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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)

submitted 3 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right.

That's a very "you" statement.

For all we know, AI cannot in any way save this developer time.

Some developers know their area so well that there's no reason for them to waste time dictating non-code into a guessing machine.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think you'd have to be a very limited kind of developer - only working in some tiny niche - to make AI completely useless for you. Most programmers occasionally have to do tedious but simple throw-away tasks, or tasks in systems they aren't familiar with. AI absolutely can save you time in these cases.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

But many of us automated those tasks out of our workflows decades ago.