I’m hoping to exit the industry (eg., retire) as soon as is practical. It’s just not fun any more and this was the shit-icing on the cake for me.
Now, LLMs being used to check for vulnerabilities… that I’m not really against, machine-learning is good at pattern recognition and it seems to be legitimately useful at that from what I’ve heard.
But as ‘intelligence’ or a trustworthy search mechanism for retrieving and re-synthesizing (note I did not use the words ‘authoring’ or ‘creating’) anything more than simple standalone functions? Nope, nope nope. Too many hallucinations and I didn’t fall in love with programming and computer science only to end up being a reverse centaur, slaving away at prompts to actively steer a stochastic slot-machine into writing the proper code for a task.
I still need 3-4 years probably, minimum :(. I feel really badly for younger people having to deal with this shit. I’m also in a sub-field which doesn’t seem yet to have been hit so hard with all this BS. Sooo glad I didn’t become a JS/web developer, it sounds like vibe-coding and swarms of agents have taken over.
I retired at 55 and I highly recommend it. Actually I’m not sure that I’m retired or just quit working. I worked for myself and decided I didn’t want to deal with people anymore so I’ve just stayed home for the last 11 years. Ether way it’s been great!
That seems similar to my path. Covid put me on the remote worker world, so we packed up and hit the road. Moved to a remote small town near vast nature. Bought a nice house on the river.
I’m also self employed and doing normal near retirement things. Currently on a 3-6 month contract for an ex employer in the financial space doing AI security stuff.
Then I’ll take the winter off and snowboard every day.
I’m hoping to exit the industry (eg., retire) as soon as is practical. It’s just not fun any more and this was the shit-icing on the cake for me.
Now, LLMs being used to check for vulnerabilities… that I’m not really against, machine-learning is good at pattern recognition and it seems to be legitimately useful at that from what I’ve heard.
But as ‘intelligence’ or a trustworthy search mechanism for retrieving and re-synthesizing (note I did not use the words ‘authoring’ or ‘creating’) anything more than simple standalone functions? Nope, nope nope. Too many hallucinations and I didn’t fall in love with programming and computer science only to end up being a reverse centaur, slaving away at prompts to actively steer a stochastic slot-machine into writing the proper code for a task.
“stochastic slot machine” What a great description. I have to remember that one. :)
I envy those that can retire soon. I’m halfway through my career, not enough money to retire yet.
I still need 3-4 years probably, minimum :(. I feel really badly for younger people having to deal with this shit. I’m also in a sub-field which doesn’t seem yet to have been hit so hard with all this BS. Sooo glad I didn’t become a JS/web developer, it sounds like vibe-coding and swarms of agents have taken over.
I’m 50 and in the process of retiring. It’s such a fitting exit. I’ll ride the slop wagon into the sunset.
I retired at 55 and I highly recommend it. Actually I’m not sure that I’m retired or just quit working. I worked for myself and decided I didn’t want to deal with people anymore so I’ve just stayed home for the last 11 years. Ether way it’s been great!
That seems similar to my path. Covid put me on the remote worker world, so we packed up and hit the road. Moved to a remote small town near vast nature. Bought a nice house on the river.
I’m also self employed and doing normal near retirement things. Currently on a 3-6 month contract for an ex employer in the financial space doing AI security stuff.
Then I’ll take the winter off and snowboard every day.
In this day and age, you can’t take that as anything but a win! Best of luck to your disembarking from the reality’s of life!