i feel like we’ve been ‘a few months away’ from ai replacing all devs and designers for like a year now
Check developer threads on Reddit, Levels or HN, for example. Even many senior engineers with years of experience have found the market to be tough.
The tough job market isn't *just* because of AI.. For example, companies know they can get away with annual layoffs now. It's not a huge surprise that developers are on the chopping block along with everyone else. They're usually the most expensive people 🤷🏻♀️
my experience and perspective wrt tech industry is that there was genuinely a lot of excess for a while (when i entered uni the idea of graduating into a cushy tech job was almost a given) and as times have gotten tougher this excess has dried up.
there’s still a lot of tech jobs i see, but the bar to entry is higher and the competition is much fiercer. compared to the state of hiring in tech industries not even a decade ago i think this amplifies people’s perspective of how poor things are.
The free money well has dried up and people are scrambling for new ideas.. So they're all jumping on the AI ship whether or not it makes sense to do so 🤷🏻♀️
But if you have to think about a difficult problem, and you have to reason with the given conditions and constraints, you won't get very far with just prompting, because oftentimes your problem will be more complex than whatever it's been trained on
That's the great thing about this tech. People will be able to test it independently and confirm or question what Open AI said about it.
LLMs are already helping do grond breaking research in fields like medicine. They can take the data they're trained on and take it much further. And that's LLMs before o3. o3 takes it to a different level.