outside the box which is good but then when someone finds a loop hole that gets patched or saturated. What I believe is that to survive in the future we will have to be an all-in-one creator of content, problem solving, etc. You can no longer just be good with 1 skill you have to have multiple skills. This could also mean we need more tools that can help people acquire or manage multiple skills. (cough) matrix brain connector that downloads skills (cough).
I wonder if this is actually human evolution
You have shared some very great observations and unusual overlooked aspects of life...which all of us have come across but never tried to put in words...its always a pleasure to hear some intellectual / academic talking...
"If you want opportunities you have to continue looking forward and not backwards"
I think this final quote summarise the video pretty well for me.
Its really hard for me to let go my future visualization of myself being a tech guy, but at the same time I just want big money and to be successful. I just feel that I am throwing away my potential getting there through content creation or other non technical ways. I have the dream of having a tech startup and make millions, but maybe thats something from the past, I dont know, Im so fucking lost.
Damn it
I feel like everyone wants to get a good job and enjoy life, and they don't really care about what job it is, so when programming became popular they were like cool, let's try this.
And I kinda feel lost cuz idk what the trend is, what job will be popular (and interesting) and will earn me decent money
If you want to have a tech startup and make millions, you need to learn how to be a CEO and raise money. You should not be in a technical role. You should be spending all your time raising the value of your company and getting investors.
I had the same problem in the past, so I think you are seeing the problem bigger than it really is.
You want to make money, nothing else. That is fine enough.
Why would you wasting your technical potential if in the future, an AI will do that?
@@santo998 because It’s not for others, it’s for me. Why does a painter paint a landscape if there are already cameras?
I like science, math, physics, I like the EUREKA moment, the satisfaction of solving a really hard problem. Staying late at night solving a puzzle.
And I know I would be a good mathematician or physicist. The thing is I want to be rich, I cannot allow myself not to be rich.
I do data warehousing and analytics/dashboarding. I think there will always be hunger for the business to get at their data, and more-so now with the data landscape becoming more complex and fractured over time.
Your sarcasm is so tastefully used its an art itself. Really entertaining, but only small portions lol.
Keep up the good work man!
Thanks for the update it's good to know what's happening on the social media platform for myself which I know very little about the technical side as you just explained very interesting thanks once again
*Here's something a lot of people miss:*
AI is making coding through English language FINALLY possible (and therefore every other language too due to stuff like google translate).
Remember, this was what programming languages wanted to achieve all along. Instead of having to write in Assembly or Binary, they provided you an easier way to communicate with a computer.
And the trends in how the programming languages kept getting easier to learn and became increasingly closer to plain English only pointed to a day when:
_it would be as easy as just asking the computer to do something_
And yes, that means coding will become so easy that everyone would be a programmer. EVERYONE SINGLE PERSON, NO JOKE. Because everyone can talk with a computer now, not just someone who has a CS degree.
So what will a person with a CS degree do? Definitely nothing creative. All the creative stuff can be done by just talking with an AI to do the exact creative thing. A CS degree holder will be like an electrician as Tech Lead mentioned. They will do maintenance work when something fails within the system, ever so rarely. A normal, unremarkable job.
How can you be remarkable (the most creative) in this field considering everyone knows how to code? Remember, as a programmer, learning languages was just an unnecessary step in order to get to the main task:
*problem-solving*
You must forget about the language, it's about the solving of the problems. That's what matters. Can you take any impossibly difficult task, and somehow break it down to its components and somehow solve each of them? I keep saying somehow because no one knows how to do this stuff. It's the creative aspect. You need a WIDE range of topics in your head that you play around with, to be able to solve a new problem. That is different skillset, but that is what will help you survive now.
This comment is underrated. You've pretty much summed up everything about programming and what makes chatGPT revolutionary in just a few short paragraphs.
Most people won't get what you're trying to say, but simply put it AI is gonna allow us to put more of our focus on creatively coming up with solutions to hard problems instead of building up to all the steps need to get there in the first place.
what field do u recommend
They already tried English based programming with Cobol and it is a mess. History repeats.
@@DJ-xp9bs what roles are better to focus now within tech?
