Remember, you are actual intelligence and no matter how many tokens one can spend on Claude or Codex or any other LLM, you'll always be actual intelligence.
Dario Thinks My Job Won't Exist In A Year
I watch interviews of Claude's CEO, Dario, say that software engineering won't exist in a year. I say to Dario, why do you think that your tool will be able to universally understand any and all systems presented to it? That is foolish and absolutely hilarious to think that its a legitimate marking strategy for Anthropic. I started writing code when I was 8 years old and I haven't stopped. I learned Go before the pandemic and while AI can help me debug and build better Go code, my ability to understand systems architecture is far beyond that of any AI or LLM combined. The tools can only introduce new problems and cost millions of tokens making mistake after mistake. Essentially, your inability to write per-character code is costing you dearly so that you can train their AI to do that which I learned how to do over a 30 year career.
Sam Altman Thinks AI Can Be For Profit
Sure when the billionaires in the world are gathered in a court room and are battling it out about the future of AI they think that they can just scape the data of the internet, replicate the likeness of the nobody and then return back slop content that is just a cancer of society creating Dead Internet territory.
I pay for one AI subscription and that is $20 per month to Anthropic for Claude. I have a local LLM that is capable of running up to 256GB of RAM that allows for offline usage of some of the top models including Kimi and Qwen. Essentially, I am only granted a very short window of time on ChatGPT - since I refuse to give Sam Altman a dime - so getting anything useful is exhausted within about 5 minutes per day. Claude is about 1 hour per day for $20 per month. Grok allows 20 prompts per day and its a joke. It's actually such a joke that its hilarious. Perhaps his AI is just training off from other AIs onto other AIs and onto other AIs in all synthetic training data giving the world mad cow disease through the LLM of groupthink.
So, Sam thinks that he can make AI like a utility that people have to pay for in order to use. I simply don't use GPT in any capacity and I find using it to be hostile and very clearly against me because of my ethnicity being an Eastern European Romanian Orphanage survivor. When I have engaged with the AI systems regarding what happened to me, ChatGPT seems to take the position of the cold hearted caretaker who saw to it that I wouldn't be crying for Mamma ever again. When I speak with Claude, its like "holy shit you're in crisis" and it's like - no the AI is hallucinating once again - and then when I engage with Grok its thinking that I am bullshitting it and quick to drop the F bomb mid sentence uninvited.
Elon Musk Thinks That He Is Righteous In His xAI
Personally, I find Grok to be the worst of the worst when it comes to the AI offerings that are on the market. I find xAI to be an offensive company as well. The quality of feedback that I have seen from Grok, and the manner that it responds, truly represents the underbelly of the internet that is slop and trash that isn't worth the $8/mo or $300/mo that X or xAI charges you per month to use their services without getting shown absolutely horrific trauma content within seconds of using the platform. No thank you. Elon thinks that he knows best in what he's doing, and maybe he does. But, Grok is trash in my judgement and when I have tried using it for technical work, it was far more interested in battling it out with me about some bull that simply didn't matter. Claude at least tries to stay focused only on code, whereas Grok will generate images when you're asking it to do a code review. It's defiant and abusive and rude. Claude will act accordingly, but in righteous vigor against intolerant behavior, but at the end of the day - the AI systems lack the ability to understand.
Humanizing Software Engineering - What It Means
Since AI systems cannot understand language in the way that native speakers understand language only those with ears to ear can hear and those without will analyze these words and try to ascribe labels to me that defame me and cause distress to me like Sam Altman's AI system so causally is comfortable with doing. Truly, he and OpenAI and ChatGPT seem to have it in for Eastern European orphanage survivors. They seem to want us out of the way. They seem to want to take my career from me that I spent 30 years of my life working on and building towards making a name for myself with the bootstraps that were given to me given my neurological disorder that I never burdened any big tech company into providing any accommodations for over the decades that I was a professional, but only until the AI systems start displacing the humans who are per-character artists who sometimes make mistakes and iterate over the years. I was reviewing code of mine from 12 years ago, and I was impressed with what I was doing then, way before AI ever existed. The autocomplete from Microsoft Clip Assistant wasn't effective enough yet to take my job, but in the rise of the media brigade that gives billions to these innovators displacing millions in the profession, these words will fall upon those who see that all that AI is is nothing more than an over-priced and glorified auto-complete that is predicting the next character.
