alt Hacker NewsYeah I don't understand that attitude. There are so many people on twitter who say things like that or "X industry is cooked" etc. All pushing that narrative hard. Why are there so many people pushing it so hard like that? Are they all under the influence of the big labs and it's all guerilla marketing? Are they bots? Are there a lot of people who have drunk the kool aid or suffering AI psychosis? Normally when new tools come out this doesn't happen. I can only think of a handful of times where I've experienced this in the past where someone has pushed something on me really hard (Ruby and Rust spring to mind).
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> Normally when new tools come out this doesn't happen
Normally, such new tools weren't a perfect fit for automating shilling and didn't involve trillions of dollars on the line.
There are a lot of people out there who really just don't like programmers, and would like to see them have less influence.
I don't mean that in the sense of "the world is against us". But the Googler walkouts from yesterday years were pretty embarrassing for a lot of executives and MBAs.
The culture has also never been kind to people in adjacent professions. I've met many designers and PMs who feel programmers are difficult to work with and walk over everyone else.
I think there are a lot of people out there who got one reason or another are excited that programming is now more accessible without the programmers.
There's the more positive angles as well, such as small businesses who've struggled to afford bespoke software. Now it's available to them cheaply, or at least cheaper than before.
This stuff isn't just a tool to make a carpenters life easier like a bench saw. It's available to everyone who's wanted a new wardrobe without the time and cost of something bespoke or hand made. AI is IKEA flat pack furniture. Cheap, easy, and surprisingly good.