Almost feels like my brain is broken or some shit.
I’m looking at the pricing of houses in my area and comparing it to my salary, and how the actual fuck is anyone affording a house these days? We’re talking almost half a million for a house that takes <2 days to build and is practically an irl copy and paste of some of the homes down the street. What the actual fuck. It seems like I’m the only one (though I know I’m not) who sees how this is completely at odds with everything I learned about the world.
Also, so salaries. How the fuck are they determined? Because it certainly isn’t the result of how much actual work you do, I’m making nearly six figures and I do jack shit yet I’m supposed to just be OK with how morally repugnant that is, as if I’m not also a piece upholding the same utterly corrupt system as well?
Fuck if I know, I try to say this shit to people irl and they just tell me that the world’s not fair blah blah blah. Yeah homie, “not fair” is quite possibly the biggest understatement ever.
I very much understand what people say when they say that money is not real. Feel free to grill my complete ignorance of Econ too if you wish, maybe it’s just something I’ll never understand
Oh you’re 100% right. I can see the writing on the wall though, my company is gearing up for some big initiatives (“next generation” and “AI”) are the hot buzzwords right now, so it’s only a matter of time until I’m replaced by generative AI
You can say that, but they are literally generations of "AI" away from being able to make and tweak code properly. It's mostly an excuse to squeeze and harry programmers as labor, and try to freeze their salaries like everyone else's has been for the last 30 years.
At most, LLM will be like robots in a factory, great in some circumstances, but can only really take the burden of 10-20% of the market share, while you still.need someone who knows what they are doing to check and correct the mistakes the robot makes for the other 80-90%. It's either that or be satisfied with a sub-standard level of product, and while some companies may be ok with that, tech companies know that places in China and India wll eat their lunch on the international market if they don't keep up. Basically what they are going to try to make LLM's do is do more with less, and then use the excuse that you are now 'less skilled' than your predecessor (even though you still have to have the same or better skills to recognize and correct the mistakes of the LLM) to freeze your wages (which lowers them with inflation).