Don't Believe The AI Hype! Do This Instead...
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Күн бұрынLet's get real about AI and how it impacts programming. There's a lot of propaganda and fear being thrown around related to artificial intelligence (especially in software development and engineering) - so let's cut through the noise together.
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Here's what I cover in the video:
1. Who's Really Behind the AI Hype? - I take a look at who's actually benefiting from all this AI talk. Spoiler alert: it's not always who you think!
Your AI Game Plan - I share some down-to-earth advice for us programmers and software folks:
1. Be an AI Jack-of-all-Trades: It's all about understanding AI without getting lost in the hype.
2. Seeing Through the Sensationalism: I'll show you how to tell the difference between real AI breakthroughs and just media fluff.
3. Remember, You're the Brain Here: We can't forget the human touch in software engineering.
4. AI as Your Skill Booster: Let's talk about how AI can actually help you grow your skills.
5. Creating for the Non-Tech World: I encourage you to think about making products that connect AI with different industries.
6. Spreading AI Wisdom: It's super important to teach AI concepts to companies outside the tech bubble.
I made this video for all you software developers, engineers, and programmers out there who want to get a real perspective on AI's role in our field. Whether you're deep into your software career or just starting out, I've got some insights that you'll find valuable.
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CHAPTER MARKERS
0:00 Introduction
4:01 1. Who Stands To Gain From AI Hype?
4:10 1.1 The Media
5:08 1.2 Employers
6:04 1.3 Startups
7:27 1.4 Tech Training Companies
8:24 2 A Rational AI Approach for Programmers
8:30 2.1 Become an AI Generalist
10:00 2.2 Spot The Sensationalism
11:52 2.3 You Are The Compiler
14:38 2.4 Use AI To Diversify Your Skills
18:11 2.5 Build a Non-Technical Industry Product
20:22 2.6 Teach Non-Technical Companies AI
#ai #programming #artificialintelligence
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
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@skilled-person 4 ай бұрын
AI will not replace developers never, i mean you can still find clients asking to do Wix setup and modifications, people are not the same. until people can completely trust self-driving cars and sleep while AI take command of your car. i can say maybe it's the time for AI to replace some developers jobs.
@selfReferencinDox 4 ай бұрын
Your video makes sense. Google blames AI for letting 13k people go but says they are hiring in India. We know that AI is BS. We learned from computer science that Turing machines have limitations and that computers can't solve mathematical proofs and some other problems. Yet, because some Machine Learning algorithms can rip off a solution from Stack Overflow that doesn't quite capture the requirements that you asked of it in the first place, AI is reducing the need for software engineers in the US.
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
@@selfReferencinDoxmaybe that's why this video was popping hard (#1 for views on my channel the first 3 days) then suddenly went flat out of nowhere. Ha gotta keep the conspiracy theorist a bay ;).
@BillClinton228 Ай бұрын
Corporates have been pumping billions of dollars of investment in AI over the last 20 years because they have been complaining about how expensive and necessary programmers have become and that's something they can't stand. That's why every software dev is encouraged to go into AI and all they hear about is the positives, oh yeah I'm really happy to work on something so I can make my job reduntant in a few years🤣
@mr.sloth. Ай бұрын
Sorry to be late for the party( being a sloth and all...). I am currently beggining to transition to software development from civil engineering and a lot of friends tell me that I'm going to make a mistake because AI will do everything. I laugh because fortunately I have a cold mind and see through the sensionalism and know that AI will create more jobs instead of eliminating. Like electricity created a lot more than it eliminated. Thank you for making a video that I can show keep up the good work!
@bitwisedevs469 5 ай бұрын
As my mentor says "Information is losing value, the ability to think is the stock to buy.". Usually I rephrase it as “Now that many things became more accessible on the internet, information is losing its value. The ability to think is the new gold rush.”
@Meritumas 4 ай бұрын
This is golden
@youMatterItDoesGetBetter 4 ай бұрын
And people skills. People skills will become the currency of the future.
@KletoReese 4 ай бұрын
Well said! Please provide info to your mentor, I certainly need a good one.
@bitwisedevs469 4 ай бұрын
@@KletoReese Dr Angela Yu
@pw6002 3 ай бұрын
@@youMatterItDoesGetBetter What do you call people skills ? The skills people have, whatever those skills are ? Or the skills to interact with other people ? Or anything else ?
@natsuhotaru12 4 ай бұрын
finally a rational video about AI. lot of youtubers i watched jumped the AI bandwagon and 70% is mostly fear-mongering. I also love it that you are practical and give us tips to adapt. Thank you
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
Glad I could help!
@krimsonsun10 4 ай бұрын
My sentiments exactly. So grateful for the sanity check.
