I retired just in time?
if you were working on metaverse, you should have seen the end coming.
apple vision is next.
BTW, the article specifically says that the author has no idea if AI was involved. maybe the fact that the metaverse was a money loser and FB couldn’t figure out how to make it make money was a factor.
but since you brought up AI/LLM/vibe coding, it’s just a different flavor of low/no code.
the end result is still the same: someone has to fix the output and get it past the novice-level.
we’ll see when and if AI gets to the point of being able to augment pros. it certainly isn’t there, now.
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For what it’s worth
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I’m sure AI will get better.
I already use ChatGPT (and some other platforms) for helping me out.
A few weeks ago I used ChatGPT’s deep research functionality for some medical issues. It takes a long time to get results back. But it was able to create a summery that I could just hand over to a doctor. ChatGPT asked some questions along the way.
Of course this is not really IT related…
But last week I combined regular higher-end models and the deep-research option to help me out with some complex SQL queries.
Especially building queries that return planning (calendar like) records, with some simple and some complex recurrence rules. It worked like a charm. Without a LLM I could figure it out myself. But it would have taken me days… weeks… instead of several minutes.
I could have found things on Stack Overflow… but this deep-research option checked several sites, and constructed code snippets that matched my code (table- and column names, etc)
As I said, AI is getting better. And it is here to stay.
But if one is concerned about their job… well… I think the ones who avoid AI might have reason to be concerned. It is just a matter of becoming the director… the designer of better prompts.
It might change the way we code and program. I mean, things changed a lot. Especially the way how we interact with the machine.
Years ago we used punch-cards to program a computer. Later came a keyboard… a mouse… touch screen… voice recognition. And now we have another means to interact… via AI.
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I asked gemini (standard, from Firefox) code to achive a goal.
It used:
Dim instead of Var
InStr Deprecated
Base 1 Actually Base 0
I told it that a line at a time and he proposed a brand new code with a new proposal (Var, IndexOf and base-0).
The glass is 75% full and will grow each month a little bit.
The other thing to notice is the creative way it used to achive the goal:
it creates a method and explaun how to call it.
At first, I was thinking “I do not need that” (bad à priori), but then after getting what I asked, I realized that - in fact - I need to run two times with different parameters this Function.
BTW: I do not tested that Function. But I scratched my head at the result (I will continue to watch how capable Gemini/AI is).