bit101bit101@mstdn.social
Oct 24, 2026, 1:46 PMBrowsing LinkedIn constantly for long periods of time is detrimental to your mental health.
However, just checking in once in a while to catch up is detrimental to your mental health.
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Oct 24, 2026, 2:43 PM- bit101bit101@mstdn.socialOct 24, 2026, 3:55 PM
@puf bunch of AI bros mostly. Some anti-AI stuff. I just read a conversation where one person was saying how people use AI to write emails and other people just use AI to consume them, and another person said "what's wrong with that? that's how human communication works."
- Oct 24, 2026, 10:53 PM
@bit101 The argument is certainly valid, and it really does happen. I just find most of the discussions where it is brought up are where both sides are yelling at each other without listening.
I have plenty of concerns about (the amount of) AI usage and our growing reliance on it, but I am also realistic enough to acknowledge that the programming skill might be done for - vs software engineering, which is very much still needed (for now at least).
Every an optimist, I am excited about what these new tools enable people to do. I'm also *very* anxious about it, but prefer to focus on the excitement in public discourse - and keep the discussion about the anxiety inducing topics for 1:1s (either in person or in DMs), just to avoid the yelling mentioned above. :-)
- bit101bit101@mstdn.socialOct 24, 2026, 10:59 PM
@puf Yeah, I'm also worried that "programming" is going away. And while I may have emotions about that, at the end of the day, I have zero interest in prompting an AI to write code for me. I'm also moving towards retirement, so just trying to get by for a few more years as I also have no interest in starting a new career.
- Oct 25, 2026, 3:43 AM
@bit101 I still like the software engineering part, and for now find it fascinating to see how I can get different models to generate something useful - and how to reasonably validate and verify that. I miss typing the code of course, but it's still interesting enough to do.
But I must also admit that I'm doing that in pretirement, which makes it easier.
I'm in talks with a company to help with some DevRel work though, and there I'm really lying awake at night: what do I teach the folks that are now just starting? 😳
- bit101bit101@mstdn.socialOct 25, 2026, 12:01 PM
@puf
Eventually the engineering won't matter, only the outcomes. At least that's the goal of these things. Any part that "a human is needed for" is a target for automation. It might totally fail. But I expect it will be barely adequate and save shareholders enough money that it will go forward. - Oct 25, 2026, 3:02 PM
@bit101 Yup, same here. For software tasks, it's currently to the point of giving meh-to-ok level results for a ridiculous cost. But as the cost goes down and (hopefully) the results keep getting better, it becomes feasible for more such tasks for more people.
What I am most curious about is how this'll change the devices. None of things I've made these tools build for me so far will ever see an app/play store. I've limited to use-cases that can run in a browser so far, but that won't always be feasible (especially looking at iOS there). I was expecting an escape hatch to appear, but recently also started seeing more people buying cheap devices and "writing" custom firmware solutions. There are so many fascinating options!