About to finish my 18th year in tech, more than half was meaningless work much like the subject of the article experienced. Had to grind up to almost VP level in a Fortune 500 before I was able to call my own shots.
Business people are very bad at software and its pretty common for developers to be asked to build things simply so that suits can actually see it and understand it........ and then toss it away or have it be obsoleted in the time it took to create... done it many times myself. Soul draining
I'd compare it to building a house without a blueprint just so you can walk around it..... then decide if you like the floorplan or not.
AI will help a lot there (well, "help" depending on which side of the equation you're on)... can get pretty far in prototyping and quite adept at handling loads of the grunt work involved in software... its already pretty good and not hard to imagine it being fantastic in 2-3 years time
I use AI (mostly GPT4) a lot like you... a professional assistant of sorts. Absolutely irreplaceable as a "good enough" helper... for 1/10000th the cost
surprised I dont see more praise on GPT for that kind of thing, I just think that tech is so top heavy now and those big orgs are more afraid of GPT than enthusiastic.... for startup/independent types its a dream come true
Article #2... all familiar notes to me.
About to finish my 18th year in tech, more than half was meaningless work much like the subject of the article experienced. Had to grind up to almost VP level in a Fortune 500 before I was able to call my own shots.
Business people are very bad at software and its pretty common for developers to be asked to build things simply so that suits can actually see it and understand it........ and then toss it away or have it be obsoleted in the time it took to create... done it many times myself. Soul draining
I'd compare it to building a house without a blueprint just so you can walk around it..... then decide if you like the floorplan or not.
AI will help a lot there (well, "help" depending on which side of the equation you're on)... can get pretty far in prototyping and quite adept at handling loads of the grunt work involved in software... its already pretty good and not hard to imagine it being fantastic in 2-3 years time
I use AI (mostly GPT4) a lot like you... a professional assistant of sorts. Absolutely irreplaceable as a "good enough" helper... for 1/10000th the cost
surprised I dont see more praise on GPT for that kind of thing, I just think that tech is so top heavy now and those big orgs are more afraid of GPT than enthusiastic.... for startup/independent types its a dream come true