You are saying programming IS going to go back to what it was? If yes, great! But how exactly? Why would anyone do that and why would companies want that?
I think Op did not claime that "programming is going back to what it was" because even the point we should be going back to is not agreed where it should be. It's a profession always in flux.
On the other hand, "you're a prompt engineer or you're fired" just reeks of psychosis. Things will change, they will never be the same, perhaps the profession will contract. But there sure as hell will still be people thinking deeply about their code and crafting it.
And if it comes, it comes. I have no doubt a model can be as good or better than humans. I don't think humans are the peak of possibly. I just don't think the current crop of models will get there. And I do not think fast takeoff will happen. In the meantime, I keel hearing psychotic chants of "don't even read the code anymore, bro!" While the code these things output is severely lacking. At this point, it _is_ cool-aid.
> I keel hearing psychotic chants of "don't even read the code anymore, bro!"
In just these seven months since Claude got good, I'm at $5M annualized at 65% MoM growth with 30% margins and plenty of opportunity to take that to 70%+. As a dev team of essentially one.
You're in a new game. Stop thinking with preconceived notions and take full advantage of it.
There are going to be a lot of winners and losers with this disruption. Don't lock yourself into the old regime because you grew up on newspaper.
I'd like to consider myself somewhere towards the middle of the spectrum on AI outlook, but posts like yours in this thread depress me. It's difficult for me not to see it as spreading FOMO so that you can gain financially.
When's the last time you worked as an IC? Is there any reason to take your opinions on "my job" seriously when downward pressure on salaries is only beneficial to you and whatever AI companies you're attempting to start?
"The world will be better off as a whole". Why do you think this? How are you contributing to making the world better with AI? Is there any reason that's not related to making money?
I'm trying to help you by sharing and you're choosing to be dark and gloomy about it. I can only help so much.
What you did a few years ago will likely dry up as a source of supporting you and your family. There is all kinds of new value to create in the world. Find the calling that is meaningful to you. Go cure cancer instead of plumbing widgets and wizbobs at 100k QPS active-active five nines SLA.
Just don't stay as a gas station pump attendant, butter churner, or elevator button presser.
And it's also wild that you assume what I'm doing doesn't bring value to the world. There's a film being released theatrically in a few months that directly incorporates what I've worked on. I've been a filmmaker for decades outside of tech and that is deeply meaningful to me.
I didn’t assume, I asked. But you’re being particularly condescending, so I guess that’s where we’re at.
“Directly incorporates” is pretty vague and still seems like it’s financial, but good for you. I hope it’s something that assists artists and doesn’t replace them. Personally it’s hard for me to find meaning in something like that, given the thread’s context of “I don’t even look at the code”. What craft was done? In what way is the movie better now? It’s cheaper?
I won’t endorse glee about anyone losing their job, even if it means people with a lot of freedom can throw things at the wall and see what sticks. Same story as always, it’s just faster now.
I wasn't being condescending, that's just text's inability to encode delivery.
You don't look at the bytecode you produce. You don't know 99.99% of your stack. You are a master of abstraction and you always have been. This is just a different flavor of the same recipe.
You've got a tool that will let you execute at greater breadth than ever before. Like what it must've been like for the very first engineers who had access to the internet or the first libraries or package managers.
Job flux is demand finding new salients. Employment hasn't dipped as far as I can tell. There are more exciting opportunities now than ever before, you just have to step into it.
If your logic is right, people back in the Stone Age were all like Jeff Bezos with mega yachts and stuff... It all went downhill from then - the population has increased so much and everyone has gotten so much poorer :(
if wealth is money in this context, and printing is creation in this context, what is the difference between printing money and creating wealth? the new money went somewhere. if i remember correctly it went indiscriminately to business owners, with no stipulations on how it was spent, and then blanket forgiven with no questions asked. to my mind that is wealth creation and the root cause of the inflation we've seen since (the printing not just the PPP)
as a new graphene adopter, still figuring stuff out myself, but it's been surprisingly easy and satisfying to do a hard cut-over to graphene.
cool_cherry explained exactly how I've been using it, with my main 'owner' account not having play services installed at all, only instead installed on another user, which only takes a few seconds to switch to.
you can easily install owner apps onto other user profiles.
or grant/forbid the other user profiles to install apps themselves.
users are not tied to google accounts, only your google play installations.
I was able to install google play apps on 'owner' user and then uninstalled google play services and play store. if they don't require play services to function, they work fine, otherwise they just might not function or may function/look surprisingly differently when they don't have their network connections.
location, network, other permission have defaults and can set them on per-app basis like on normal android.
a unique device MAC address is generated for each wifi connection.
It's worth noting they're still regular sandboxed apps regardless of whether you use dedicated profiles for this. The main reason to use a separate profile for this is for fine-grained control over which apps can/will use Google Play. Apps in the same profile can see it's there and choose to use it.
For example, Signal will use Google Play services for push notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) when it's in the same profile. If it's not there, Signal uses their own inefficient WebSocket-based push which uses significantly more power due to lack of optimization. Molly is a fork of Signal with support for UnifiedPush as an efficient alternative to FCM.
Many apps from the Play Store don't use Play services, while many others be used with or without Play services where they may have extra functionality or different behavior when Play services is available. Others have a hard dependency on it.
There are many other ways to apps to get apps than the Play Store. For getting apps from the Play Store, there's both the sandboxed Play Store and Aurora Store as options. Play Store requires an account for installing/updating apps but it can be a throwaway one like the ones Aurora Store uses by default. Note Aurora Store does not currently check the store's signature metadata to secure the initial install better than HTTPS alone.
examine your network when you plug a roku in. then read their privacy policy if you want to see someone give LG a run for their money.
then there's our pocket PCs...
and don't forget about the biggest customers of this "advertising" data.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-g...
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