Ok let’s give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I’m a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write “good” code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don’t sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I’m not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I’m sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive…

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    10 months ago

    Honestly, if I was still working in C++ I would be more worried about the language being replaced than about AI.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      2·
      10 months ago

      I got started in C, worked for years in professional C++ development, and after having worked in other languages for a while I tried to go back to it for something just recently, and this was about my reaction.

      .first and .second
      const
      OO constructs but manual memory management
      Templates

      Dude just get me the fuck out