There is no in between.

For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can’t avoid AI anymore.

It’s physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni.

I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain.

So I’m at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I’m a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs.

Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better?

Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, it’s the new reality. Now not using AI is uneconomical. The job is more focused on security, architecture, design, interacting with clients and a lot of code reviewing.

    The value you provide is being a gatekeeper, testing, QA, performance, maintainability and avoiding spaghetti. It’s a fundamentally different job and I think the learning curve has shifted a lot. Now the initial learning curve is very gentle but getting to the next level after vibe coding is a very steep curve because knowing what’s good code is hard and before came with tons of exposure to writing it.

    LLMs behave much better in clear simple easy to reason about codebases but spaghetti side effect codebases cause a lot of trouble. You can still absolutely write yourself into a corner with an LLM.