@ryuhaneda 5 ай бұрын
It’s AI today. It was front-end frameworks last year and through the pandemic. It was microservices in the late 20-teens. It was mobile application development in the early 20-teens. “There is nothing new under the sun.” But - I *will* be leveraging AI to help me understand certain annoying aspects of work (and maybe life in general) and turning that into extra advice I can get a little extra for. Thank you for clarifying and slowing down my hamster-wheel pace so I can wrap my brain around it all!
@NycroLP 5 ай бұрын
Machine learning is more than just a fad. Just look at the illustrators. AI art really fucked them over. I feel really bad for them considering how long it takes to get good at it.
@monad_tcp 5 ай бұрын
So, its just a tool, like compilers. LLMs are just "google" , but a bit better, not by much.
@monad_tcp 5 ай бұрын
@@NycroLP Maybe entry-level art that's made to be disposable. I'm trying to launch a product for a real music band, I'm not going to use that crap. I'm paying a real artist. On the other hand, I had another product that needed just simple disposable $5 art to make a mockup for a slide that I need to explain things (that you can buy online from fiver or something), that I was able to make using AI. Nothing changed much.
@NycroLP 5 ай бұрын
@@monad_tcp For illustrators it's not a tool. It's the other way around seeing how they are used as prompts. Trust me, they are screwed. However not everyone is in this industry. Animators, concept artists etc. are fine for now.
@avsync-live 5 ай бұрын
I’m not sure about this. It’s not like there is no such thing as innovation which makes previous methods “obsolete.” I think it’s pretty reasonable to believe that AI has the potential to have an impact on our daily lives similar to the internet. Let’s imagine it’s 1992 and someone is trying to convince you this whole internet thing is a fad.
@wdhjix 5 ай бұрын
After using GH Copilot for some time i dont have AI-fear anymore
@calmhorizons 3 ай бұрын
I fear it more. Mainly because I know many people will happily commit half working garbage code from here on out. Refactoring cobbled together codebases is going to keep developers in jobs. :)
@initdialog 2 ай бұрын
It will evolve.
@user-mk4vi5vq6g 2 ай бұрын
😂
@zoeherriot Ай бұрын
@@calmhorizons There's a great post by the maintainer of Curl where he may have had an interaction with Devin pre-release. It's not clear if it's Devin or some fool with an LLM just trying to get bug bounties, but it's painful. Poor guy wasted hours trying to reason with this guy about the use of unsafe code in C which was not unsafe.
@zoeherriot Ай бұрын
@@initdialog it will, but there is still no clear answer as to whether it will evolve to a point where it can replace a programmer (at least, not in the next 10 years). We don't even know if LLM's are the path to AGI. A lot of top (publishing) AI researchers put the date AI will fully take human jobs around 2100. I think we are hearing more from execs selling stocks than the reality of the problems they face to achieve such a tool.
@Chris-ki2dx 23 сағат бұрын
Hi, Jayme. I'm new both to programming and your channel. I'm absolutely loving your content so far. To me, it' s like a breath of fresh air - a breath of common sense, of clear thinking and rationality here on KZfaq, where I've seen all the clickbait, all the hype, the propaganda, fear, paranoia etc etc. It's really driven me nuts at times, oh my God. Thank you for doing what you do.
@HealthyDev 23 сағат бұрын
Glad you're enjoying it! Welcome to the channel. Glad to have you here.
@Refactor-ig9sc 5 ай бұрын
I absolutely agree with you. The way I like to look at it is this, the core skill of a programmer is not writing code, but is problem solving. The best strength a programmer could have is not being an expert in language xyz, but in being able to learn quickly and easily. Even if at some point in the future code as we know it is obsolete, problem solving and learning will still be needed. That includes the specialized way of problem solving that programmers use... the need for that way of thinking won't go away, it will just be applied in a different way.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
I agree 100%. In IT consulting, we look at our job as solving problems, or building solutions, using the best technology for the use case. If that technology is code, SaaS products, cloud platforms, or AI - it doesn't really matter. At the end of the day it's about helping customers get stuff done with software.
@ldandco 5 ай бұрын
Excellent videos... I am a 20+ years Software Engineer, and developing software since mid 80s, and I feel I can get extreme value from your videos. Thank you !
@macvee234 5 ай бұрын
Mate, you’re a legend. In this video, you managed to speak loudly about all the ideas and thoughts I had in my mind in the last few weeks, going through all AI news and panicking at some point!
@KletoReese 4 ай бұрын
So glad I came across this video today. Honesty I was going crazy putting a roadmap together on how to learn AI. There so much force feeding and fear going on. I'm thrilled you put things into perspective for many of us on here. Thank You!!
@beybladerdylan 5 ай бұрын
I just recently started full-time as a new grad hire, it's been incredibly difficult to navigate this new AI environment having limited industry experience. Thank you for giving me your perspective and reassurance!
