people might joke but this is where the IT industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
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@nixCraft exactly it is scary indeed. It's really clear to me, AI is here to stay. The progress in just nine months with AI agents is undeniable. It's going to change how we work and live. And it's so important we push for open standards and keep pushing for open source, to make it accessible for everyone.
@nixCraft What does Oracle do anyway?
Postgres is better than their database. They don't make profit on Java. Nobody uses their cloud. KVM is better than VirtualBox.
Maybe that's why they're firing people, not AI.
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@nixCraft Chilling stuff. And yet AI still has systemic reliability issues. Could you trust mission critical code written by AI?
@nixCraft Someone has to install and manage that hardware though.
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@nixCraft yes, but also even a cashier at Costco should make a living wage and not have their job looked down upon.
2028: ex-self-checkout supervisor, fired for 'not being attentive enough'.
Or maybe they will be issued guns and will be allowed to 'shoot them thieves' for <15$.
@nixCraft 2029: Court Jester for Robots - 2030: Bio-Pet for robots
It's wild having grown up in a time when massive amounts of effort was put into encouraging young people to become software engineers and get into computer science, and that cohort finally reaches an age where they're entering the job market or are well into a career and suddenly it's "Ehh, never mind. Sorry you built your life around this, we don't need your skills now."
@nixCraft Some big issues with this - the savings for the company are passed onto the tax payer in unemployment and support costs. Some if not most countries cap the amount of unemployment support people can get. If you are an older employee it may be impossible to work again - outcome more investers with superyachts and higher taxes for the populous! Unemployment through AI should cost the employer 5-10 years salary in tax. Issues down the line also involve the reduction of LLM data quality
@nixCraft this is just how capitalism operates. maximally optimizing work is the very thing that set it apart from the old ways of organizing society. what we are seeing now happening with IT workers is the same thing that happened with artisans and craftspeople of the older days: replaced by factories and highly specialized workers (specialized in the sense that any one of them can, for example, make a shoelace, or a strap, but none of them know how to make the entire shoe)
@nixCraft certainly looks like it.