Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future?
I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, because a lot of the tedium of dealing with boilerplate and implementation details can be smoothed away with AI. I do enjoy my current position more than I have ever before.
But I don't know if I'm optimistic about the future. I think software engineers are still essential, or at least that the skill of software engineering is still essential, but I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough.
They had more outages years ago and now it is cronic, and can confirm GitHub is completely unreliable. You should expect an outage almost every week at this point.
I'm convinced that their wreckless AI chatbots such as Tay.ai [0] with Copilot have been maintaining Github and have replaced the employees at GitHub.
Let me guess, in the next 6 months, Elixir and Erlang becoming fashionable to build AI agents and then another hype cycle of AI usage and marketing of Elixir.
What's old is now rebranded, reheated and new again.
Elixir has always been fashionable to build high performance systems in. In fact, it is more suited for AI applications than any other language or framework because of the BEAM architecture and the flexibility of the language itself. I wish more people gave it a chance. You get insane performance at your fingertips with so much scalability out of the box and your code by default is less error prone compared to dynamic languages.
Local LLMs gives you the freedom to use a model without a third-party vendor which is the whole point here.
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