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Any Day Now (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 21 hours ago by jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 115 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

They are trying, just give them a bit more time and money and money and money and money.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

and all the water+energy a small country needs.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 49 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...

We do need a little more time, though. And money.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 35 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Also, water. We’ll take all of that please, just pipe it right over to our spot in the desert. We’ll need some more money with that, of course.

[+] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com -17 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Everyone complains about water consumption, energy use, and pollution of the ai yet fail to compare the use to its human counterparts

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Turning off AI data centers will instantly save water and energy and reduce pollution.

But the "human counterparts" will still eat and shower if you fire them.

So unless you are planning to murder all the unemployed people, your argument makes no sense at all.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Ah, just kill half the humans. That will make water consumption go way down. Follow me for more resource-saving tips

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you want me to list the myriad ways that I want humanity to use less water, I can. This just happens to be top of the list because it has no fucking value at all and is expected to use even more than the others.

I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say here, other than you use chatgpt and want to stan for it. Ask it to compare the water use to human counterparts, whatever you mean by that. Or really, don’t because the water that would waste is certainly not worth it.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No I just want less people and less a.i. lol

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh, haha, carry on then.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 18 points 19 hours ago

Just one more datacenter, bro!

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 40 points 20 hours ago

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 19 hours ago

I won't be surprised if AI ends up so expensive that they will cost more than actual developers. But as experience has shown, C-Suites prefer expensive and bloated tech than providing developers autonomy, good salaries and good career plans. They see us just as rebellious cogs in the machine.

[+] saltesc@lemmy.world -22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

God, I'm so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 55 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Please exit the job market and let people who want to code make money

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Wait, people will pay me to code?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it's basically half a step above data entry. There's also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Or your employer would invest some money in a proper tool for your job.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nobody has built a tool that executes a mathematical method that I have developed or at least adapted, at least not before I publish the method.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 14 hours ago

Yeah. I love programming. Donate your job to nerds like me, but who need a job.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world -5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn't coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"assumptions"? Maybe consider how "I'm so sick of coding" implies you're doing coding? I'm so sick of driving, oh no somebody 'assumed' I'm a driver instead of a mechanic. Believe it or not, most people 'assume' something when you use sentences that imply it. CrAZy, riGhT? 😲

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They said they are doing some coding at their non-coding job. It would be good if AI could replace amateur programmers, it would make better code and take a load off the workers

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

Not in the first comment, and I replayed to the second one only because they were acting like a stereotypical obnoxious redditor. As for LMM use, sure it could replace them, just give it a little more time and more money and a bit more money and some more money and also enough data server centres to suck dry entire lakes

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 hours ago

lol what a douche.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago

Well, it won't come if everybody keeps pushing all the money in the world¹ into LLMs.

1 - Almost literally.