Personally I prefer my junior programmers well done.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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it's funny that some people think programming has a human element that can't be replaced but art doesn't.
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AI also isn't close to replacing other industries. They are both wrong.
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Definitely bait
Yeah DHH is a problematic person to root for.
I have mixed feelings about that company. They have some interesting things "going against the flow" like ditching the cloud and going back to on prem, hating on microservices, advocating against taking money from VCs, and now hiring juniors. On the other hand, the guy is a Musk fanboy and they push some anti-DEI bullshit. Also he's a TypeScript hater for some reason...
I take issue with the "replacing other industries" part.
I know that this is an unpopular opinion among programmers but all professions have roles that range from small skills sets and little cognitive abilities to large skill sets and high level cognitive abilities.
Generative AI is an incremental improvement in automation. In my industry it might make someone 10% more productive. For any role where it could make someone 20% more productive that role could have been made more efficient in some other way, be it training, templates, simple conversion scripts, whatever.
Basically, if someone's job can be replaced by AI then they weren't really producing any value in the first place.
Of course, this means that in a firm with 100 staff, you could get the same output with 91 staff plus Gen AI. So yeah in that context 9 people might be replaced by AI, but that doesn't tend to be how things go in practice.
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Thank you for your opinion.
Anyway.
We're still far away from Al replacing programmers. Replacing other industries, sure.
Right, it's the others that are cooked.
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I once asked chatGPT to write a simple RK2 algorithm in python. The function couldve been about 3 lines followed by a return statement. It gave me some convoluted code that was 3 functions and about 20 lines. AI still has some time to go before its can handle writing code on its own. Ive asked copilot/chatGPT several times to write code (just for fun) and it always does this