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__natty__today at 3:40 PM4 repliesview on HN

Software engineering - other fields of engineering are slightly less pathological


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ezsttoday at 4:28 PM

My side of the Engineering discipline is about designing and building plants (energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, ...), here standards are written from the blood of the killed or injured, engineers are very aware of it all, and yet, you should see how our C-suite get hyped by the LLM fad, and distributes promotions for whoever is the latest to find new ways to cut new corners or introduce unwarranted randomness in previously well established processes. It's awkward, to say the least.

ameliustoday at 4:49 PM

Only because those fields are not having their alchemy moment now.

paul7986today at 4:15 PM

After 17 years as a creative technologist, I’m studying to be a nurse. If you’re a web designer or developer who’s tried Muse and still sees a long-term career, I don’t get it. As tools like ChatGPT and Muse reduce the need to browse the web (Muse even shows you it's browsing the web for you), what will we be designing/developing? Muse already lets anyone create, publish, and host a website for free with no technical skills - just ask it and boom zero skill or effort to create a site. You may think I want my site to look good yet lol not many are going to see it. Now if Meta adds domain registration, your entire online presence could be live in minutes and to update content on your personal or business site just use Muse to do so.

Overall I think the web will just be the storage for our thoughts, businesses/transactions and etc for AI to access. Yet our thoughts/content that AI uses to keep itself relevant we need to be paid for.

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atemerevtoday at 5:34 PM

I had some exposure to architecture and structural engineering. I am so very sorry to disappoint you, but strictness there is much overhyped.