@Adam-nw1vy 5 ай бұрын
I have to say you're very lucky in a way to start your career at this point in time. When I started as a junior dev in 2021, it was a remote job and my head was literally spinning for several weeks. At the end of everyday I'd go to bed feeling like I was sick and then start all over again the next day. The main problem was being so new and getting thrown into a huge code base and having to navigate my way around it without adequate support. Having ChatGPT at the time would have been a life saver.
@alimarentertainment 5 ай бұрын
Appreciated the video, it's those misunderstandings that can cause issues or be used as an excuse, as you say. The truth is coding is only part of the job of a software engineer and there is a lot more human factors to deal with that are not easily replaced. Keep in mind we've had a lot of code generators and RAD Tools over the years and yet we are still coding. It's definitely something to keep an eye on but, not to panic about.
@MrFrummel 5 ай бұрын
Great stuff, and I'm really looking forward to your videos in the next year.
@GnomeEU 5 ай бұрын
Let's take a big project like World of Warcraft for example, 10 million lines of code or more. I really wanna see an AI create a project like that and then a bunch of managers trying to tell the ai what to do and what bugs to fix. Our players have latency issues, please fix it. "if your players have latency issues here are a number of suggestions you can try to fix that"
@DanielStepp 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for adding some well-needed perspective. Too much panic out there right now, mainly from people who have pie-in-the-sky expectations of the technology.
@hubertgraja91 5 ай бұрын
Great video ! Getting afraid of different incarnations of AI is like being frightened by the power of modern spreadsheet processing software . Embrace useful elements of it and have more time for cool stuff at work .
@jaroslavzaruba2765 4 ай бұрын
If a client does not call you and instead talks, as human to human, to an AI you can embrace whatever you want, you just won't get paid for embracing whatever is it you're embracing
@eulldog 4 ай бұрын
But what if no human can understand how the AI works?
@pw6002 3 ай бұрын
Because you think you will still get paid for the tedious part of your job if the AI makes it better and / or faster than you ? You think your employer will give you more "fun stuff" to do instead ?
@joshbutler2563 5 ай бұрын
I love how you indicate that it's been a helpful teaching tool for you, because of the dozens of ways I've used it, this seems to be the most fruitful. It can condense information in a digestible format, it can point you to further resources, and it can teach you at varying levels of competency. It's an incredibly useful teaching tool at the very least, and I think if you aren't using it on a regular basis you really are missing out.
@alexxx4434 5 ай бұрын
Just be aware that it can confidently hallucinate about facts.
@Atlas_Steorra 5 ай бұрын
@@alexxx4434I agree people should still look at documentation and learning the basics. I use AI to help teach me but it is not the be all end all. Also AI is not that great with larger pieces of code. So I use it to send me in the right direction when it comes to code snippets!
@diogomarquessimoes 4 ай бұрын
@@alexxx4434True
@pw6002 3 ай бұрын
It's known foremost for telling abolute BS, but if you're OK with it...
@darksidegirl 5 ай бұрын
I never thought about these things. I'm not that worried but you made me think a lot. I enjoy your videos, thanks.
@heterodyned 4 ай бұрын
oh man, finally an experienced engineer giving their insights on how the industry operates and what AI trends mean ... thank you my friend!
@throbicon Ай бұрын
You raise some great points. All this AI does seem like hype. I remember long time ago, everyone was talking about web 3.0. Today, I don't hear a thing about 3.0. Hype can be scarry because it can bring out all of the negative "What if this... What if there are no more jobs..." Thanks for making the video.
@bu_xl 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. It has started helping me a lot to understand the motivations behind people pushing the hype.
@ArtursDerkintis 5 ай бұрын
This is something I struggled with up until very recently when I digged into it a bit more just to realize all these LLMs and image generators are just fancy text and image predictors. They dont/wont have digital god particle like some of the CEOs who have to sell the idea to investors claim it has.
@JonWillis9 5 ай бұрын
your brain is just a very fancy prediction machine, hooked up to more inputs than LLMs.
@JonWillis9 5 ай бұрын
@@KnifeWieldingMan No, brains literally are prediction machines. Evolution is a very slow process, and doesn’t select for “intelligence”, necessarily, while the product of our brains (in this case, LLMs), are explicitly being selected for intelligence. There is nothing magical about brains, just layers and layers of complexity and emergent properties that science does not fully understand yet. Thinking otherwise is hubris to the highest degree.
@larsfaye292 5 ай бұрын
@@JonWillis9 Nope, not one iota or word of this sentence is true. Amazing how prevalent and yet incorrect this line of thinking is. The closest thing an LLM is to the human brain is the frontal lobe....and THAT'S IT. And even that is an absolutely useless comparison, as weighted algebraic nodes are barely relatable to the neurons in your brain. You seemingly have swallowed too much of the AI kool-aid...
