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  • Unfortunately, like many jobs in the past, ours is changing.

    I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know what the future hold.

    All we can do is be informed about LLMs and futur techs, produce the best outputs with the constraints we have and hope for the best.

    Keep your skills up to date, and hopefully find a job where LLMs aren’t shoved down your throat. Or pivot towards something else.

    Coachmen had to learn a new job, and it might be our turn.

    I don’t hold a lot of hope for the next few years. It’s gonna be rough. All we can be is ready to the best of our abilities.


  • You know why the code is wrong because you have the experience to see where the issue is and what it is.

    If you’ve learned coding with LLMs from the start, you won’t acquire the experience needed to be able to tell what is wrong.

    I’ve worked with a client that tried to generate code for a HCI bluetooth device, trying to recreate the full Bluetooth stack, instead of picking the right product from the start, with a working stack.

    And that was a client that had technical knowledge, just not for Bluetooth and HCI.

    And if you try to tell the AI what’s wrong, it will create bullshit code until it kinda works, adding more issues along the way.

    I’m sure that AI will replace coders one day, but LLMs aren’t AI and they are neat ready to write decent, complex code.


  • Croquette@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlIts not looking good..
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    There is certainly a big part that can be attributed to imperialism, but my (uneducated) pet theory is that technocrats were able to harness the accessibility of big data after the great recession to siphon wealth from working class a lot more efficiently, by radicalizing people.

    There had been a big leap from 2005 to 2015-2016 on computing power that enabled the widespread of big data and the corpos with the means to get in on it used it to further enrich their corporation and themselves and created this extremely toxic environment where everything is polarized and monetized.

    And with big data, populists can change in real time their message so that they get more money and influence. And tribalism seems to work pretty fucking well. So they finetuned their message to radicalize people and achieve that goal.

    People can isolate themselves into online communities that will echo and amplify their views of the world. And now they are pouring on the streets because they’ve became enough of a big group to do so.

    Technocrats created this big machine to get rich, and the machine feed itself, giving more power to the ultra rich, which grab more power and influence by radicalizing people.








  • To be fair, the phone experience of increasingly more companies is just fucking terrible.

    Menus over menus. Trying to get to speak a person that isn’t from India is pretty fucking hard. You usually arrive at a voicemail and don’t know when you will hear from them.

    Might as well cut the bullshit and find a straight forward experience online instead.


  • My reason asking is because there are other scheme I feel are more adequate for non relational data, but this isn’t my domain and I barely dabbled in that, so that’s worth absolutely nothing.

    But your point about the data being used later makes a lot of sense and I didn’t think about that. Down the road, someone will ask you to create links to your data and if you already have a DB, then you don’t have to change the whole infrastructure to accommodate that. You can create new schemes and already have a somewhat functional access to it.

    Thanks for the input.




  • I do understand that the DNC has complete control. We’ve seen many example of that, the most egregious being Bernie vs Clinton.

    US society is fundamentally to the right and the DNC will keep it that way.

    That creates an issue where changing the Democrat Party will take a long long time. So the better option would be a real left party, but that would mean that Republicans would be in power for a while, until the politcal landscape changes and stabilise with 3 parties. And that’s not accounting for the DNC that will work against the newly formed party.

    Denying that the DNC is neo-liberal to its core is deliberate ignorance.

    Any prominent member that has an ounce of progressism has to fight the DNC at every corner to get through, like we’ve seen Mamdani.

    Meanwhile, progressives should definitely vote for the Democrats. But this is a different issue. The vote turnout is terrible in North America (we have the same problem in Canada).