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@Natasha Tori Maru Nice, that's some creative way of using AI for sure, kudos Oh really? That sucks. I assume your job involves lots and lots of communicating, and that comes with the burden of dealing with egos for sure. I think people in general don't like to be questioned, but especially in corporate environments, where their salary is at stake, it's more of a threat survival-wise. But any leadership / managerial role will require WHY questions to get shit done. Yeah, in other words soft skills, which many people suck at, because "soft skills" basically get developed when you introspect, self-reflect and all the good stuff we love here 😆 It doesn't come naturally, and that's why it's hard to relate to coworkers sometimes, at least for me. Yeah, I think people are sensitive to punctuation as well, never mind words.

Hey, I'm working as a software developer (mostly web) for 8-9 years now, and for the last couple years, the industry is being reshaped in front of my eyes due to AI. At the moment, it's like, if you don't use some sort of AI agent in your workflow, you're getting behind, and you feel that each month. Managers push us to use AI more and more, and expect productivity gains due to it, and for the last 2-3 months, AI agents have improved to such a degree that me and most developers around me don't actually type code manually, the process has morphed into talking with an agent, or multiple agents at once, and basically orchestrating them, reviewing code, making sure they do the job correctly, and if an agent isn't able to do something, then we switch back to an old school way and do things manually. These agents affected the industry so much that many of us have anxiety over losing our jobs in the long term. That's why now I'm switching more and more into roles and projects that require more architectural and big-picture thinking skills. If not at the current job, I try to advance those skills with my own toy projects in my free time. So, I was wondering if any of you guys experience similar changes due to AI in your induestries. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

@YIDIRYIDIR Sure, I use it mostly for coding and correct prompt and context is crucial for it to do what I want. Yes it's not that AI is a problem per se. It's peoples whole approach towards life. But it shows up strakly when you query an LLM and just take whatever it tells you at face value.

@Ramasta9 My condolences brother, stay strong for your family and yourself. I've lost father 1.5 years ago unexpectadly and as terrible of an experience it was, it made me stronger in ways that I was not expecting. And made me realize that I won't be here forever either.

Did you have a history with gambling in the past or was this a new thing for you? My friend has a gambling addiction and he lost so many things over it. I've also dealth with some addictions and it's tough man, when you just sabotage yourself even though you know it's not healthy for you. Anyways, I'm sure you'll make it all back, good luck 💪

Washing clothes by hand isn't as important as straining your mind to understand the issue without outside assistence and ready-made answers. Washing machine doesn't affect critical thinking abilities but mindlessly querying and believing LLMs might affect it negatively, but only if you use it that way. The whole point of those threads was that people won't carefully consider how to use LLMs responsibly. It's the same pattern as: "Well, king says so it must be true" "Well, I read it in a newspaper so it must be true" "Well, I saw it on TV so it must be true" "Well, I saw it on Facebook so it must be true" "Well, Claude told me so it must be true" You get the point. And this got more complex over time. Now it's literally telling you with a tone of authority and certainty, something that can be flat out wrong, and if you correct it, it will just appoligize and continue as if nothing. In other words, it's hallusinating. That's being improved though. Todays models do less of that, but still, I face with that issue daily. All that being said, it's been a very useful tool for me. But I'm willing to invest some time into figuring out how it really works, what are traps into using it and in what ways can it rotten my mind and consider that really carefully. Most people won't do that.

@VioletFlame The medal has two sides, right? Yes, I also think that people will get even lazier in their thinking if all they do is query LLM's for answers. But also, consider how easier it is to do the research into some field with LLM. For example, if you want to learn gardening, or coding, cooking, anything, you have a personal assistant that can guide you. I think you're a bit too focused on the negative and overlooking the positive. Again, TV's and smartphones can be used in positive and negative ways. You could use a smartphone to learn all kinds of things about the world, watch documentaries to expand your worldview, connect interneting people worldwide and have interesting discussions (like we do now ), etc. Or you could scroll TikTok the whole day, order Wendys burgers and cheetos and binge watch some TV show on it. You get the point. Having tools like AI burdens you with more epistemic responsibility to take. If you take it or not, it's all on you. What I fear is that most people won't. Even I'm in the process of learning how to use AI wisely, haven't fully figured out yet. Also, I think you greatly overestimate current LLM capabilities. It isn't replacing anyone for a long time, if ever. The whole point of this discussion is to get clear about what this technology really is, correct our expectation, and learn to use it in responsible ways because it isn't going anywhere. It's not a technology like Blockchain or NFT's that where hyped up for a year and nobody talks about them since then. Look into Cal Newport's work (on YouTube), he has a pretty realistic discussions around this topic.

