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re: "We've been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code, now AI is coming for the coders."
Posted on 1/18/26 at 9:57 am to alajones
Posted on 1/18/26 at 9:57 am to alajones
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Maybe I’m wrong. From teaching Gen Z kids for the last several years, I may see 1 out of 50 white or black kids that have it in them to crawl under a house for a living.
There are an estimated 174.5 million males in the United states. If 1 out of 50 is willing to get under a house for a living that's 3,490,000 men. Spread that over the country and that alone seems like a pretty decent amount. That doesn't include the women who go into the field.
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Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:14 am to RollTide1987
Its learn to plumb now
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:24 am to RollTide1987
Just open daycare or medical transportation company and fraud the government. AI can’t do that. If caught pay $1 million when $100,000,000 is missing. No jail time and make $99,000,000. Easy.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:27 am to UltimaParadox
Where are all the AI-only apps that people are using that aren't toy projects? I'm talking about ones that won't fall over when you breathe on them.
And I still want to know: who's making money? So far it doesn't seem to be the AI companies.
And I still want to know: who's making money? So far it doesn't seem to be the AI companies.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:27 am to UltimaParadox
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This thread happens every week for the last 3 years.
Let us know when AI replaces all the coders. Seems to have stalled massively. So the AI bubble marches to it's end slowly.
Chatgpt newest breakthrough is ads these last few years
Now ask the Gen Z people are jumping into trades and about to find about the laws of supply and demand
I know very little about coding. I use ChatGPT frequently. Just to see what it can product, I asked it to help me write code for a new video game app.
It produced what I asked, but I can't tell you exactly what it produced, however; I could ask it to explain to me line by line. I could learn a lot more about coding doing it that way. You still need to know what you are talking about to get it to generate exactly what you want. AI might be a bubble in the sense not all AI companies will not survive, just like any other bubble, but if you think AI itself is part of a bubble, you are dreaming my boy.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:28 am to RollTide1987
AI is coming for welding, HVAC, etc. it’s just a matter of time. Tesla’s Optimus Robots will have AI built in and no job will be safe.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:28 am to RollTide1987
Spoiler: it's coming for the rest too. Just very slightly later.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:32 am to UltimaParadox
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Seems like every tradesmen you meet in their 40s always talk about changing careers as their body cant take it anymore
There is an irrational obsession with trades on here and in online discourse of particular demographics that ignores how shitty the vast majority of those jobs/lives are.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:33 am to SlowFlowPro
Which of the trade jobs are shitty?
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:35 am to RollTide1987
Learn to goon. Stop revolving your life around work.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 10:58 am to BoogaBear
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Good "coders" are basically Tony Stark
AI is the iron man suit
Tony by himself can get a lot done.
Iron man suit by itself kind of sucks.
Tony + iron man suit = gets a lot of shite done
Good coders are going no where. Offshore button clickers are.
That’s a good analogy and conclusion. I think you’re right.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:00 am to RollTide1987
It may not take all of the coders' jobs, but it already has dramtically reduced head count.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:01 am to SDVTiger
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Which of the trade jobs are shitty?
Most are pretty bad and the company is often worse. People who know people who actually work in trades know this.
Even the ones that can pay really well typically involve massive OT and national travel, and are unobtainable to 90%+ of trade types.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:03 am to OweO
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I could learn a lot more about coding doing it that way. You still need to know what you are talking about to get it to generate exactly what you want
I use it for the same thing. I have no idea how to code, but I have been able to use chagpt and copilot to help build code for data analysis. This saves me a ton of time from finding someone to help with the work and then go back and forth on the results and fine tune to get the output I want. I know the data and I know what the output should be, but do not know how to get there. AI writing python code is not difficult and I am weeks to months ahead of my work. There will always need to be people in jobs, but these tools have made certain newer tools (data analytics, coding, etc) more available to those of us who don’t code.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:03 am to RollTide1987
My old friend who is a programmer out of MIT's ComSci, has looked into the new AI coding and was highly impressed with its results.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:05 am to RollTide1987
I agree with his overall idea. However, AI cannot program to the necessary level for a sophisticated architecture, say the Artemis missions for example. AI is excellent for answering general questions that be applied to the code though. It just has no discernment and wisdom to consider any side effects of the programming decisions made.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:06 am to SDVTiger
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Which of the trade jobs are shitty?
Plumbing is literally the textbook definition of the term.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:07 am to MoarKilometers
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:47 am to BoogaBear
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Good coders are going no where. Offshore button clickers are.
Right now.
I don’t think anyone can confidently say that in 10-15 years.
Will there still be coders? Yes, I think the need to understand how to code and what prompts to put into AI is key. Also knowing how/where to implement it into the coding will be needed, but it will definitely take its toll on coding jobs.
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:52 am to brass2mouth
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the need to understand how to code and what prompts to put into AI is key. Also knowing how/where to implement it into the coding will be needed
Assuming that this were to come to fruition, how is this different from what exists now, only on a higher level?
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