this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
99 points (91.6% liked)
Programming
25740 readers
495 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.
All of this current change has happened over fewer years than that. Hard to predict when it will slow back down again.
LLMs have already hit a ceiling, the improvements between new model releases are pretty much negligible. They had to come up with very expensive agents checking the output to reduce hallucinations. The best example for that is GPT-5 from OpenAI, which was extremely underwhelming.
So. I’m a developer and I really dislike ai, am having pretty bad anxiety about the future because I’m also a bit older and I think pivoting to another career would be unlikely.
I started using agentic ai because there has been a massive push at work, with the usual talk saying that workers who use ai will replace workers who don’t
While I dread it and would love it to completely go away, I’ve been very surprised with the newer models like opus 4.6. The older gpt models were a bit “dumb” but opus feels different. Which makes me terrified of the future.
I really hope they hit a wall soon and don’t get any better than that
The lack of intelligence is inherent for LLMs: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/
This is likely why Apple is the only big tech company that hasn't entered the AI race with tons of debt and tons of data centers. They're likely seeing the writing on the wall.
While there could be a new technique arriving to solve this some day, there also may never be one.
My concern is not the intelligence.
It’s good enough today to pattern match quite well and what we see as intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s what it need to replace most of us.
I tried copy pasting an issue today on copilot and it gave a solution and tests to me that worked.
I did very small adjustments to the code and I have to say the request wasn’t that well written and it was a slightly difficult thing to solve and it did “one shot” it. I just hate this so much. These newer models are definitely not fully replacing us but it did make me fix an issue much quicker than it takes me to run the unit tests.
I really hope that the Jevons paradox applies to this and well all have plenty of jobs after this solidifies and we find out their real limits. I just have daily dread about ai I hate that we’re going to increase even more the divide between the super rich and the rest, hopefully I’m being too negative or when governments lose all their tax revenue and people are about to revolt they’ll do something
I think most companies who replace junior coders with AI are coders are betting on that. If this really becomes the dominant approach but the bet fails, it is probably gonna take down whole lot of infrastructure with it making programming even more highly sought after skill. The other option is the bet will hold and classical programming will become mostly obselete, perhaps remaining mostly as an academic research topic.