@BlessedLion Thanks again 🙏🏻 I'll look into it.

As I'm thinking more about it, I can't come up with another industry that might be affected with LLM's much, other than computer programming and maybe education system.

The idea that a person with no technical expertise can vibe-code a CMS, Community Software, Figma or anything remotely similar in complexity, is just silly. You've to actually know what you are doing when you are using agents. Sure, anyone can vibe-code a todo list app or something simple like that, but he'll quickly run into issues. Coding agents are really useful in hands of experienced developers, not sure for anyone else outside that group.

What's your day-to-day diet like? Like for 80-90% of the times, what do you eat? I try to lose weight while building muscle and here's what I eat: protein pancakes (protein powder, banana, egg) chicken breast + rice / buckwheat eggs cottage cheese tuna salad some fruit That's it basically. 1900-2000 calories and 160g protein. And on the weekends I might switch and bring in some variety, but still stay in these caloric range. What about you?

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah, all that makes sense in the construction industry. I think it will stay as LLM for a long time to come, so you should be safe. I think there aren't many industries that LLMs affect that much, except for maybe software and couple others. And even there, it affects mostly positively for experienced people. Aside to your work, do you use it for your personal life in some way? It's pretty useful when you are learning new things for example. One interesting usage that I've found was the following kind of questions: And since it has memory form all your past conversations, it might give you some answer that changes your perspective or gives you new insights.

@Stick Yes but only if you steam the vegetables.

I fear this will happen not only to soft. devs but most people across the board. I hope I'm wrong

@Lyubov Yes, same. Again, same for me. If I didn't know what I'm doing, it would all turn into a mess quickly. Opus 4.6 model got refined and does much much better job at coding for example. Recently it saved me a huge a amount of time, probably weeks, in one of the tasks I had which was about migrating an old design system to a newest version where they had breaking changes. Without Claude, I'd go through hell probably. All that being said, the only reason I was able to use it effectively was that I had years of manual experience. I think people who say that LLMs will replace employees, haven't actually done much work with the assistance of LLMs.

It will make them even lazier and depended on some chatbot.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVgNBb9kymA/?igsh=cjdsYWlreXc2anZi What could go wrong

Yesterday was a shitty day. The junk food that I ate the other day caused stomach issues and I didn't do much except for laying on my bed in struggle. Today I feel better.

@VioletFlame If that happens, not having ChatGPT is the last thing we'd worry about But yeah, humanity is getting very depended on thinking with LLMs. Me included. I'm in the process of learning how to balance independent vs LLM assisted thinking. Because it's very tempting when you've got some question to just ask Claude. But it's not responsible way of using mind for sure.

My workflow depends heaviliy on AI (Claude Opus 4.6), but it always needs proper guidance, reviewing each line it produces, often makes something I don't want and I'm guiding it to course-correct. Sometimes it just can't fix the issue, even when it sees the full context. That's when I step in manually and help it myself. It's a whole process where me and opus are both heavily invested. I'm not sure why are we discussing human replacement when it's so apparent that even best LLM models need human involvement and orchestration. Can LLMs literally replace you and do your job? No (depends on what you do) But it changes the workflow for sure. With the obvious downsides like the possibility of skill degradation, mind rotting, no more incentive for technical debth, etc. And it's not fun anymore. When I was coding in the past it was more adventurous, I felt I was advancing my skills daily and weekly. Now I just talk with a chatbot and review the code, and occasionally do debugging manually. Sometimes I wish we could go back. But on the other hand, it can super charge the learning process. LLMs can be used very effectively to assist your education. It doesn't replace books but supercharges them. When reading a book simultaniously I can chat with LLM about a topic I didnt fully understood in a book and get it cleared.

The trick that I use sometimes is that if you set phone orientation on landscape, you'll get desktop version formatting options. I use what I want and then switch back to portrait mode. Takes extra time but better then not having options at all.

@integral While all that being true in my experience as well, Antropic CEO's claims are still delusional. AI won't iteratively improve itself in 6-12 month time to the point of making developers obsolete. He is not going to replace his developers in 6-12 month times with opus. It can't just code C compiler and fully-fledged Figma clone why we sit and sip coffee. Still requires very active developer involvement. It's just that we don't manually type most of the code anymore.

If somebody told you yes, would you believe it? Some people who astral project claim to meet their deceased loved ones. I haven't done it so I can't verify.

You guys with your kangaroos and wild pigs, and I'm here eating chicken breast weeks in a row. I need to step up my meat game

Another good one, just dropped. Cal created a segment of his show called "AI Reality Check". He'll be doing it each week. We really want this kind of information now.