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For some background, I originally wanted to break into programming back when I was in college but drifted more into desktop tech support and now systems administration. SysAdmin work is draining me, though, and I want to pick back up programming and see if I can make a career out of it, but industry seems like it could be moving in a direction to rely on AI for coding. Everything I've heard has said AI is not there yet, but if it's looking like it hits a point where it reaches an ability to fully automate coding, should I even bother? Am I going to be obsolete after a year? Five years?

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

It you can pair coding with something in engineering with physics, there's a lot less chance of that happening. That said AI taking programming jobs is still a long ways off if it ever gets there even.

A lot of programs you ask chatGPT to write have a lot of nonsense in them, so someone has to manually sift through fake api calls, or just flat out incorrect algorithms. That said it's not a bad starting point if you are a seasoned expert and can sift through all that stuff.

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