How I lost my (old) job to AI

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.

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Featuring:

• Sharon DiOrio – X
• Steven Pyle – LinkedIn
• Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

अध्यायों

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:45)

https://coder.com/

3. Meet the guests (00:04:00)

4. SSI (00:18:04)

5. A good use for AI (00:25:21)

6. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:32:16)

https://fly.io/

7. Copilot is getting better (00:35:22)

8. What if AI worked? (00:39:10)

9. AI verification (00:45:32)

10. Oracle (00:57:18)

11. Sponsor: JetBrains (00:58:55)

https://www.jetbrains.com/go

12. The AI is racist? (01:02:13)

13. Unpopular Opinions! (01:07:41)

14. Sharon's unpop (01:08:14)

15. Kent's unpop (01:09:09)

16. Steve's unpop (01:10:34)

17. Johnny's unpop (01:13:45)

18. Outro (01:16:57)