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  • Buttons@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlwhat u actually signed up for
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    2 months ago

    Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.

    If I’m a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I’m a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone’s money and is essential to the entire nation, I’m paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.

    If I’m a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.

    (Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)









  • I think the joke is that the Jr. Developer sits there looking at the screen, a picture of a cat appears, and the Jr. Developer types “cat” on the keyboard then presses enter. Boom, AI in action!

    The truth behind the joke is that many companies selling “AI” have lots of humans doing tasks like this behind the scene. “AI” is more likely to get VC money though, so it’s “AI”, I promise.