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Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers (www.pcgamer.com)
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[+] -6 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Because GTAV made over $700 million last year on 12 year old ip. They are in absolutely zero rush to release a sequel that may or may not flop in an era when it's clear that 90-100% of programming jobs will be eliminated within a decade.

Every programmer they replace with ai now is one less bonus to pay out after release.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I'm guessing you haven't actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    That's exactly what we keep yelling at the companies that keep trying, but some of them don't listen, fire their staff for AI, and then regret it a few months later.

    Just because it is incredibly awful does not mean stupid fucks in charge of companies won't do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah my company is going through this at the moment. I'm super duper hoping I get fired because I've worked for the company long enough that I'll get an a bit over a year worth of severance. That's just about long enough for them to realise that they actually need us and then they can rehire us back at a higher rate. As per established process.

    It's going to be excellent.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON'T be replaced by AI within a decade? I realize there are limitations but I think exponential growth is difficult to see within the first three years. We are currently in year three.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Do you write code?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If so, is it any good?

    I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it's easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they're like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn't learn. Useful when one can't be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.

    It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn't ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I've cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.

    "Spit this into a json"

    It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%

    Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I'd rather die

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