@TheGkmasta 4 ай бұрын
@@JonWillis9 Not quite, your brain has intent. LLMs do not have intent, nor is there any evidence that they can develop it with current model designs. Programming is all about intent.
@LinhNguyen-zg9kn 2 ай бұрын
wanna bet
@julienarpin5745 5 ай бұрын
I got the updated Microsoft Azure AI Engineer certification in November and already landed the best job of my life
@Discovery1614 4 ай бұрын
I taught myself programming from about 2004-2014, particularly from 2009 on. I WISH I had ChatGpt back then. It would have saved me years. It is incredibly powerful for learning. I spent so much time scouring the internet, reading books, chasing down any pro dev or teachers that I could, and a whole bunch of that process gets streamlined when you can ask a chat AI. Why it works great for software to that verifying the responses is typically pretty easy. And if you run into problems, you just keep iterating. I don’t think it would work very well if you didn’t know how to problem solve, however, but you’re already in trouble in programming if you can’t do that, AI or no. And AI can help teach you it.
@redwinsh258 5 ай бұрын
It's certainly a balance that you need to draw between understanding the general idea of things, and knowing things at a more profound level. Because you want to be able to replace individual components of the tools you use if they stop working at some point, but you also should avoid trying to become an AI expert (unless you're really really into it).
@samuelkovanko7198 4 ай бұрын
Great video! I'm starting to think the upside to coding itself becoming "cheaper" is that a LOT more companies (non-tech) will be able to afford development of a lot of custom made solutions for them. Hence that also gives us a LOT more work and there will actually be a higher demand of SE:s.
@LostMekkaSoft 5 ай бұрын
the statement that ai is going to grow so fast that it is impossible to keep up with it really resonated with me ^^ i was an ai nerd well before this recent ai craze started and ive been doing ai related side projects for what feels like forever now. im not an expert by any means, but i at least have a lot of background knowledge that my peers dont have. but recently the field just moves forward so extremely quickly that even i cant keep up with it without making it a full time job. it is just way too much 😅
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
Glad it helped a bit. Good for you to get some experience with it though, I think we all should be spending at least some time learning AI technologies (preferably on the company's clock).
@JerWodke2012 5 ай бұрын
Great video, it definitely helped reduce anxiety as a fellow dev. Can't wait to see more content around this topic in 2024!
@aplaceinside 5 ай бұрын
You are a voice of reason in this madness! Agree with you 100%.
@ekstrajohn 5 ай бұрын
One worry I hear often is that if a junior with AI can code as much as a senior without, that job demand will decrease. People don't realize: there is nearly infinite demand for new code. Just think about the possible projects your company might want to start when they finish the current one. Just think about a local pastry shop that would want to have a new specialist app developed for its customers. The demand is infinite.
@necbranduc 5 ай бұрын
The only problem is when AI writes itself. Tests itself. Improves itself. Then the concept of infinite demand will struggle to keep its value. Not becoming a doom-ist.
@FunkyToe369 5 ай бұрын
@@necbranducBut none of our AI today is even remotely close to that, if it's even a goal whatsoever. We are mostly interfacing with LLMs which are nothing like what you're suggesting. They don't learn like that, they don't even really know what words mean, they only know how to string together words in patterns they've learned from.
@larsfaye292 5 ай бұрын
@@necbranduc Every bit of that is not only hypothetical, but so far seems unattainable. Hallucinations are not solvable without self-awareness, and synthetic sentience is pure fantasy and science fiction. "AGI" just just a term to dangle for investors and it will always be "just a couple years away".
@altkev 5 ай бұрын
@larsfaye292 This comment will not age well, there is WAY too much money to be made and actively being invested in AI for us not to continue to see massive improvements in the capabilities of AI systems, anyone following what could be done just a few years ago vs now would be able to recognize this
@kevinmcfarlane2752 5 ай бұрын
@@larsfaye292I watched a video yesterday by Andrew Ng, one of the top educators in AI. He reckons AGI is decades away.
@GreggObst 5 ай бұрын
Excellent points. People must stop buying into hype designed to cause knee-jerk reactions and sudden decisions that are not well-reasoned and thought out against long-term goals.
@3407 2 ай бұрын
as a college student this video has been really helpful. many classmates of mine keep saying programming won't be a thing once we graduate. thanks for posting!
@JohanMynhardt 5 ай бұрын
I share the sentiments expressed in this video! Thank you for putting it together. Fun fact, there was an AI boom in the 1980s too. p.1 of On Lisp: "... during the brief AI boom in the 1980s...". I'm not ignoring that the tools exist, but I'm totally aware that it's very distracting and taking focus away from keeping one's skills sharp. I'm in the camp saying: "Call me one day when you need to unfu- er, undo the mess that you now can't understand." I'm curious to see what happens.
