alt Hacker News20 year industry vet here. Yeah, no thank you. In the age of AI, developer productivity and job security will involve your proprietary workflow. It no longer makes sense to share your knowledge with the world.
I'd highly advise people don't do this.
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Two years ago, I'd consider this attitude as ungrateful. Today, this attitude is 100% correct and I slowly start to be like that.
People might think I'm a dick, I don't care, my tools, my knowledge, my job security. I actually recently thought of nuking the entire IaC setup and go back to shell scripts on random virtual machines. Too bad that Claude can figure things like that out pretty easily. Well, the world sucks now.
Exactly this. I've worked hard year after year, paid too much taxes, and still haven't gotten job security in return. Living costs are still rising.
No thanks to sharing anything for free.
Maybe once I have retirement levels of money, and when I'm not actually working for the money, I'll be interested in sharing.
I’ve felt for a long time that the things I loved when I first started programming aren’t really there anymore. This comment made me realize that world truly is completely gone.
There's zero chance you have some secret sauce a motivated employer / your replacement couldn't figure out (using AI) if they wanted to fire you.
> involve your proprietary workflow.
Until the next model update...
You should check the provenance and licenses of your dependencies -- I bet there's a few irrational gifts in there from the nerds in the "open source" community ;)
Or, in SVese: are you a taker or a maker?
This is really disappointing. I love programming community because they just share or open(-source) their knowledge with an absolute no cost. There's tons of resources about how to build a OS, DB, Apps, etc. I'm curious why would you think differently about AI workflows.
Exactly. In fact, hiring may be conducted almost entirely based on what kind of tools and skills you build that no one else really has access to.
20 years ? already vet ? I though that I'm still young :)
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I've also worked 20 years in the industry, and if feel completely the opposite. Having a great setup and pipeline that works for you is a huge plus, but nothing can replace the intuition and knowhow you have built up with experience. Sharing is still caring, and we should not stop caring