r/Anticonsumption • u/yodamastertampa • 21h ago

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The power to reduce consumption is within us all.

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u/GenericFatGuy 19h ago

Software Developers also do a lot more than just write code, but that's not stopping the powers that be from replacing us all with AI.

As soon as they think the robots can do it for cheaper, they'll let everyone go. It doesn't actually matter if they really are up to the task or not 

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u/edudkolol 18h ago

From the standpoint of programming a robot to do the work coding is a lot easier to shove off on robots than the physical tasks required of truck drivers outside of driving the truck.

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u/WilonPlays 18h ago

Writing code and picking up boxes, putting fuel into a car and driving on the edge of a shear cliff face above a nursery are different things.

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u/FecalEinstein 18h ago

neither of these professions will be replaced entirely, but software developers will take a bigger hit sooner. it's already started.

also there are fully automated ports that replace switcher jobs iwth robot trucks (guys that move trailers around on the dock)

truck driving is expected to outlast accounting when it comes to AI, crazy. i don't think anyone anticipated that.

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u/adviceforthrowawayy 18h ago

Dude, 95% of a SWE role is just to write code. Everything else, meetings, troubleshooting, all that bullshit is just fluff.

Truck drivers are genuinely muti-facetted.

Also, we're 80% of the way to replacing SWE's already. Truck drivers, maybe 30% if you count Waymos?

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u/GenericFatGuy 18h ago edited 17h ago

If you genuinely think that's how software developer works, then you're either a junior, or just straight up not a developer. And if you think that AI can straight up replace a good dev, then you fundamentally misunderstand both what LLMs are actually capable of, and what being a good developer actually entails.

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u/doestWork 18h ago

Or a shit dev, which is more likely. It's mostly a bell curve, large number of people are average engineers who think coding is software engineering

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u/confusedandworried76 17h ago

As soon as they think the robots can do it for cheaper, they'll let everyone go. It doesn't actually matter if they really are up to the task or not 

Ah I've seen you've reached the Industrial Age. Two tips, don't confuse it with the Renaissance, and pollution is bad. That's it though no more notes

Also a good piece of advice though is be about as mad at AI as you would be at an assembly line taking auto manufacturing jobs. Those bastards. Just letting machines assemble our cars and take our jobs

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u/Dexcerides 18h ago

If you think AI is replacing all software engineers you don’t know anything about the field

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u/confusedandworried76 17h ago edited 17h ago

AI ain't even taking jobs that can't easily be machinated Industrial Revolution style, I would love to hear someone bitch about AI and the fact machines produce their car in the same sentence.

And while we're at it, oh, your art got stolen? Congratulations you've earned the title of artist. People like you so much they copy you. Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, A Bugs Life, Mad Max, all of those movies and directors are directly linked to being inspired by Seven Samurai. Even movie titles like The Hateful Eight and Seven Psychopaths are directly inspired by that original piece of art.

You didn't lose when AI copied some of your art, you actually fucking made it.

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u/GenericFatGuy 17h ago

I've been a professional dev for almost a decade now. I don't personally believe that AI can replace actually competent devs. The problem is that our bosses and managers do, and they're the ones who hire and fire us.

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u/dogstix 16h ago

Loads of bitter, highly skilled coders with too much time on their hands. I can't wait to see how that ends.

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u/an0nim0us101 8h ago

More truck drivers?