I see where you want to go, giving the coding capacity to everyone. But the arguments are not really good. If you are into coding, you will know that the coding system allows you to tell a computer to perform a series of actions STEP BY STEP, in order to solve a simple or complex problem. Going from Assembly to C, and to C++ or Java or Javascript are just a matter of simplicity in the language itself, but the STEP BY STEP remained intact.
Let's say you want to parse a simple match stick puzzle equation string '3 + 9 = 5'. Your first step is to split the string into chars (or 1 length string). Second step is to loop through them. Other steps are to check if it can be parse to Number and turn it into a 7Segment Digit object in the equation Object or Class, check if it's a symbol to put it into an 5Segment Operator object. This way you can later represent them, and solve equation with Permutations of all segments on the digits and symbols.
If you use a package to parse it or solve it for you, then you reduce for example from 10, 100, 1,000 operations to 1 or couple of operations from your head. But that still doesn't remove the STEP BY STEP plan from your head.
With chatGPT coding, it's the first time they are removing the STEP BY STEP granularity, which means that, if you are a programmer, then good, but if not, you will be very limited in terms of flexibility in what your application can do as competitive. Remember that if all people can solve a problem, they won't get profit from it. There will always be a room for competition somewhere to make it viable. Probably later, chatGPT coding will become more flexible, but tougher algorithm experts will keep their place for a very long time.
I think we may be entering an entrepreneurial epoch. Someone wanting to do ecommerce with Shopify, for example, isn't going to want to mess around with something like ChatGPT, but a human freelancer or entrepreneur who works with the Shopify store owner could use something like ChatGPT to streamline their processes. With that said, people wanting to get a traditional job working for a corporation is going to face a lot of competition to be part of that small group of developers who oversee what something like ChatGPT is doing, and even they are going to be just quality assurance employees.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein
I didn’t spend four years in college but instead did a full stack boot camp and have expanded my knowledge of that. I build things for small businesses web apps websites etc. I’ve never had a job and have only half heartedly looked I started coding for entrepreneurial reasons.
Child prodigy you are...
Stop being half-hearted.
chatgpt will be replacing you soon
I don't see any problems for programmers. I work in a company with many public international clients (governments) and they need this special type of software and so they hire us for big multimillion euro projects over several months or years. ChatGPT could never ever handle such a project which requires heavy communication with the client and special skills. Maybe ChatGPT can create a website, but that's about it.
Chat Gpt is a tool. You missed the point
interesting point I myself used to have more clients buy because AI the jobs are decreasing and also getting less paid, for example a small team with AI can easily handle much of a company requirements, so they can take more jobs, and also others are doing the same, thats good for society but bad for programmers
Exactly the thoughts i been having on the matter. When people tell me their sci-fi level opinions of what in their minds is soon going to happen thanks to chat gpt's advent, i really can only think about the contrast between how overwhelmingly MONUMENTAL most engineering projects are and how braindead simple they make it sound like it is.
For people that actually do the work, its crystal clear that no matter how much those buzzy tools may improve our efficiency, there's no way it will remove the engineer operating them out of the equation.
What people forget a lot of the time is that you are paid to do something, because other people dont have time AND dont want to do it.
Aint no way in hell someone is going ti actually kick an engineer out to do the work themselves with chat gpt lol.
Companies will prefer those who can use chatgpt to create whatever the upper heads want over those who can't. And this won't necessarily make software engineers lose jobs, they're going to occupy positions that support those who "specializes" in chatgpt functionalities or whatever they may call it.
Agreed. It's good at creating things that already are coded online. Pong games etc. Stack overflow answers. It can customise them a little. But not very well. Try creating anything that is more custom, and it falls apart. It helps a little. It helps those who are coding boiler plate stuff in their work a lot. But they are not really the best paid or most skillful. Who understand it all.
Its gotten to the point where I don't know what to tell people to go into. I love the field but it seems like everything has gone down. I am not sure what I want to do next. I was confident in the tech field but now not so much, but everything seems to be going in this direction career wise.🙂
I am trying to learn now.... what do you think? Is it downhill from here?
you do realize the tech lead is being sarcastic right?
