The way AI makes me sad was best described either by Joel or some guy he was interviewing, way before LLMs. I went into IT/CS to assemble and repair intricate clockwork mechanisms, not to train puppies to not pee on the carpet.
Training ML models and data cleanup was already tedious and boring, and "prompt engineering" makes me want to blow my brains out (I work in a company with enough resources and tooling so those are not a problem). I'd rather go debug a memory leak in an old unmaintained C codebase ;)
Training ML models and data cleanup was already tedious and boring, and "prompt engineering" makes me want to blow my brains out (I work in a company with enough resources and tooling so those are not a problem). I'd rather go debug a memory leak in an old unmaintained C codebase ;)