And maybe more importantly, not everyone benefits from CBT! Sometimes people are unhappy because there's deep emotional work they need to do first.

Besides, there is a way to transcend that unhappiness. I've seen people meditate their way out of it, but it takes years of study and discipline. The only reason why every psychiatrist doesn't tell you to start doing it is you can't just tell someone to work hard at something, they have to want to do it themselves.

This is prime time. This is what I'm currently on earth to solve. I'm going to enjoy the process of trying to defeat it. Amor fati.

Of course, you don't have to think that way. But you're going to have one problem or another, either way, and that mindset shift just makes everything feel less hopeless and more in control, even if the problem persists for now.

Note that comic is about a task that AI has already conclusively solved...

The thing that concerns me, however, is that just a year ago it was only useful for doing things like reminding me how to read in a file. Now it's at the level of a competent junior, who can almost do the whole task from start to finish but needs a little supervision.

All the AI companies are retaining the messages we're sending to their agents to train the next models. I wouldn't be surprised if the agents will be able to do what I'm doing in a year or two.

UPDATE: I'm getting a lot of replies to this thread and while I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I have to ask if a lot of them aren't rooted in denial... it's been a hard adjustment process for me too.

You should be happy for them.

I have no doubt China can catch up but to say the US isn't in a competitive position is absurd.

In the US, why make a scrappy small model when a big tech company will pay you a stupid salary for working on their big one?

How is that a "tin foil hat" argument? That's how competition works. You want to make your competitors stumble and fall.

Not sure if the degree itself is necessarily that helpful beyond signaling intellectual competence.

If they get to the point where they're smart enough to make tasteful code decisions based on stakeholder input... we're cooked as a profession.

Right now I'm only having to direct to enforce good taste. Write tests, don't write an unnecessary function.

It does everything else practically. Presubmit, debugging, commit message generation, commit approval... it's happening.

Who is the "we" who is going to shut it down? Certainly not the US government. Nor the Chinese government w.r.t. their tech industry. Are you going to start the insurgency? Is there going to be an equivalent one in every developed part of the world?

I'm using the internal Google tools and it's helping me write code much faster too, but it still takes time. I could make the CLI tool I work on faster, but no one cares except the end users, and their minor concerns have no impact on our internal politics.

At the end of the day you have to do what you're paid to do, unfortunately.