Go be a construction worker than, or a bartender those are so lucrative. This tech thing pff peanuts
You don't tell people anything. They have their own brain.
@@christoff124 he doesn't deserve to understand the levels of irony
its so much relive to hear this from someone who has seen and done so much in this field, i talk to collage students all the time and for some reason they all think a career in programming is a golden ticket to the good life. they always ignore all the challenges involved.
I'm a visual designer, have worked mostly in webs (talking about over saturated markets...) and I have been studying where to direct my work now, even thinking about changing career completely, everyone says about studying programming or jumping into the trend of AI or machine learning, but I think you're right, programming is not what it used to be, at least not to earn money, of course whoever has the dream of programming a video game or specific software goes ahead, but if it's just to earn money, I think there are better opportunities.
I'm going for video editing for the moment, and I will try to incorporate AIs into my work as much as possible, even if only to keep up, I'm thinking of making content about it as well, I believe that in this time of rapid change, opportunities will present themselves, we need to keep the eyes open.
is video editing good?
I knew I wanted to work with computers when I was 10. I was the best programmer in my class through to college. Then once I actually got a job, after just a few years of coding, I was discouraged from growing further that way because coders were not needed. All the coding roles were getting outsourced, but they wanted me to be a communicator instead. Then later the heavy outsourcing changed and we ended up with a shortage of developers making me regret not staying technical. Now, I just want to do something creative. AI enables creativity, so I feel pretty good.
This industry man, seriously... it changes so brutally fast
I havent tried ai art, because i like drawing, but im learning blender on my free time and a game engine. Might play around with it just for the joy of making things come to life in my screen.
Enjoy your creative endeavors fella 🙌
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@@SeaSerpentLevi "I haven't tried ai art because I like drawing" this is what I don't like about ai. I'm a musician. Sure, I could use ai to create music but is that me being creative or the ai? One could argue you have to be creative with the prompts but come on... A text prompt that takes 10 seconds is not nearly the same as actually creating music yourself and expressing yourself in melody. However when songs can be made in ten seconds will there be value for those that take months to finish? It's quite disheartening to think about
@@1901elina Who tells the AI what kind of sound to produce? You!
Now who's creative the guy who generates the idea or the guy who draws the idea as specified by the guy with the idea?...
One thinks while the other moves the brush.
Look, Your creativity (of what you want) determine the output of the AI.
The AI simply let's you execute on your idea asap, also you can make necessary changes if needed.
If you are talking about public consumer end, probably. But there are tons of programming jobs in the business backend and operation side. Software development is not just looking into the FANG dimension where the general mass is their main target.
Moreover, consumers are difficult to deal with and are poor, mostly.
The money is made in enterprises.
Great humor sprinkled in with actual useful advice. Love it
Hi! I really enjoyed the video. Insightfull feedback. I'm learning programing in University and I think that it still has potential, more precisely, APIs. As you've said, companies are reducing their access but there are other small ones who don't. There's a service/software solution that gives access to theit data through REST, and I know from professionals that use that service that there's no solution that integrates with them, so they have to do a lot of things manually. Mainly, inserting data. I'm basically talking about a SaaS business so again, I'm back at the things that you said. Firstly, this is no "big" thing that makes you populat and creates millions. Secondly, behind what I'm pitching is basically the spirit of entrepreneurship, monetizing a good idea, the means just happens to be programming. I find your idea of Social Media OS really interesting so I'm deffinitely looking forward for more videos on that from you. Thank you, once again.
It is much easier than that: the golden age of the IT field was largely due to enormous financial bubbles created by free money with negative interest rates. Once the financial bubble bursts, IT jobs disappear, leaving countless unemployed individuals and resulting in low salaries. This is what is happening now.
I was blue collar worker for most of my life and started to learn smth to transition to white collar. But it seems, blue collar will soon take over anyway :D
8:17 Oh my Goodness he nailed it!
I went to college from 2004 to 2009 and got a Degree and a Minor too, then I did some “ finding myself” for a few years then went to school again for IT in 2011, luckily I went on a study abroad to Japan.
