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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
(www.businessinsider.com)
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As a freelance dev it’s not quite as bad now but it’s insane to see that some of my clients think I got replaced by a machine now only to show me a buggy vibe coded mess of an app that is poorly designed and works half the time at best. I like some of the LLM tools but it’s important to understand their abilities and limitations especially in regards to future capabilities as there are hard limits to how capable they can become.
Way too many people think the tools are smart because they can „talk“ and these same people do not understand any of the underlying tech.
Some of my clients send ChatGPT written instructions now that are missing half the context of what I‘m actually doing.
I call it "Turing's Revenge" where, once the bot can pass the Turing test, we find out the hard way if humans are intelligent... and we appear to have a lot of failed models, mostly in management.
Reverse Turing test?
Holy cow. I'm stealing that. The reverse Turing test is whether we humans have the brains not to turn everything over to untrusted AI. Lol.
do you ever indulge with malicious compliance?