by morph123 on 3/17/23, 4:05 AM with 7 comments
I have had some motivational issues lately with regards to software development. In the past I used to really love programming.
Learning new frameworks, languages, paradigms. Building random things, cutting my teeth into all sorts of things from IoT to blockchain to ML. It always felt like an endless treasure trove of interesting problems to solve.
However after the whole generative AI thing I am finding it very hard to care. I have come to the conclusion that I like the craftsmanship portion of software dev more than the actual product I am making as odd as it sounds. Which generative AI obviously completely replaces. Is anyone in the same boat? How do you handle it?
by solumunus on 3/17/23, 5:15 AM
If your apathy comes from believing that much better models (which will render programming a pointless endeavour) are right around the corner then I just think you're buying into the hype and your prediction is way off. The current models are trained on all the data available, there is nothing more to learn from. As public information grows then the scope of answers will grow, and as models improve they will emulate human responses better. Will they get better at programming? They're only as good as the training data, which will ALWAYS be unreliable and full of errors or missing context, how could it be any other way?
by nicbou on 3/17/23, 7:41 AM
My love died the moment I was paid to build other people's stuff for 40 hours a week.
Now I use programming in support of other tasks and I can't get enough of it. It became fun again, like cooking for myself after quitting as a line cook.
AI feels rather useless to me. It can generate bullshit but it can hardly blaze new trails. It's great for dealing with the tedium, but not for solving problems that require a great deal of context.
by gwnywg on 3/17/23, 9:17 AM
When I feel like loosing motivation I go and play a few clashes [1], this always cheers me up :)
by matt3210 on 3/17/23, 4:35 AM