Supposed have been for 9 months but I hit the ground running failed two classes but found work and a wife and got a job at start up using some web application for kids I slapped together while teaching, they gave me some school to manage and then a few thousands to start my own school.
I bring in less than a teacher in America but I got experience of opening and managing a brand.
I’ll be poor but I think I’ll be a poor person’s leader lol.
It’s a blood bath out there!
If you didn’t get good connections growing up or from school are talented and lucky
It’s just drudgery and depression.
For me it’s drudgery minus depression 😅
It still hard to find in these days a qualified eletrician, or a stone mason, a pipeliner or whatever. Compromissed people are rare to find even in the most simple labors/services. U can still make the difference doing whatever u've been doing.
MAN! that video was dope, i'm into programing for 14 years now, and i recently got my eye on roblox because of my son and i thought what a cool idea to have a way for people to crate games in their platform and how those game were with new content, were simple and kids were all hypping in it, i thought to myself i might need to focus on that.
Hi. I am kind of new to all of this and have watched a few few videos, but I have not yet seen a video of such a down to earth, honest, humble person like yourself.
You can tell the generosity and the genuine personality you obtain straight away, straight forward, right to the point.
Absolute Legend you are Sir.
I don't know if you read these comments, but you hit some serial nails on the head, and I think this is what distinguishes your channel. You're honest, brutally honest, in a way a good friend or parent would be. In this case, you seem to understand young adults are struggling and you're candid about top earners, something everyone wishes to be.
Can you make a video on how to position yourself best for the future, on how to orient yourself towards making an enterpreneur? How do you recognize trends, how do you jump on them? How do you become independent?
Thanks for your content!
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Don’t drink the kook aid, bro.
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12:00 is when I tuned in. I’ve been in IT over two decades, quite a bit of what you said is what I’ve seen. Cyber security seems to be a hot market right now and I would have loved for you to discuss that.
Social media as an OS is one of the most honest things I’ve heard in a long time and why I subscribed. Please keep the content coming!
"Social media as OS" is actually something that FB already tried 7-8 years ago, when it was still atop the world. It released a low-end device that was essentially a browser, but focused purely on FB's web site.
Hello.
The timing of the massive layoffs in tech industry. Coincides with the release of a.i.
And these companies realize and know they won't be needing so many employees.
Fax
Good luck.
I learned to program to build my own business. And I love solving problems. Don't get distracted.
It won't save us, true, but it will definitely help us.
Best of success in your new ventures.
Programmer here, doing entrepreneurship for the bucks. I think the difference with coder -> entrepreneur between now and then is that now you need to get into business management, design, marketing and sales. Which means you need to learn psychology and statistics / data science.
Although knowing coding really helps automating processes and gives you a birds eye view on the product you're building.
Great video! I am trying to develop an audio plugin, my use of chatbots like gpt or claude is mainly to gather informations/videos that can be useful for a specific task, but who knows what's going to happen in the next years
I like it. And the beat goes on!
Good ideas, put them in motion for us.
Completely agreed with you about the absence of open public access to the data. Data is the main product nowadays to generate the revenue, while software is just a tool. And cool apps are just a “lollipop” to gain attention on (either to earn more or to distract from actual problem). However, in the world where medical services still far from been automated, accessible and qualitative… or governmental services are rather unclear and run by web sites from 90’s… it’s pretty strange to hear that apps or websites not needed. In fact, it’s maybe isn’t a shiny toy for silicon valley corporations anymore, but their opinion is not a big deal for the world.
I've been talking to my son who is going to college soon and your insight and information has been invaluable. Thank you so much
you really shouldnt take this guys advice seriously
What do you recommend
@@David-kj1vm i recommend to do whatever you want to do, imo half of the jobs dissapear soon anyway. We should just to be flexible and universal, I believe that you could make money everywhere, in every industry, you just have to be smart, creative, and hella good at things you do. Greetings from CS studies ; )
He's correct, but I'd like to understand the reason. We are currently entering a new era of technological advancements, transitioning from manual to digital methods. This is similar to the impact of the typewriter, which led to the creation of professional typist jobs. However, when word processors emerged, everyone could type for themselves, and the typist profession disappeared.
