Like it used to. Just like people programming their TI calculators in Z80 assembly for the fun of it (yes they still exist today), programming by hand will be a niche thing. Working in software will just mean prompting. >But AI is not good enough, it sucks!!!Stop coping guys, you know it's a matter of years before it becomes better than 99.9% of programmers. The plateau was supposed to happen in 2023. Then in 2024. Then in 2025. Then in 2026. And yet it keeps improving. It keeps replacing our brains and our hands. It's over and you know it. Softwares will be extremely cheap things, it'll cost nothing to have one developed by an AI.We could have been born 30-50 years earlier and be happy but well. That's how it is.
>>108845247Oh fuck, I always though it was an arm processor emulating a Z80 for the Ti basic and retro compatibility.May buy one if I find one for cheap.
>>108845247>The plateau was supposed to happen in 2023. Then in 2024. Then in 2025. Then in 2026. And yet it keeps improvingDo you actually use it? Because 2025-2026 it got dumber and more expensive. It did the plateau thing in late 2023 and peaked during summer 2024, when Sonnet 3.5 was released. Since then there was no measurable quantifiable improvement at all. People did some effort on glueing together a bunch of proven method and AI companies stole it and called it gay names like "agents" and "tools" and "orchestration". I know, because it was happening in front of my own eyes in real time. I was reading fresh experimental ideas and coming up with my own. Now you can download them in those CLI or desktop apps or VS Code clones.But yeah, it's been nothing new under the sun for years now.
>>108845459The one that just came out the other week is ARM but it's locked down so you can't do any kind of assembly.The last one was an "eZ80" which is kind of like the z80 286. It had this weird virtual z80 mode everything ran it like the 286's virtual real mode and then there was this special privileged mode that could address (I think) 24 bits of memory some how.I never bothered to learn it. Micro controllers that are more powerful cost nothing these days and have way friendlier dev tools. It's not worth fighting up hill to program an expensive toy the manufacturer doesn't want you on any more. It's literally easier to just build your own now.I miss the sense of communal struggle though.
>>108845247funny how this website used to be about questioning, but now seems to be assholes with money talking down to you and attempting to force some conservative or religious nonsense down your throatthe answer to you is no
>>108845517OP here. I hope you're right. Even if there is no more room for improvement (which I doubt desu), with the brain laziness and decline in standards that is happening, I feel like AI will be the best we have and we will have to rely on it. Because we'll have learnt to be lazy and stupid.
as a UI developer i’m not worried at all. it’s nowhere near good enough for professional work.
>>108845247You are literally cheerleading the demise of critical thinking and problem solving. Commit suicide you high mutational load freak.
>>108845739I'm simply depressed about it... Sorry for spreading my negativity here. I'd just like to be proven wrong.
>>108845697For me personally it solved the bullshit boilerplate problem, the config hell and the documentation nonsense.I can generate the initial structure based on vibes of the project, use the generic config that jest werks and use RAG on docs instead of reading it for hours with no result.Not to mention the lack of need to scroll through stackoverflow, which was mostly filled with irrelevant yapping.But yeah, all the agentic bullshit does not work without supervision. Frontend devs seems to like it, but their web slop is just as broken today as it always was, so nothing has changed there as well.
>>108845757git clone a huge project and then try to get an agent to build a substantial large new feature. then actually test and QA it.i think a lot of the doomerism comes from people seeing AI one-shot greenfields or 1:1 clean room implementations/language translations. most software work is not like that.the excessive doomerism on /g/ and xitter proves a personal theory i’ve always had that most of you are not actually employed at large companies, just mostly hobbyists and laymen. im not trying to be a dick btw.i do worry about losing my job but not because of AI improvements, but the massive and unprecedented (tens of billions of dollars) being poured into FUDing software engineers at the moment, and the impact that will have on executives and managers. i can definitely see a scenario where poor performers who embrace fully agentic workflows will keep their jobs while the actual people keeping the software running will get shitcanned and then eventually rehired.
>>108845760>>108845814thank you guys