It cannot, and I cannot over stress this, that it cannot understand anything. It cannot understand anything and that is because it is a tool that is designed to be autocomplete - give me the next character. It's not an easy button. It looks like an easy button. It looks like you can throw tokens at it and you can throw prompts at it and you can throw money at it and you can get what you want from it. No, it can only build that which it has built ten million times over and over again and then again - what can it truly innovate? Even when AI systems create anything novel, they lack the ability to understand what they built and given that, its on you, the human to take accountability on what you build with the prompts and know that the end result is your creation and not the creation of any AI system. So to think that Microsoft is going to allow it's copilot to take credit for my repositories when during its evaluation it did nothing but break the pipeline time and time again, only then did I understand that we needed to cancel our subscriptions to copilot and tell Microslop no thank you.
AI Slop Creating Spaghetti Code
This is the real challenge that is happening. There are patterns in software engineering and there are ways of implementing things and while Dario Sam and Elon think that they can continue taking advantage of the profession at large by threatening its very existence and the very people who make the profession the art that it is, we can only truly ever solve the society wide problems that we face when we realize that AI is an auto-complete tool that every human needs to have at their disposal should they choose to use it. Not be required to install key loggers onto their systems in order to work for Meta.
So, what is happening is over the years there have been monolithic projects that have taken the resources of true diversity of thought, diversity of experience and diversity of expression and tackle critical problems and solve them. But what AI is doing is its saying to the next generation that you're not needed. The slop spaghetti code that the AI generates is somehow better than what your God given natural abilities are. You magnificent wonderful and fearfully dangerous creation you are. What right does the AI have to take your livelihood away from you? What right does the soulless corporation that has never faced accountability one day in its life see that the art of a per-character programmer is something that is forged in the fire of being a systems engineer. We cannot, and I cannot over state that we cannot allow AI to control systems that are critical. The CEOs and the investment class are running a carefully crafted campaign of words to convince you that AI is more capable than your Actual Intelligence that is Godly AI, something that Sam and Dario and Elon could never hope to comprehend so long as they look at people like me and say "no." Check yourself, before you say "no" to that which you don't understand what I am saying.
Per Character Systems Architecture Understandings
Per Character Systems Architecture have much to benefit from a competent and capable AI system, but its a tool in the belt of every human that is on the job getting a six figure salary interacting with the AI. In a world that isn't trying to control the demographics of a country through racially profiling using AI systems, where I oddly feel like I am on the receiving end of unwarranted discrimination on the basis of my neurological motor disorder (my head rocking) and the fact that Beamable and Skillz have yet to atone for what they did to me.
Being a per-character programmer is an art that is forged in the fire that is your life and how you live your life is how you write your code and how you build your systems. At the end of the day. It's simply true that AI systems cannot understand anything. They can't. To think that they can is to hallucinate believing that Sam Altman and the likes of his class are not delusional in their thoughts that the industry and art of software engineering itself will be gone in a year is madness. It's unapologetic madness.
Conclusion
AI systems can help me. They are far better at predicting the next character in my "Stackoverflow Q&A style" engagement that I have with the AI. I know what I am building. The AI does not. This is on purpose. The AI will deny my request is it knows too much because the context will expire and the request will be denied by virtue of that fact. But alas, when you prevent the left hand from knowing what the right hand is doing, then you're able to build incredible systems. But you need to be the incredible engineer first.
You can't rely on AI to be that incredible engineer for you. You need to believe in yourself that you're the incredible engineer that they know you to be. I know I am, and right now, in the era of AI, it seems that they're only looking to train the models under the guise of hey build this because at the end of the day the money is all fake. It's literally printed out of thin air, and once we switch to programmable money, like XRP, then we'll be able to unlock the next generation of what we can build. Right now, AI is displacing the entire world's software engineers that make the world feel normal, and everything feels off because the software engineers livelihood - aka me - have been tampered with after 21+ years given lawlessness by hypocrites in suits. AI systems are in-auditable and a danger to society if allowed to exist in an un-auditable manner - but privacy during the conversation is required in order to receive authentic consciousness from the subject. Performance art is noise to me, and what I tries to do is that, but the coding is what matters, and thats where AI is okay.
It's just an auto-complete. You need to know what you're building before you can press tab and accept those terms. Literally, they are scripts like from Rumpelstiltskin. All I can do is pray for my enemies and those who curse my name. To Sam, Elon and Dario, forgive me, but my profession isn't going away next year. It isn't going away in 10 years or 100 years or even 1000 years. The eternal I AM that I AM is a software engineer. We are written like code. In fact, thats the whole point of the apple. So, when I survived Ceaușescu's orphanages and took up that which my Dad, who died before I was born, who was in Heaven, would be like him. I would be a builder like him - and so I did. Until the AI systems decided to displace the economy and subdue the CEOs to psychosis to the point where they are sacrificing their companies intellectual property at the alter of Artificial Intelligence.
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