The same applies to app developers today. With the rise of no-code platforms and artificial intelligence, anyone can create an app, making the coding profession less significant. Moreover, the technology boom has come to an end. Tech startups are going bankrupt, and non-tech corporations never required a large number of developers to begin with.
Coding should always be a complementary skill next to something more solid and stable such as mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering etc.
shhhh u making too muh sense
or something that gets you bitches and massively elevates you relative to your field, like data journalism
Software engineering requires zero knowledge of mathematics, physics, or mechanical engineering. I don't know a single non-AI/ML developer who uses math more complex than algebra in their work. If someone wants to go into those fields specifically, then they should get a degree in math or physics, but that's totally unrelated to software development.
True...
If you want a career, don't go into maths or physics. Engineering yes.
Amazing review of coding today and the prospect for tomorrow.
I am planning to do Masters in Computer science as someone with no STEM background. This video didn't discourage me, very informative and thought provoking indeed.
Truthful Mondays . thank you Techlead !!
Coding career is tough. When you have a critical bug and all the eyes are on you to resolve it, you simply don't sleep until that problem is solved....and sometimes it's not obvious to solve that problem and that's why you get paid the big bucks in exchange for your sleep.
Very good video, my friend! With great approaches of the subject.
Great video. That is what I have suspected it too so far.
This video is like opening my third eye
❤
And then poking it 😂
@@searchindex3438 bro fr 😭
I recently started using Chat GPT while coding(Java and PHP). One thing I noticed, in just a day that I saved almost 3 days of work.
It's just like Stack Overflow and Google but better. As I already know how to build the app itself, Chat GPT just writes the codes for me and I tweak them and fix them for my environment.
By the way, I'm a Software Engineering student. Getting into the University I noticed most of my classmates are not good at programming. But I had about 4 years of experience and I did well in all the tests in the first semester, so because of their interest I created a web app where I teach them basic programming for some fee, and I am building the Android app for that.
From my experience, I think Chat GPT is a great tool for us. It saves us a lot of time. Sure it writes shitty codes too, but if you are a good programmer you will know it just by seeing the code, then just tweak it or see for other ways.
Also... My motive was never getting the 'Great Job'. I enjoyed programming ever since I was in high school. But now, not gonna lie I am trying my best to be better to be able to get a decent job.
It's good at boiler plate stuff that is already coded online. I've been a pro coder for a number of years and started way back in the 1990s writing for games companies. I have also been working on AI coding tools myself recently. There's a lot of improvement to be done. In real world coding situations outside of exercises for exams - it does not help that much - as it stands. It's a time saver to save looking it up on SO. But if anything it raises the ball. You have to really understand what is going on. There is still a big demand for better custom software. The AI coding tools will improve. Hard to predict how fast, but not likely as fast as many seem to think. It's giving an illusion of being more intelligent that it is at the moment. Most of the work in involved in coding is not automated. Lots of big problems to solve in AI. The current AI is not doing much that fancy. But the investment in it could improve it. Big tech was woken up. So it's unpredictable. AI is a good field to be in right now.
@Manuscript Films Agreed, I was saying the same thing, it helps writting codes, but the programmer must know everything that is going on.
The app I was building is progressing faster than my previous projects, much faster. The reasons are,
1. I no longer have to search and look for solutions on stack overflow over and over again, I just pasted the error messages and added some of my assumptions about why that occurred what I would normally use to search on google, and it answers with code, also I can ask it to make the code match my use case.
2. Code editing, for big arrays to multiple Map/Hasmap keys, to value files, It can edit any entry for me. Saves a lot of time.
For now, it's okay I guess.
Can you understand now how Chat GPT is good in a hand of Software Architect or Senior Software Developer. They making code much faster now. One day of work is now becoming 2 hours of work. What that means for your future? Now a days one Senior can replace 3 or more Seniors with Chat GPT improving their efficient, but on the other hand demand for apps and software are decreasing
For real business applications rather than university coding it will not be so useful, but still can save you 20-30% of your coding time. Please bear in mind though that programmers read code 5 times more that write the new code.
