Technology

Twenty-five years ago I drove taxi for a few years and during training they were very clear that relying on gps prohibits you from learning. Taxi people knew that.

For the last fifteen years I've been a software engineer and in this field, the ability to pick up and maintain knowledge are cornerstones of the job. Having someone do your tasks for you will degrade your abilities to get said tasks done. CS people knows that.

Management however thinks that we will not need those skills in the future.

"our"? Screw you too.

i mean look at reddit andf dev subreddit. since ai NONE of them look capable to code anything.

Wait, really? Oh damn. Maybe we should.... Naaaaaah.

From the future:

AI was the stealthy nail in the coffin. We’d already experienced a century of loss of knowledge. Basic things like animal husbandry, growing crops, mining, smelting, forging…programming. all the things that used to be done by brute human strength or knowledge were now done by computers and AI. But profit was king, out with the old knowledge, in with the new lack of it.

So when the calamity finally happened, nobody was left with any of the knowledge to rebuild.

Breaking News: making robots do stuff for you destroys your ability to do stuff.

I think in five years — if the tools manage to stick around — finding coders that can work without AI assistance will be like finding skilled assembler developers.

It's a good thing AI doesn't rely on competent people for training its input and double-checking its output, because otherwise this would be very bad news.

Hell, even before AI there were signs. Half the mechanics in our shop can't diagnose shit unless there's an error code shown when they plug in the computer.

The intro of Idiocracy on overdrive. Well done.

Ha, jokes on you. I never had the skills to ruin. Now I can make my messes bigger.