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I Hired an AI as a Developer - This Is What Happened

Dennis Persson on September 10, 2023

There have been many discussions around whether AI is threatening developer's jobs. Some say they are very close to take our jobs, other claims it ...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Hiring processes were never designed for humans in the first place, so I completely expect Artificial Stupidity to be better at passing them.

For doing the job on the other hand, if an AI is better than you at your work, it was probably not worth doing in the first place.

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Nicolus • Edited

if an AI is better than you at your work, it was probably not worth doing in the first place.

I think this is the whole thing. As has always been the case with technological advances, we automate work that is not worth doing, but as we go the definition of "not worth doing" gets broader and broader.

Ultimately, maybe there is no work that is actually worth doing in the first place, we're just doing it because we haven't been able to automate it yet.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Exactly, but we also discover new human needs to take care of in the pyramid of Maslow.

We should not lever a human do the job that can be done by a computer
and we should never let a computer do the job of a human.

And as more things get automated, we need to learn to work less and less and less.

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Aimua Jeffrey

From this analysis, it's safe to say that AI is nowhere closer to replacing developers' jobs, but it can limit the number of people in developer roles

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Dennis Persson

Yeah, AI is a real threat in many ways. For developers in this case, we probably only have a few years before critical parts of development are taken over by AI, assisted by developers.

This article uses ChatGPT only. In reality I don't think we will have general purpose AIs very soon, instead they will be very specialized in their areas, meaning that the code writing part of developers work can be threatened quick quickly.

The good thing, the AIs today are trained on data, and we keep writing new frameworks for web development more or less monthly it feels like, so maybe that's the way to keep our job, to keep changing how to write it πŸ˜„

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Dennis Persson

Thanks for reading! Let me know if I should post more articles like this by writing a comment or reacting with some of the reactions β€οΈπŸ¦„ πŸ”₯

If you want more memes, you can find those on my Instagram. Enjoy your day!

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SamucaDev

Great post!

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Developer Partners

AI is not scary, it's fascinating. Thanks for the article!

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Thibaut Andrieu

During interviews, I always ask something like: "Tell me about something you are proud of".

If the candidate start to tell me bullshits like "Solving hard problems", or "That time he saved the production server blah blah blah", like ChatGPT would do, I would switch to something else. Not a red flag, but useless information for me.

The best answer I've gotten so far to this question was "My children." We hired the guy btw (he also had very good hard skills πŸ˜‰). I'm looking for humans, not bots. If I was looking for bots, I would buy a bot.

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Thomas Hansen • Edited

The problem is you need to be a dev head (still) to phrase prompts to it, and even then it's only 80% at best. I suspect we're still safe for now πŸ˜‰