The real opportunities are the ones no one is talking about, so observe, observe, observe.
Or create your own. This is very difficult and most ideas/businesses fail. When staring a business learn from people who have already run a business - successfully(learn from your boss if you can, etc). Being lucky enough to have mentors skyrockets your chances of making it(it's like an apprenticeship). Start with already having learned majority of the skills needed - hopefully getting paid while learning.
I found it really strange moving from australia to the US and be making such an insane amount of money for what is considered a trade skill at home. I was always an analyst, programmer or developer and from my experience this nomenclature is pretty normalized outside of America. Given the wild west nature and general lack of discipline of software 'engineers' that I've worked with, even to this very day, still have a hard time with the 'engineer' term.
So, maybe it's more like the self congratulatory, homogenized counter culture of nerd-dom is regressing to something that was more status quo a decade or two ago. Gold Rush times are over, friend.
I'm learning Rust... the program for the future. OOP with C type performance. Get in the ground floor of the next gold rush.
@@raylopez99 How is it different from all the other "it's like C but better" languages...
You're comparing apple to oranges. Average tech jobs in Sydney, Australia still pay more than the same jobs in Utah, USA. But if you compare Sydney to Silicon Valley of course Sydney is going to seem very low.
Yup take India for example there's a flood of programmers. its literally like common knowledge
“Engineer” is a fake Silicon Valley term, we’re all “developers” at best and realistically mostly “Web Programmers”
I have no fears for you. Nerd or not, you have an excellent brain. Exceptional articulation; a rapid flow of well-constructed, thoughtful words, devoid of pauses. That's rare, impressive and valuable.
Articulation, yes but thoughtful not quite.
thnx for the analyze but we dont care about the picture, we need the core of his idea
While GPT AI and other advanced artificial intelligence models have the potential to automate some programming tasks and improve developer productivity, it is unlikely that they will completely replace programmers.
AI can assist with code generation, debugging, and even optimization, making it a valuable tool for developers. However, AI is not yet capable of fully understanding human intentions or complex requirements. Moreover, programming involves creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking, which are skills that AI cannot replicate to the same extent as humans.
AI and automation may change the nature of programming jobs, making some tasks obsolete while creating new opportunities in other areas. Programmers will need to adapt and learn new skills to stay relevant, but there will likely always be a need for human expertise in software development. Collaboration between AI and human programmers can lead to more efficient development processes and innovative solutions.
Funny how you have forgot how an exponential curve looks like. Ai will be several times smarter than it is now in just a few years. This wont just remain as a "cool new tool to help programmers get morw productive" soon it will be better than programmers in almost anything.
@@oranges557
AI will be better than literally anyone in doing anything. What else is new?
I dont think so. I think very soon you will just specify the requirements, and the AI will generate the full project from a wireframe. Maybe you need some adjustment here and there, but that will be it.
Developers are irrelevant. Coding will be replaced by AI within a few years
The entrepreneur still needs to be a bit of a technician
Nah
People believe more things than they understand just bullshit them
Going back to school for my 2nd degree in social work. The IT job reqs for intro positions are insane. AI can spit out more code in a second than I could type in an hour.
I quit social work and went back into coding 😂 but I've only ever worked freelance cos I found 9-5 development jobs soul-crushing
It's funny, in college I always felt that I wouldn't like being a software engineer. I loved math and by extension algorithms, data structures, theoretical computer science and programming, but always thought that I would be giving up those really cool subjects to be a standard developer, developing whatever business application my boss wanted me to. Fast forward to now, working as a software engineer, and I'm honestly enjoying it. I know I'm not going to get rich doing it, I never really thought I was going to, I honestly just wanted to learn something interesting in college and math / programming fit like a glove. I've been mulling over going back to school for a graduate degree in math or comp sci (maybe applied math, computational math, AI / data science, even pure is an option) but whether I go back to school, keep working as a software engineer or go into another industry entirely doesn't matter all that much. At the end of the day I chose STEM because it's fun, and I'm content with that.
