Most enterprise software written by your colleagues is mostly cheap particle board crap.

At least IKEA furniture is usually reliable and does not fail catastrophicaly unlike the crappy bug ridden enterprise software we all have deal with...Jira, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, etc...

Mature AI will be better than the average mediocrity that calls himself a software developer.

If the average, mediocre software developer can address the issue of directory structure, interface design, general state management, edge cases and subtle assumptions it should be possible to train AI systems to address these issues .

Software development is not some mystical magical activity.

I remember people making similar arguments about autonomous driving...

IKEA furniture embodies many elements of good cabinet making but skips many nonessential elements. And does this more consistently than cabinet makers who can be bored, incompetent, depressed, burnt out, resentful, tired, having a bad day.

In the future AI code inevitably will embody most good software engineering practices. And will do this more consistently than software engineers who can be bored, incompetent, depressed, burnt out, resentful, tired, having a bad day.

Just look at the messages on HN or around you at your colleagues to see how mediocre the average software engineer is..

Today's IKEA is good enough for most people.

Tomorrow's AI coding will be good enough for most corporations.

Good enough to vastly reduce the need for fine craftsmen and women / software engineers.

Good enough to deskill those who call themselves cabinet makers / senior software engineers. These days the cabinet makers I personally know just do contract kitchens for project builders.

But IKEA is and AI will be, bad enough that at the high end with special requirements / taste / money / an inflated sense of self worth, some furniture makers still exist and thrive.

Perhaps 1% percent of current software engineers of today will be needed in the future when AI code inevitably has the ability to follow good software engineering practice.......

And as usual it will mainly be the mediocrities that remain ( so there is hope for you too ), with occasional islands of excellence.

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ie : clinically meaningless.

The company behind this, Novo Nordisk is increasingly desperate, as tirzepatide destroys the semaglutide revenue stream and the consequent job losses decimate the company

Completely misses the point of mediaeval philosophy.

As an avowed atheist, I find the works of the Blessed Duns Scotus and St Thomas Aquinas intellectually fascinating.

Google continuing to ship generations of Gemini using its mediocre teams is an existence proof of that

For genuine advances one needs the Hintons and Vasvanis, not yet another bunch of mediocre Kookaid drinking product managers at Apple and Google

The fees are well over USD $150,000 a year.

Philips Exeter (Zuckerberg's school ) is a bargain by comparison at $80,000 s year .

These schools emphasis clear and analytical thinking and traditional education.

In contrast the unfortunate children of the poor are subjected to everyone technology and education trend of the moment...

Education in public schools has turned into AI slop being generated by poorly educated teachers.

The poor get machine manufactured education and these days AI generated quasi-educational slop.

As always the children of the rich and powerful get bespoke education... You could call it elegant education for a more civilized age...

Large lumbering enterprise with massive inertia. Where innovators leave as soon as they get a better offer.

None of the authors of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper are still at Google.

Fast forward a decade and Google will be reduced to hiring the kind of mediocrities who deign to work at IBM and Accenture.

Commenting about slaughtering animals for entertainment in a thread about picking berries is crass to the point of revulsion.

Schools for the poorer segments of society keep adding more and more technology, eroding the analytical skills of their students and staff. But the shiny things keep the poorer parents and mediocre teachers happy while keeping down cost per lesson per child. This keeps the administrators happy.

Meanwhile ultra-expensive elite private schools for the children of the Zuckerbergs, Al Sauds, Al Nahyans, where the teachers are Ivy and Oxbridge graduates emphasise tradition, classical studies and analytical skills while relegating technology to a minor role

As always the children of the rich and powerful get bespoke education... You could call it elegant education for a more civilized age...

Way to ruin something good .

Pity about the USA....

Incidentally, I do not use an IDE, I use vim and emacs.

I do not use Stackoverflow. That is for the third raters.

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Posting a link to AI slop about a mess of AI vibecode is not contributing.

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