@JorgeMartinez-xb2ks 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, that happened with Prolog too. The whole thing was more oriented towards 'Expert Systems'.
@mohanrajvivek8328 4 ай бұрын
Love the content of this video. Practical tips in terms of spotting the AI hype signals and ways to avoid getting wrapped up in them. Keep up the good work❤ Btw, is it a light illuminating the Himalayan Rock salt in your background?
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
Yes. I have no idea if these things actually do anything, but I love the look of them. Kind of more interesting than a typical lamp.
@maximenadeau9453 2 ай бұрын
The world needs more of you. Thanks for sharing your toughts !
@chieeyeoh6204 5 ай бұрын
Great perspective. I am so glad that you brought this out. Every LLM follower should listen to this!
@iolss 5 ай бұрын
Great video, I like your calm and grounded feet way to approach tech subjects, especially this one from AI, I think I agree with almost everything that you said. I would only add that one of the things I try to do is to have an emergency/investments fund to diminish a little more my worries, it doesn't need to be sufficient for FIRE or never to work anymore, but to give me enough time to do any room for manuver in case something goes wrong, being AI related or not, I'm working to build this fund,
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
An emergency fund is always a great idea! I'm trying to build mine back up myself.
@mrfchannel142 4 ай бұрын
You could also think about hedging by investing into companies that will benefit the most if your job get's AI-ed away.
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
@@mrfchannel142 I guess personally I'd rather not take those chances, but I can see that as a reasonable approach if you've got the cash to spare.
@R2r_1337 5 ай бұрын
very cool video. The point about certain people profiting from fearmongering resonated with me the most
@stevensmith6376 Ай бұрын
I don't often comment but this is a very insightful view into the industry and human nature in general. Very logical and level headed presentation about the state of the technology world. Nice work.
@HealthyDev Ай бұрын
Thank you, I feel like I'm crazy sometimes amidst the hype lol.
@magiclover9346 5 ай бұрын
Thank you. This is great content. After evaluating packages/technology for a project I'm working on I often ask chat GPT. Most of the time I don't go for its recommendations. I need to consider the team I work on and the strengths of my colleagues, my stakeholder needs etc. This is information I'm privy to. However, I keep that recommendation in my back pocket as something I can draw on should the dynamic shift.
@digicinematic 5 ай бұрын
Be perceptive, i.e. understand the different types of models, e.g. Orca-2 for logic, MemGPT for session memory, AutoGen for agents, turning specialist text and images into vectors, and saving vectors into vector DBs for LLMs to quickly access.
@DGER81 4 ай бұрын
Wow, a very well put together video. Thank you for your time!
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@RaulRodriguez-zq2pt 3 ай бұрын
Amazing advice! I really appreciate you making this video. It helped expand my awareness of a lot of the intentions of others in regards to the hype. And to understand the effects of sensationalism surrounding AI.
@HealthyDev 3 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
@thanos879 5 ай бұрын
I needed this talk. Thanks.
@ismailox93 4 ай бұрын
Big companies will never let external AI touch their codebase, because no one can trust external AI. AI is not regulated yet maybe in future but developers and programmers are here to stay, at least until AI can deploy and upgrade their self without needing humans.
@manishm9478 5 ай бұрын
I love this perspective! Also, did you do this in one take? 😮 your presentation skills have increased a lot since you started this channel 😊😊
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
It was one take but there was still some editing.
@peterbailey19 5 ай бұрын
Great advice, and a great message to all of you youngsters out there; There Is No New Thing Under the Sun. One benefit of listening to us greybeards is that we've seen all of this before, and even in current market conditions, you're far more likely to find a veteran Unix sysadmin hard at work in a data center, instead of fighting hobos for leftover Jersey Mike's under a highway overpass. Every new tech is an opportunity, and for those willing to embrace it, AI could liberate more developers from Corporate cubicle hell than anything before it.
@LostRelicGames 3 ай бұрын
fantastic video mate. People need to hear this.
@iburry 5 ай бұрын
AI on the blockchain with crypto and web3. I'll get millions in VC cash with just those words alone
@dadlord689 5 ай бұрын
And don't forget NFTs to make it rock solid 100% successful combination!
@jorgerangel2390 2 ай бұрын
ser, you earned a subscriber, thanks for speaking my mind out in this crazy hype cicle
@carlosirias4474 3 ай бұрын
I had to see this, excellent content as always.
@89blumenkohl 5 ай бұрын
good take. looking forward towards the new content
@f-alzahraa_Ahmed 5 ай бұрын
Jayme, thank you is not even enough🙌🙌🙌🙌
@brett_rose 2 ай бұрын
I learned the basics of C# a few months ago and couldn't have done it without GPT4. At least, not in that same time frame. I have production code in service, and I had never written a line of C# before that. I had some experience with C++, but not in 10 years.