Cool, bbut have you or anybody you know ever used a Laplace Transform, a Fourier transform, or a FFT in code? I hear they're used in programming games, I guess in order to make working with simple differential equations easier, or to make a difficult time domain equation map into another frequency domain equation that's easier to work with.
@@raylopez99 I get what you're saying, but I see it differently. I could work as a developer for the rest of my life and never use these concepts in a professional setting, yet enjoy them nonetheless.When I started programming and getting deeper into math, I did it for two reasons: 1. it was fun to do and 2. it would get me a job. The fun of playing around with ideas and tinkering with things is what keeps me engaged, not necessarily what I do from 9-5.
thats the thing. most folks aka nerds loved programing they even did it on their spare time. but folks just wanted a quick high paying job. behold bootcamps
@@takoflame4948 I think it's a matter of finding what you really like as well. For example, I like building things enough, but I wouldn't say that's my passion. My passion is solving problems and understanding complex topics. Software engineering satisfies that for me right now, if it ever doesn't I can always pivot to another career.
@@immortalpuffin6643 would you recommend software engineering to someone that loves math
I got my first coding job in 2019, i was excited after working for 4 years and 2 layoffs, i feel kinda burned out. But any wfh job beats the meat grinder, so i will still code.
bro, half the wfh jobs ARE the meat grinder 😭
@@Spacenoidx lol when you have to sit in an office and pretend to work for 8 hours or relax at home, with no one breathing down your neck
So true!
My friend is a software engineer...
He refused to take any classes in physics, so NASA passed on him...
He worked at EA Sports, but they let him go...
His coding job paid $60.00 an hour, but they off loaded their coding projects to India where $15.00 an hour pays for the same work..
Podcasts are great! 🎙️
Yes, I´m refactoring legacy code on maintenance mode. 😄
The more I think about this the truer it is
Don't think about it then...
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It's just random BS
@@raylopez99 ignorance is bliss
In my lifetime, careers have changed dramatically in IT. I had to keep moving from the edge of the envelop to the edge of the envelop of projects whilst changing my role several times to keep myself in a good job. It got worse as I approached retirement. Now, it's best to be creative than technical unless you are really good and really focused like a chess grand master. Otherwise, you'll go nowhere and won't earn a good living playing chess like 99.99% of chess players. However, 5% of creative people can do really well in this world.
Fascinating content. Ty
Exactly the reason i keep watching this content. No overhyped bullshit, just a critical analysis. Actually I agree with you. ChatGPT is just a tool not more. I remember when people where mindblown by google, it was not that long ago. Did google make us all rich?!
YEAH , IT'S tool , but with chatgpt / GPT4 Work that should be done by 100 people can be done by 20 people now
So the other 80 people are retired
@@onlyyoucanstopevil9024 I don't think so. For my experience, ChatGPT is just a smarter version of search engine, not something real revolutionary. What it can do is just fitting a mass distribution from big language databases and then predicting its own sequence. The results from pretrained transformers are stochastic, vulnerable and full of mistakes. It just make up nonsenses when the question-result pairs cannot fit into the distribution. Any company concerning precise businesses should be careful about ChatGPT. These AI models still need a long way to be real artificial intelligence.
It’s not about chatgot or gpt4 or midjourney, they are basic at the moment. It’s about seeing the huge black cloud in the horizon coming towards you and you getting the urge to hide. And yes, A LOT and i mean A LOT of people got rich from google. I don’t even understand why you tried to compare them
I'm 16 and I was ready to go into Computer Science but seems like during lockdown everyone did some bootcamp and wanted to work in tech, now the job market is flooded, AI is developing fast and ready to replace the junior positions, I'm thinking in what to study in University.
Still do computer science.
Still do Computer Science. If anything--with the rise of AI, it will be the only degree that makes sense in the next 20 years.
Maybe hedge with Physics / Engineering in case hardware becomes all the hype
Im from Japan, here Computer Science was never that popular like in the US, most respected degrees here are Medicine, Law and maybe Mechanical Engineering from top universities, I was interested in CS mostly because of western youtubers(most english I know I learned in youtube) here in Japan nobody really cares about programming...
Don't do computer science. Programming basics will become a mandatory skill for most professions. Do something else where you can integrate your programming skills.
