The AI is taking our jerbs thread

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Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all

: 'When we look at the economic outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'

www.theregister.com

It will replace jobs just not yet, those economists.fail to understand that as each month's passes the A.I becomes more precise and more knowledgeable, but like everything it takes time. I believe there a 5 to. 10 year window then you'll see less jobs in areas that require knowledge and information.

 

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Well, I've been spending this week re-engineering a React application that the CEO of the startup I joined managed to build entirely using Claude.

It's definitely super powerful in that he was able to pull something together without any coding knowledge, sufficient to put a pitch together and get funding. Now it needs a software engineer to tidy it up. I have deleted a LOT of stuff

On the other hand, I've not touched javascript or UIs for over a decade, but using Gemini 2.5Pro and Continue I've been able to get up and fully productive in a couple of days, and part of that was building a linux VM to work in. Genuine timesaver.

I'm going to build out the context docs so the LLM adheres to the patterns I've been implementing, pretty confident I can make it so CEO can adjust things without it totally ****ing the bed in future.

 

[Azza]

Well, I've been spending this week re-engineering a React application that the CEO of the startup I joined managed to build entirely using Claude.

It's definitely super powerful in that he was able to pull something together without any coding knowledge, sufficient to put a pitch together and get funding. Now it needs a software engineer to tidy it up. I have deleted a LOT of stuff

On the other hand, I've not touched javascript or UIs for over a decade, but using Gemini 2.5Pro and Continue I've been able to get up and fully productive in a couple of days, and part of that was building a linux VM to work in. Genuine timesaver.

I'm going to build out the context docs so the LLM adheres to the patterns I've been implementing, pretty confident I can make it so CEO can adjust things without it totally ****ing the bed in future.

CEO...

 

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CEO...

Yes that has done the rounds on social media a few times.

A sensible person uses AI to make rapid prototypes/demos etc, then hires a software enginneer to convert it to production standard code, which is what I'm doing atm.