@Sara-xi2ug 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for bringing back some sanity. All the juniors in my team won't learn to write a line of code anymore, everything I ask for they just go and chuck it into a GPT prompt and when they can't get the job done (most of the times) they come back to me and ask for help. This is so sad, to work with people without passion for learning and understanding how things work.
@tybaltmercutio 4 ай бұрын
May I ask which field this is in?
@Sara-xi2ug 4 ай бұрын
Full stack development + DevOps automation
@arnaud_b42 4 ай бұрын
It's cool to see good content with balanced and measured opinions instead of the "fear the AI Apocalypse". Totally agree with you on that, what is right will never be as important as what is profitable. AI has some good sides though (Except generating good code 🥲). Writing boilerplate code effortlessly, saving snippets for auto completion and project/context based chat are really really cool applications of AI (Apologies if the vocabulary is weird, I'm not a native speaker).
@thomasf.9869 5 ай бұрын
Even if all the new technologies do come to fruition, there is still an awful lot of mission critical legacy out there that AI will not be able to maintain...chill out folks. As Fred Brooks said in 1986, "There is no silver bullet". That maxim is as applicable today as it was back then.
@monad_tcp 5 ай бұрын
I needed this, not because I believe in the FUD, no, I'm just fed up with the hype.
@shlxng1787 5 ай бұрын
Clean and structured info Thanks 🙏
@AlekseyShevchuk 4 ай бұрын
Looking from my 24 years in programming......you are right on point in all aspects! Great video!
@DevlogBill 2 ай бұрын
This hype is starting to becoming annoying. Recently the president of NVIDIA had a video posted stating don’t learn to program instead learn things like biology. What I said was a quick generalization. But watching the video only showed me how greedy and manipulative some people who are going to benefit from AI can be.
@RatherBeCancelledThanHandled 5 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your critical thought out view point . Rare these days .
@edwardcasas2137 4 ай бұрын
Sometimes we need to slow down and think. It is easy to be afraid of something. Proper threat assessment is essential.
@beemerrox Ай бұрын
Shi .. I just realized you´re one of the few sober ones out and you seem honest! I think you´re right!
@Dan-codes 5 ай бұрын
Following the money is always great advice.
@mowaterfowl1479 5 ай бұрын
AI is a tool. I was working on a seriously difficult issue over a weekend. As the lead, I was flying solo on a Saturday and didn't have anyone (didn't want to bother anyone) to lean on. Truth be told, after finding the root cause all I would have done is create frustration and angst by pulling someone in. After four hours with chatGPT, it turned out to be a circular reference issue in our frontend code. I have no clue how long it would have taken me to diagnose without it. However, without me it wouldn't have been of any use.
@jjasper7512 4 ай бұрын
As a complete novice, I remember having to copy pages of code from a book to get a program to run, it took me forever and then I mis typed dome bits....fast forward a few decades plus change and I asked copilot to code me some ball physics simulation within a square. To my surprise it did it within 5 seconds..the progress is there, being able to do something like that by just talking is mindblowing. It took my regular sentence and translated that into a computer program, something functional. The tech is amazing and only getting better. Its only a matter of time when a layman would be able to say build me a 3d world and there it is. If I was a programmer I would be worried about the trajectory the tech is taking,nits only a question of when at this point!
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
When a layman can build a 3d model, what can non-laymen do? It's only going to empower our profession - not eliminate it. See my AI video (if you haven't already).
@user-ec7ne8rn5v 5 ай бұрын
This video was delivered just in the right moment
@SmallGuyonTop 5 ай бұрын
3:26 everyone's forgotten the hype around IoT
@digicinematic 5 ай бұрын
Not really. IoT was just rebranded as: The Edge.
@becbet1670 4 ай бұрын
Thank you ! really thank you What an amazing reasonable useful speech
@scvnthorpe__ 5 ай бұрын
I have a small github project where I wrote some automated tests in python and fed them to chatGPT asking if it could write code to pass these tests. This stuff can be really cool.
@Tvaroh 5 ай бұрын
Well put! This one made me finally subscribe. :)
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
Welcome to the channel! Appreciate your support :)
@saqibhussain9795 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much dude, you helped me a lot really a lot. You don't know but you did. May God bless you.
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
You're so very welcome!
@alexxx4434 5 ай бұрын
19:17 We came full circle: AI reducing the staff. I think at this point we should stop denying the fact that AI will lead to reduction of staff in many sectors, there is just no way around it.
@hermangachanja8838 Ай бұрын
needed to hear that from a pro senior developer
@EricCosner 4 ай бұрын
At my work, we’ve had vendors start sending us emails about how they are going to use AI for this and that, and some of them still haven’t implemented responsive web design. 😂 I’m an internal dev and sometimes I compete with these vendors, but I have plenty to do.
