I’ve been chewing on a question that isn’t really about AI: what part of programming was I actually in love with? Not the software. The act. And once I’m honest about the answer, the “am I worth less now” panic going around stops making sense to me. Not because the panic is silly, but because it’s aimed at the wrong target, and because the comforting answer to it is also wrong.
ThePrimeagen’s talk “I suck”, a talk he gave under the working title “what is my value,” opens with the question he says he gets from his audience constantly, sometimes from people in real distress: “Is everything I’ve done for the last… twenty years, is it worthless? Am I worth less now?”