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When 'Learn to Code' Gets an AI-Powered Reply
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When 'Learn to Code' Gets an AI-Powered Reply

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A four-panel Wojak comic that contrasts the years 2010 and 2023 to illustrate a reversal of economic fortunes. In the top half, dated 2010, a distraught Doomer Wojak in a hard hat and smoking a cigarette says, 'THE PLANT I'VE WORKED ALL MY LIFE HAS SHUT DOWN AND MY HOME TOWN IS DYING.' Next to him, a smug Soyjak Wojak sips from a carton of organic soy milk and retorts, 'LMAO LEARN TO CODE.' In the bottom half, dated 2023, the same Soyjak is now rendered as a pink, enraged, and veiny mess, screaming, 'NOOOOO!!!! A.I. JUST REPLACED MY PROGRAMMING JOB!!!!' In the final panel, a calm and confident Chad Wojak looks on and advises, 'LMAO LEARN TO WELD.' The meme critiques the once-common refrain that coding is a universally secure career path, highlighting the irony of programmers now facing their own displacement by AI, just as they once dismissed the plight of blue-collar workers

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The 'learn to code' movement forgot to add a disclaimer: skill is a temporary variable, but the demand for skilled trades is a constant
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The 'learn to code' movement forgot to add a disclaimer: skill is a temporary variable, but the demand for skilled trades is a constant

  2. Anonymous

    Twenty years of splitting monoliths into microservices, and HR’s new upskilling plan is “learn to split I-beams with a plasma cutter” - on the plus side, steel never bikesheds your code style

  3. Anonymous

    After 15 years of telling displaced factory workers to 'just learn to code,' senior engineers are discovering that GitHub Copilot doesn't need their carefully crafted abstractions, SOLID principles, or heated debates about tabs vs spaces - turns out the real job security was in trades that require physical presence and can't be solved by a transformer model trained on Stack Overflow

  4. Anonymous

    The ultimate irony: we spent decades automating everyone else's jobs with deterministic scripts and ML models, confidently telling displaced workers to 'learn to code.' Now that LLMs can generate boilerplate React components and debug stack traces, we're discovering that welding robots still can't handle the edge cases of real-world fabrication. Turns out the hardest problems to automate aren't the ones we thought - they're the ones that require physical dexterity, spatial reasoning, and dealing with the chaotic entropy of the material world. Who knew that 'move fast and break things' doesn't work when you're joining structural steel?

  5. Anonymous

    After AI took CRUD, my roadmap updated from AbstractFactory to ActualFactory - finally a join that won’t fail in prod

  6. Anonymous

    We’ve been welding brittle microservices together with YAML, retries, and circuit breakers since 2016 - no PPE, just PagerDuty

  7. Anonymous

    The ultimate tech debt: a 13-year sprint to obsolescence, now refactoring careers into eventual weld consistency

  8. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

    What is weld?

    1. @uebuntu 2y

      aka making money rn

  9. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

    Thanks for improving my English

  10. Deleted Account 2y

    4 (5) Russians talking in English, lmao

    1. @Dorikan 2y

      English only chat.

  11. @Regalusarm 2y

    ai is stupid so much, they cant replacing our job.

    1. Manuel 2y

      For now

      1. @ckm_nodoma 2y

        for next 10+ years

    2. Felix 2y

      Most humans don’t care enough to notice

      1. @Assarbad 2y

        fortunately the code written is meant for the computers, not for humans

    3. @Agent1378 2y

      Mgimo finished?

    4. @dwanford 2y

      so are we

  12. @MagnusEdvardsson 2y

    Thinking that writing code is all there is to be a developer is like thinking that writing a prescription is all there is to be a doctor.

  13. @mariiakostenko 2y

    These people who think AI will create all infrastructure for they fucking candy crush game <3

  14. @Bitals 2y

    Welding is actually cool, a lot of IT professionals I know (me included) have some manual work skills and use them for fun. The difference is, in most of the world IT guys have the ability to buy welding tools and learn to use them in their free time, while most welders are unable to build a homelab and develop IT skills that easily.

    1. @apopov_spb 2y

      Why wouldnt welders be able to build homelab enough for learning it? You don't really need expensive hardware for that

      1. @pnlt_s 2y

        welding machine and materials to work with¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ imo welders just don't have that much spare time

  15. @Bitals 2y

    Well, even in these parts of the world if you are a really good welder you will get paid way more than an average developer. It's just that like 20% of welders earn as much as 50% of developers do.

  16. @fll_fll_fll 2y

    AI will not replace you (now), but it will increase the productivity of professionals in all areas. In other words: indirectly replacing people Greetings from Brazil 💌

  17. @qwnick 2y

    2023 is almost ended, AI still didn't replaced noticeable percent of people in programming, wtf is this meme about?

  18. @elpetro9 2y

    50 men

  19. @ercolebellucci 2y

    its 2023 and i'll start in few month programing and machine learning, how dumb am i

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