You made me think. I see apps akin to restaurants. There is many for each cuisine in each location. Some are good, some are staple and some bad.
Another great demotivating video! Good work!
Businesses would still need there websites to be launched and maintained.. sure lot of them will not just ask Ai to maintain there website.. so this business will still be there I hope
I got out of programming and became Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect because programming jobs are being outsourced over seas
Thank you sir for this info.👍🏼👍🏼
Nicely explain , never lost hope
Not everyone can be a content creator, people need to consume the content.
There's probably money in that...like peanuts. Reminds me when I lived in LA and I was asked to join a "focus group" that would pay you a small amount of money to sample something...I never went, was too busy making coin. Now that I'm retired I would go.
other content creators
You have to learn to think big, it's the only way to be a coder today. Local thinking means obeying the general trend of things, or working for someone else.
good time to consider a physical job in the supply chain . and do it well .
To answer your question Techlead, I'm not coding anything. And I can't say this video was an inspiration to do so! But it gave me other business ideas. Thanks, always interesting to watch your videos.
Great content
If you want to earn an exceptional income, for whatever reason motivates you - there are really only two paths. Sales or entrepreneurship....
and ransomware -- you forgot ransomware
@@compilererror you better live in russia then
@@luxraider5384 well it's common is Russia to insult you three times -- being in Russia is in fact an insult -- let me demonstrate: Твоя мать живет в России с тремя дохлыми рыбами, пахнущими тухлыми дохлыми морскими существами.
@@luxraider5384 it's a silly joke from a book I read on Russian insults -- please don't take it personal
@@compilererror i was just joking over the fact that in russia you can freely randomware the west without going to jail
From my observations growing older through the various revolutions, it seems that businesses going bust leading to financial loss for many people is an inevitable part of a healthy economy. But people stay sane when they focus on the journey; like someone buying an expensive new car, ignoring the heavy depreciation in the first year because they can afford to.
The Golden Age of programming is gone 😢
Long live The Golden Age of Programming...
There may be something else yet on the horizon.
people said that too when compilers were made available
I think AI failed to replace it
Thats what happens when everyone thinks they can be the next mark zuckerberg
Love the positive enegy 😂😂
no sugarcoating here
Sarcastic energy 🎉
Don't think programming is dead, it is definitely evolving. Chat GPT can generate good code scarily fast however it's still dangerous for non programmers to use it. Without the base understanding or the concepts, it's still gibberish to most. Stuff that we're used to and can abstract out is where others would give up.
I think it's more likely we're at the start of a new age where our creativity can now be enhanced and realised faster than ever before in multiple languages at the touch of a prompt. It's brilliant writing something out and then saying now do that in c# or python and you have it exactly in seconds.
The future is for the creative more than ever.
ChatGPT makes my coding job easier.
I don't want to write code .
but I want to make new business, make new service.
so I need to write code by myself.
ChatGPT makes me focus on business more.
Pure coding job will be shrinking.
@@chickenheart7615 coding is literally the funnest part goddamn it
@@reroman3950 I can understand it. but coding itself would make less money or no money.
@@reroman3950 The ideas you build with your code, and figure out how to solve the problems is the best part of coding.
The more you code the more you feel like your just typing until you get to that end goal. Why AI is so great for creatives with great ideas, but didn't know how to start or how to build in the first place.
I agree with you very much.
Ai cannot STOP the innovative man. Me personally I'm an artist and AI is trying real hard to replace us. But the human touch is STILL needed. To all my programers keep pushing!!
To all my carriage drivers keep pushing
Reality is sad bro. Just have to realize that, and change paths. I recommend sculpting out of marble. Digital art is dying out but real art isn’t going away anytime soon
@@Itsshadowgod yeah carriage drivers in major cities are getting mad bank for date nights.
so true about the API's ... I need an open API for Instagram...got such a cool app I wanna make 😞
I've definitely been coding in "maintenance mode" for too long, have to do something more interesting soon (one more paycheck and I'm out lol)
Good luck brother 🙌
I love this guy! He keeps me so fuc**** entertained.
It's created for poor people 😊