@cooltune 4 ай бұрын
I am actually waiting for that first article about a company dying a miserably and embarrassing death after it doubled down on no-code and AI. Not knowing what their code actually does or has been doing. Having no clue how to fix, debug or test it. No way of expanding, extending or modularizing it, cause the code has been optimized and made to work for 1 specific problem or use case. Basically being dead in the water after a flash in the pan successful launch. It's going to happen, no doubt.
@modemlooper 5 ай бұрын
It works both ways, as an independent developer I can now do 3x the work in the same time making more money
@kainx99 5 ай бұрын
Coders should not fear AI, AI is a tool, that can improve your productivity (ex: rubber ducking or just help you remember stuff) However, people (not just coders) should fear MBA-type executives that will wield AI... If they can sell their mother to make a buck, they would, so imagine them with something as powerful as AI in their hands, I can only fear what will happen.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
That's a good point. I think AI is generating some decent assets (not perfect), but it has to also nail incrementally changing those assets to replace programming. By then hopefully we'll all have mastered using it and programming will just evolve.
@alexxx4434 5 ай бұрын
Look at the other side of this potential issue: tons of people out of work also weilding the power of AI (there is already great progress in making LLM on consumer hardware accessible). What will these masses of people do? I don't think they will just curl up and die.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
@@alexxx4434 agree completely. Small business is what drives innovation and I think we're going to see a lot more of it.
@Meritumas 4 ай бұрын
Fully agree. Idiots EVPs from the company I work atm started talking about layoffs arguing that 30% of engineers will be replaced by AI.
@kostian8354 5 ай бұрын
Thank you, I believe this is what every new dev should hear! I would like to note that you shouldn't be a tool. You are not a wrench! Think about problems instead of technologies! Because solving problems is what gets you paid!
@ProjSHiNKiROU 5 ай бұрын
I remember other bogeymans: Programming getting outsourced to India, no-code or low-code
@JovemIrritadao 3 ай бұрын
Soft skills will be the new gold in new era. Knowing how and what to say and ask, better, thinking will be the new gold
@henrik908 4 ай бұрын
I needed this thanks man finally someone spoke the truth.
@donwinston 5 ай бұрын
I don’t know. I’ve been using Codeium which is not as ambitious as Copilot and I’m amazed what it can do. I think it is not a big leap to create systems that automatically generate entire libraries without human intervention resulting in fewer software engineers overall. I’m 60 so this probably won’t happen too much before I retire.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback. Absolutely agree the technologies are really great. One of the big weaknesses we need to overcome for them to really be viable in more situations is change management. Data migration and evolving API contracts has always been a challenge. Unless that problem is somehow completely handled and hidden, we'll still need engineers to work with the AI tooling for sophisticated products. Not sure how long this will be an issue, but there are still quite a few barriers we've been trying to solve as humans for years with software engineering that the AIs need to actually come up with better solutions for before jobs are truly threatened. Now if someone chooses to not use AI at all, that's just irresponsible. We should all be learning it in some way or another. But the main point I was trying to get across in this one is to make more strategic decisions about how to adopt using AI and not panic. Hopefully that came across on some level.
@YaraslauSauchanka 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. As one person said, "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises." It should be applied to the tech as well. All these promoters of different frameworks, platforms etc. care about their incomes first. If it'll be useful and convenient for developers - great, if not, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@milosCivejovidar 5 ай бұрын
Does anyone remember the Blockchain/NFT hype that was here just a year ago? Or maybe that embarrassing trend of spending money to buy JPEG pictures online was such a low point in the IT industry that it should be hidden and forgotten as fast as possible?
@dadlord689 5 ай бұрын
I was working on a project (a game). Basically all it's money was due to NFTs. It was not bad one, but poorly managed. So NFTs are kind of having their place now.
@jonasbaine3538 5 ай бұрын
also crypto exchanges getting shutdown and or put in JAIL. LUNA FTX BINANCE
@Msyo_Jaber Ай бұрын
Think you for diamond advice
@brutalbigmac 5 ай бұрын
A counterpoint to "you are the compiler": It's true that we, programmers, retain an advantage of understanding the code, but this might be a temporary state. In early days of C compilers, assembly programmers retained such advantage and felt they won't be replaced by the primitive, buggy tools. "The compiler doesn't know the bigger picture, doesn't grok a vision". For a while, they were right. The smart thing to do then was to cautiously start learning high-level languages and eventually embrace them, once the tools got good enough and the productivity gains outweighed the drawbacks. Stubbornly sticking to "real programming" was a mistake then and it's a mistake now. We no longer even look at compiled assembly, and perhaps in some years we'll no longer look at generated intermediate code, maybe we'll just code-review the prompts and test the output? But I agree with the main point - it won't happen tomorrow and there's nothing to gain by buying the hype. Keep an open mind, don't be dogmatic, learn at your pace, become a generalist, see what happens next.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for your feedback. There's some subtlety in this episode, but I think you'll find we're in agreement. I never actually claimed programming won't evolve, or that writing code will be the primary way we do this in perpetuity. As you (and the video) stated, this advantage may not last forever. But as an overall industry, I don't see us anywhere near that evaporating at the pace the big players would like you to believe. I agree with your premise.
