[mansilladev]

“…our cognitive abilities and creative capacities appear poised to take a nosedive into oblivion.”

Don’t sugarcoat it. Tell us how you really feel.

[jennyholzer]

I think developers who use "AI" coding assistants are putting their careers at risk.

[dguest]

And here I'm wondering if I'm putting my career at risk by not trying them out.

Probably both are true: you should try them out and then use them where they are useful, not for everything.

[010101010101]

Developers who don’t understand how the most basic aspects of systems they work on function are a dime a dozen already, I’m not sure LLMs change the scale of that problem.

[baq]

fighter jet pilots who use the ejection seat are putting their careers at risk, but so are the ones who don't use it when they should.

[flanked-evergl]

The future is increased productivity. If someone can outproduce you if they use AI, then they will take your job.

[falcor84]

I would say that the careers of everyone who views themselves as writing code for a living are already at great risk. So if you're in that situation, you have to see how to go up (or down) the ladder of abstraction, and getting comfortable with using GenAI is possibly a good way to do that.

[unethical_ban]

Were accountants that adopted Excel foolish?

Like any new tool that automates a human process, humans must still learn the manual process to understand the skill.

Students should still learn to write all their code manually and build things from the ground up before learning to use AI as an assistant.

[micromacrofoot]

everyone's also telling us that if we don't use AI we're putting our careers at risk, and that AI will eventually take our jobs

personally I think everyone should shut up