>be me
>dropped out
>30 yo this year
>unemployed and a neet
>got interested in programming
>Devin.exe came out
>About to get replaced before my journey even starts
What's this AI thing? Will I have a future in programming if I invest my time learning this and where should I start?
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You have 5 years to get as much money as possible from the software industry. After that it's OGRE. LLM already went from markov chain word salads to being decent at pair programming in just a few years.
You have a few years to go, anon. AI still isn't at that level yet, despite how much better it's gotten.
AI won't ever get to that level where it'll completely replace programmers. Not in a few years, not in 10 or 20 years. The simple fact of the matter is there's much more to being a programmer than shitting out code, which is about the only thing these LLMs can do.
uh oh you haven't used claude opus
it's capable of better critical thinking and logical deduction than your average IQfy poster
I'm using all the LLMs I can find and none of them are of any help for any hard technical question. Even for high level stuff like "give me a workflow to make zig support my custom microcontroller"
reminds me when I asked ChatGPT some basic electronics work and it can answer basic shit, but will just make random shit up as you get more complex. It's insanely impressive how good it is at making up random shit though. it will even print out circuit diagrams and shit.
>Even for high level stuff like "give me a workflow to make zig support my custom microcontroller"
works for me, you just don't know how to prompt.
>AI still isn't at that level yet, despite how much better it's gotten.
When did IQfy become full of morons?
My school CS faculty is completely dismayed as to what to do about AI.
They already realize that many first year students know how to prompt better than professors who have been coding for decades.
>My school CS faculty is completely dismayed as to what to do about AI.
No shit. Those who cannot do, teach, and the average CS instructor can't even manage that anymore.
AI is not going to replace the majority of devs, at least not in our lifetime. It's going to replace the jeets and bootcampers that shouldn't have been allowed into the industry to begin with.
Finally. Destroy all boots. Frick boots.
>They already realize that many first year students know how to prompt better than professors who have been coding for decades.
thats not even a high bar bro
actually the bars still on the floor since the majority of prooompters are morons
>first year students know how to prompt better than professors who have been coding for decades.
Yeah but they can't write it without AI which is what the class is about. All the professors need to do is test the students on writing programs with paper and pencil. They'll stop using that AI real fast.
>prompt eng-
Sorry, I think you guys mistook my questions. I wanted to learn about the AI and making AIs that are capable of doing those stuff. Not turning into a moron prompt writer.
I made a firefox extension using claude opus, just make shit man it's really not that hard.
go through the beginner course on fast.ai and if you don't get filtered visit google.com and start googling.
sorry I forgot you're probably too stupid to figure out how to actually find the course so here's the direct link
https://course.fast.ai/
AI mcdonald slop tier outdated 2020 pajeet course. Nice try.
Fundamentals hasn't changed, though. You still have to know Bayesian probabilities and transformers.
Ok I'll give it a try. Hopefully it won't be another meme like sicp and clean code.
Another learning material if you want to get a grasp before getting started
subjects:
Calculus 1&2 (especially multivariable calculus) + Linear Algebra + Basic Statistics
MS beginner courses:
https://microsoft.github.io/AI-For-Beginners/
https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/#/
books:
An Introduction to Statstical Learning
Elements of Statistical Learning
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Classic ML, not deep learning)
Dive into Deep Learning (http://d2l.ai/)
Get a PhD (a master at least) if you really want to learn and get a decent AI/ML job. This is not even a shitposting, but reality.
You don't have to have a bachelor's if you want to get enrolled in a grad school but finish your major (or give it up if you dropped out of high school)
I'm too autistic to go to school again, anon.
Then learn not to be autistic first. AI/ML industry in general does care about your credential unless you have a repo with 10+ stars (you can make one if you're really lucky, just try reading source code of text-generation-webui. Its quality is mediocre at best)
>10+ stars
*10k+ stars
start by going to freecodecamp on youtube and learn whatever you're interested in. you still have time, just don't slack off.
everything else in this thread is worthless advice, this is good. succint. just werks.
the only realistic use for AI is shilling products on social media. just like you are shilling AI right now
I'm in a similar situation. I will be 30 in a few months. I didn't drop out but I've taken ages to finish my bachelor's degree. If all goes well it'll be done in a year. But I don't expect it will do much for me (an undergraduate in physics isn't really anything)
I've started learning C. started working through K&R and its exercises, it has been very fun and interesting. I had very light experience with other languages like Python but nothing much
Same but I'm 31 and I graduated 10 years ago lol.
they've been telling "it's over" for 15 years, especially on IQfy
Same but 25 and from a third world shithole, can't go to Wallmart and buy a 12 gauge to end my pathetic existence and can't just become a fricking wood worker or some shit unless I want to live in the slums sucking drug dealer dick.
As long as you're from Europe or America its never over, you can always work a menial job and earn more than a doctor in this worthless fricking place I call home.
>muhmuh we haz poverty hearr 2!!!!
Don't make me laugh.
hang in there, anon
it doesn't get better, but hang in there
to get replaced before my journey even starts
Anyone who actually thinks ai will replace people is ngmi
anyone who thinks AI won't displace workers in current positions is delusional
>Anyone who actually thinks adding buttons to an elevator will replace operators is ngmi
>Anyone who actually thinks adding self checkouts to stores will replace cashiers is ngmi
>Anyone who thinks adding OCR and voice transcription will replace data entry and transcriptionists is ngmi
>Anyone who thinks ATMs will replace bankers is ngmi
>Anyone who thinks gasoline powered vehicles will replace horses is ngmi
Gi into trades and have segfs with moriko san.
Remember when AI was going to take over all truck driving by 2020?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/31/autonomous-semi-truck-jobs-regulation/
they've been on the road since 2020
Why don't you just become IT janny such as network engineer, sys admin, or repair technician?
These are only done by Indians now
Learn prompt engineering.
>becomes rich
>mogs everyone by giving commands to a robot
Yes, you have plenty of time. Just as webshitters have plenty of work even after hundreds of ''glue together your own website'' services appeared on the web, so will you have work to do. Assuming that you're going to be any good at it of course. AI is 90% hype. Companies very often jump on this train for purely marketing reasons.
Only code monkeys get replaced you're better than that op
Join the CIA
Whoops, I mean join the CIA
Do not brothers.
Don't post that anime. The director is an anti semite
the new future
Aside from what the other anons mentioned:
Most of this sh*t is gonna be centralized and monthly-payment only and political-correctnessed to death so it won't allow you to do any of the cool shit like e.g. scraping manga from a online fanlation manga reader site, or creating browser extensions that make corporate services like youtube more bearable/useable.
It might help with a few bits here and there if these don't hint at what you want to do but it will flat out refuse to automatically create code when it is obvious that you are up to some digital "gang shit" (as the youngsters say) that might displease our corporate overlords.
>be a comp babby dropout moron
>um is AI GOING TO REPLACE ME? OMG I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
frick off. I hope you remain a jobless neet.
I'm not whinning, anon. I just don't know where to start learning about this thing to start making one like this