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AI makes all my old software instincts wrong. It's kind of a bracing exhilarating feeling when it isn't totally depressing <\/div><\/div>
Depressing side:<\/div>
Having your primary skill set \/ craft be taken over by machines is an economic threat and and ego threat.<\/div>
Nail in the coffin for GOFAI, OOP, ontology, and all other attempts to put computational knowledge on a structured footing. Also death knell to visual programming languages, something I used to specialize in.<\/div>
Software slop is even worse than text slop. The latter can just be ignored; but software is where I live.<\/div>
At my age I should be settling into old habits instead of inventing new ones. The pace of change is exhausting for everybody, but especially me, I'm too old for this shit.<\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
Exhilarating side:<\/div>
It's easy to make stuff, and its ridiculously easy to turn vague ideas into real software.<\/div>
It's not really the death of all the old powerful ideas of computation. something like them will have to be reinvented for the new world. I would hazard they are needed more than ever, it's just nobody knows what that means yet.<\/div>