All meaning we assign to life is temporary. I think most of us will continue to find meaning somehow, maybe some of us will be employable. I’m not even excluding the possibility that some of us might be better off. But the era where the majority of software is written by humans has ended rather abruptly.
All meaning we assign to life is temporary. I think most of us will continue to find meaning somehow, maybe some of us will be employable. I’m not even excluding the possibility that some of us might be better off. But the era where the majority of software is written by humans has ended rather abruptly.
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I had nothing else in my life. Now I have nothing.
I still cling to my job - but soon that will be gone too, and then my existence is a net negative. I haven’t yet decided how to face that.
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Then I wish for creative destruction for us all; let a hundred flowers bloom on the ashes of what used to be programming.
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i hope you enjoy that.
i don’t believe i will personally still be here in a few years; society is rarely kind to the superfluous
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Of course, the goal of TESCREAL is to make us all superfluous; some of us are just getting there faster than others.
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yep. and disabled people with too-specialized skillsets will be the first to go
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Look on the bright side. If LLM-generated “military intelligence” sparks a nuclear war, we’ll all go together when we go.
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