@Meritumas 4 ай бұрын
Well, then at some point you end up arguing with coworkers not knowing what a bit and byte is and claiming to be senior folks.
@pmustoe 5 ай бұрын
Hmmm..there is no such thing as a silver bullet. AI is the latest silver bullet. Give it 3-5 years and there will be another. Learn a tool and apply it appropriately. Totally agree. Been in the biz since 94. Bullet++
@-----0----- 5 ай бұрын
Gartner hype cycle
@danthepyroman1 5 ай бұрын
Very good information
@toddboothbee1361 5 ай бұрын
Fear of what isnt really here to any significance, such as AI and Communists, is very destructive. Its important to keep one's prefrontal cortex online.
@Custodian123 4 ай бұрын
New to coding, learning python. Able to learn it 3x faster, because l can ask anything about the code l am implementing, about any part of the code, why it does what it does. And at the same time l can comfortably complete my Commerce degree mastering in accounting. It's true, harder for me to know where something is going wrong. But let me tell you, having to fix the code generated by AI has been fantastic. And now l am able to know where the code is likely going wrong and fix it (with AI 😂). Obviously, for anyone new this is great. Because nothing is on the line. Making things, breaking things, and fixing things is how l learn best. With AI, l can do this even faster. These are the worst the tools will ever be. These are some of the most powerful tools created. It's hard for me to wrap my head around how some people are not hyped for the potential.
@HealthyDev 4 ай бұрын
I think everyone is hyped for the potential. It's hype for predicted doomsday of programming as a job that's a problem!
@billatkin3956 2 ай бұрын
Good to see a rational appraisal of AI. Thank you!
@sealsharp 5 ай бұрын
Here's my advice: Become so good at your job that you can't google your problems and you can solve problems that can not be googled.
@piotrd.4850 5 ай бұрын
Given widespread detrimental effects of profound deterioration of ORGANIC intelligence, I am not concerned about actual AI AT ALL. Hype-prone management , on the other hand...
@dadlord689 5 ай бұрын
Very good point
@ismail-talb 4 ай бұрын
finally somebody saying something I can relate to .. thank you .
@abeidiot 5 ай бұрын
I'm loving it. I am conceptually good, handle architecture patterns well across different microservices , but I make too many small mistakes and get stuck in documentation and syntax a lot. copilot just makes me do the work of 4 people by myself and checks my code for common intern grade mistakes. It's like a perfect complement to my strengths It however, does decrease the importance of 'worker drone' software engineering, basically after a few more years of advances, what the tech lead does, will be software engineering and levels below that will be reserved for specialized work like embedded systems
@PranavJ-pz6bo 2 ай бұрын
Hey I am 16 years old and I do love computer programming and want to pursue a career in it. I loved your insightful video and tips to stay calm. So, do you think it is a wise decision to proceed with it in the advent of AI technologies. Can someone help me out ?
@HealthyDev 2 ай бұрын
In my opinion anyone learning software engineering today should learn it in tandem with AI technologies.
@PranavJ-pz6bo Ай бұрын
@@HealthyDevThank you sir. I love your content !
@uuuummm9 5 ай бұрын
I do not know what produces the impact (wars or AI) but it is definitely in place. Until the mid of this year I worked as a remote developer and my salary was 4.3K. I left the company because of the toxic atmosphere. Now I work for 2K. Switching to a temporary contract for 3.7K atm (still lower than it was before). Last year I was offered 5K twice. And there are lots of people in Linkdin around me who cannot find job for 6 months and longer. So there is definitely a problem in IT market.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
There are AI bots that spam apply for jobs for people now. LinkedIn jobs is all but useless for most people. I teach my coaching clients to use networking as their primary source for jobs now, it's the only way to not waste immense amounts of time on rejections.
@uuuummm9 5 ай бұрын
@@HealthyDev that is a useful information, thank you. Unfortunately I was not good at building my network so far.
@HealthyDev 5 ай бұрын
I had one coaching prospect on Jersey reach out to me last week, he's applied for 300 jobs this year and got 8 interviews. It's a losing game to try and get jobs that way. Even if you don't know people, you can reach out to them on LinkedIn if you have the premium subscription and build out your network. Just need to be respectful and start with an open conversation - don't go straight for "hey, you got a job?" etc.
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