OpenAI, ChatGPT and Generative AI

[AmareIsGod]

I found this essay, about the new role of the programmer in the current world of AI, interesting. I think the author is largely right, that the human in the loop changes their role from coder to curator; you are now the idea-generator and assurer of quality. But ... I like coding. I am pretty sure I dislike this change and that I don't really want to work for 20 more years as a curator. Career identity crisis!

https://staltz.com/from-coder-to-curator

I got out at just the right time.

Yes you did. It's a crazy world working in the AI space directly.

[Mori Chu]

How much time have you spent in Cursor with Claude Code or anything similar as it relates to coding with AI tools?

I am currently on parental leave, so I haven't used them for a few months, but before that I was using Claude Code and Cursor both pretty regularly at my work. I mostly disliked using them. Their quality for many tasks was pretty good, but like the linked article says, they changed my role too much for my liking. The tools would just spit out lots and lots of code, and now my whole day was spent carefully reading through it to make sure no horrible bugs were hiding inside. I didn't find it very much fun. But I guess this is the way things are heading. I liked the AI for simple features/fixes and for generating unit tests. For writing big things I mostly didn't like looking through its output. And I really disliked the fact that everybody ELSE on my team would use the AI to spit out a whole feature, then submit it to me to review, often without extensively testing or verifying it themselves; wasted a bunch of my time.

[AmareIsGod]

How much time have you spent in Cursor with Claude Code or anything similar as it relates to coding with AI tools?

I am currently on parental leave, so I haven't used them for a few months, but before that I was using Claude Code and Cursor both pretty regularly at my work. I mostly disliked using them. Their quality for many tasks was pretty good, but like the linked article says, they changed my role too much for my liking. The tools would just spit out lots and lots of code, and now my whole day was spent carefully reading through it to make sure no horrible bugs were hiding inside. I didn't find it very much fun. But I guess this is the way things are heading. I liked the AI for simple features/fixes and for generating unit tests. For writing big things I mostly didn't like looking through its output. And I really disliked the fact that everybody ELSE on my team would use the AI to spit out a whole feature, then submit it to me to review, often without extensively testing or verifying it themselves; wasted a bunch of my time.

Definitely was my experience as well. Very code heavy.

[virtual9mm]

Irresponsible for OpenAI to release a model with hidden reasoning. We're pretty fucked.

[AmareIsGod]

'The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically

https://gizmodo.com/the-people-building ... 2000808968

[virtual9mm]

Talked to a senior guy at Anthropic and apparently the media is misreporting this. Reasoning was not moved to latent space. Just being shown to users less often.

[Mori Chu]

Don't know whether this is interesting or not. But I'm back at work now after a paternity leave for my recent baby, and it's amazing how much AI has completely changed our workplace. We use AI for almost 100% of our coding now, almost never directly writing or touching code. We mostly just review or test the code the AI wrote. In a way it's much faster, because the AI can just spit out usually-correct code at a very high rate. But it doesn't feel like the same job; it isn't very much fun to just look over work the AI made, like I'm its babysitter or caretaker or something. Really feels a lot different than it did a year ago.

I was also using the AI (Claude Code) on some home projects while I was away on leave, to make sure I was up-to-date on it when I came back. It does a pretty impressive job on most tasks. Older models would struggle and would often write convoluted code that did solve the problem but did so in a clunky or inelegant way. But the more recent advances have improved it to the point where it writes great code that basically is just as good or better than what I would write myself.

Is being a software engineer a dying job? What will motivate young students to learn to code, or learn about computer science, in the future? Maybe it'll become a low-salary job done by a much smaller group of people, largely overseas. It really feels like things are permanently changed and won't ever be going back.

[Superbone]

Don't know whether this is interesting or not. But I'm back at work now after a paternity leave for my recent baby, and it's amazing how much AI has completely changed our workplace. We use AI for almost 100% of our coding now, almost never directly writing or touching code. We mostly just review or test the code the AI wrote. In a way it's much faster, because the AI can just spit out usually-correct code at a very high rate. But it doesn't feel like the same job; it isn't very much fun to just look over work the AI made, like I'm its babysitter or caretaker or something. Really feels a lot different than it did a year ago.

I was also using the AI (Claude Code) on some home projects while I was away on leave, to make sure I was up-to-date on it when I came back. It does a pretty impressive job on most tasks. Older models would struggle and would often write convoluted code that did solve the problem but did so in a clunky or inelegant way. But the more recent advances have improved it to the point where it writes great code that basically is just as good or better than what I would write myself.

Is being a software engineer a dying job? What will motivate young students to learn to code, or learn about computer science, in the future? Maybe it'll become a low-salary job done by a much smaller group of people, largely overseas. It really feels like things are permanently changed and won't ever be going back.

I find it very interesting. Talking to my former co-workers, I'm hearing the same types of things. And now non-technical people can have apps built for them without having to go to a programmer. I'm glad I got out right before the AI boom.

[AmareIsGod]

Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/us/p ... roid-share

[Mori Chu]

I don't want to get into a partisan political discussion, but I think it's possible to find a balance where we still innovate in AI while having some kind of reasonable regulations or safeguards, oversight into the industry. Seems like it's kind of the Wild West right now, which I am not sure is the best policy going forward as AI becomes more and more important and more intelligent.

[TOO]

Yes, make AI smarter while also making humanity dumber. It's genius.

[Superbone]

Yes, make AI smarter while also making humanity dumber. It's genius.

Heading straight toward Cyberdyne.