But am I the only developer here feeling upset about this?
I mean, you spend years working on your skills, you make open source projects on your spare time and try to craft good articles on your own to get maybe 23 stars on github and 5 reactions on dev.to. And then you see posts like this (awesome, don't get me wrong), 2k+ stars and everyone excited.
I don't like using GPT, as I have no satisfaction whatsoever on the results when most of the work is not mine. But I guess it is my problem, and I need to start looking for new hobbies, because obviously I can't compete with that anymore. It saddens me, but I really want to give up.
I hope that what is such a bad thing for me will at least be a good thing for the society at large.
Anyhow, congrats again, and sorry for my rumblings.
Hi, don't be upset :) software development is about human interaction, understanding and describing business requirements and constraints, and creating complex solutions. And any AI can't do this by itself, yet :)
Yeah I was skeptical with GPT when it first came out last year. I've been coding for donkeys years too. But the first time I asked it for ideas to accomplish some task that would probably require some programming, it gave me a solution that I would never have considered because I was completely ignorant that such a thing exists. The initial code it generated was crap, but there was enough there to give me a good idea of how it works, so I just had to break it down to smaller parts and fiddle around with the prompts I fed it, and I was able to complete a custom tool to run the task in a couple of hours. It would have taken me two days of Googling with dozens of open tabs to stack overflow to just figure my first step.
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This is great, and congrats!
But am I the only developer here feeling upset about this?
I mean, you spend years working on your skills, you make open source projects on your spare time and try to craft good articles on your own to get maybe 23 stars on github and 5 reactions on dev.to. And then you see posts like this (awesome, don't get me wrong), 2k+ stars and everyone excited.
I don't like using GPT, as I have no satisfaction whatsoever on the results when most of the work is not mine. But I guess it is my problem, and I need to start looking for new hobbies, because obviously I can't compete with that anymore. It saddens me, but I really want to give up.
I hope that what is such a bad thing for me will at least be a good thing for the society at large.
Anyhow, congrats again, and sorry for my rumblings.
Hi, don't be upset :) software development is about human interaction, understanding and describing business requirements and constraints, and creating complex solutions. And any AI can't do this by itself, yet :)
Yeah I was skeptical with GPT when it first came out last year. I've been coding for donkeys years too. But the first time I asked it for ideas to accomplish some task that would probably require some programming, it gave me a solution that I would never have considered because I was completely ignorant that such a thing exists. The initial code it generated was crap, but there was enough there to give me a good idea of how it works, so I just had to break it down to smaller parts and fiddle around with the prompts I fed it, and I was able to complete a custom tool to run the task in a couple of hours. It would have taken me two days of Googling with dozens of open tabs to stack overflow to just figure my first step.