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@0xabad1dea In programming these are the people, who get something that kind of works but they can't chase one outstanding bug from the AI generated code, nor can they even begin to understand how to find it as they don't really know what the code actually does.

I'm not seeing immediate threat to skilled software people any time soon, especially when the need to debug the AI slop starts to surface in a big way.

@0xabad1dea the person, when they realize that LLMs are entirely composed of algorithms:

@0xabad1dea doesn't every generation have this sort of rhetoric? There's some new skill/technology that comes about, and the newer generation wants to learn that new skill. However, the older generation still wants to feel relevant and like their skills are more important. So they will criticize and discredit anyone trying to learn this new skill

@0xabad1dea There's this old joke, I don't even know where I heard it first, about the econ major wanting to improve a farmer's financial outcomes.

The econ major visits the farmer regularly for a full year, duly makes his observations and notes everything the farmer does down. He goes back to his computer and crunches the numbers, applies all the modern tools and statistics. Then he comes back to the farmer and says: "So, I've crunched the numbers and done the statistics, and well ...

@0xabad1dea Insults of a geek. Love it!

@0xabad1dea wait I've just got to hahahahahahhahahahaha oh that's so silly

Hahahahahahahah

@0xabad1dea an "economics major". All we need to know about the author's competence 🤡

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But this makes perfect sense to a Harvard econ student who will probably become a venture capitalist. Real engineering builds real things that really work and it is hard. You can make money from them, but it is slow. This is not how the US tech economy works. Nonsense (prompt🤦‍♂️ ) engineering builds phony things that never work and it is easy. VCs pump and dump the nonsense things to make lots of money really fast. This is how the US tech economy works.

@0xabad1dea least soulless econ major

@0xabad1dea also, obviously: "prompt "engineering"" ???

@0xabad1dea I can’t count the times I had to explain that quadratic complexity doesn’t scale.

“But it works” was the usual reply while pointing to an example 1/100th of the size of a real world use case.

@0xabad1dea > you quadratic insert operation

God-DAMN, this almost needs a content warning… 😅

@0xabad1dea reading the article, and it's even worse than you describe. Written by a clueless fool.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/wyche-harvard-ai-education/

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Just remember, an economist is someone that can tell you tomorrow what went wrong yesterday.