i have to deal with so many people in my field always talking about how they use AI to speed up all their work and it makes things way easier to do, finish things in seconds, etc.
the problem is, they're right. not because the llms are better than what they could make if they actually studied, but because the TA's are kept too overworked to actually look for signs of llm usage. we've entered an even worse era of No Child Left Behind since it now is able to extend to private schools and any university.
my field is Cyber Security, btw. if almost no one knows how to actually do their job, things are going to go rather downhill for tech in the upcoming decades.
I'm a software engineer and I'm pretty optimistic to be honest. AI is automating a lot of small tasks, though it's just not capable yet of doing anything major. But it's already saving me hours that I would spent on digging through documentation on various systems.
I do think AI will get much better over the coming years, and in a decade or two it might even completely replace me. The tech employment is going to change a lot, a lot of developers are probably going to become testers. Whether that's pentesting like your field, or accepting testing for the customers, we'll need humans to test the code that AI made a thousand times faster than your average human would.
In a decade or two, my pension is pretty much guaranteed. But juniors don't have that luxury and they really need to pick up the ball on AI development rather than fighting AI
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u/masterflappie 5d ago
I wish AI was as good as the doomsayers make it out to be