AI Is Here And Students You Are Screwed If You Don't Take Action | Prime Reacts

Vibe coding? Nah I can write dogshit code all by myself thanks don't need an AI to do it for me

Can’t wait when the headlines are “we built our entire infrastructure with AI, now we’re being regularly hacked and no one here know how to even find the holes or how to fix them.”

So this student: 1. Wrote the whole app initially 2. Identified that the app needed a re-write into a different language 3. Use AI for a rewrite in a different language and not to actually make code from scratch. 4. Understood the codebase well enough to know how it should be split into chunks to be fed into the AI 5. Tested the Ai output 6. Needed to know when the AI was spitting something usable vs when it had a bug 7. Debugged the code 8. Point the AI into a better direction architecturally (needed to know what a good vs bad directions look like in the first place) 9. Validated that code did what was intended at the end Bro did like 80% of the work for a code rewrite (one of the few things we know it's decent at) and somehow concludes that juniors are screwed? Your senior devs are busy sitting in meetings setting requirement, supporting other teams, answering emails, looking at larger architecture decision. The example was AI making a Junior ~20% more efficient at one specific task. That's hardly being replaced.

4:45 Prime: aight Flip take it out Flip: <laughs in Cursor>

22:01 “Skills you learned from GPT 3.5” making violent threats until the model behaves as desired.

Notice at the same time managers are excited about AI, the same managers are desperate to implement "return to office" orders. This is because the ability of managers to read and write is crashing at a much faster rate than AI is improving. Their need for talk and meetings is skyrocketing, they can't understand or remember anything technical, without talking to a person they have nothing to do all day. This means there will be a strong market for human coders who can act like caretakers for managers with early-onset dementia.

Good point about the trades, my sister got a 2 year degree in drinking and wastewater management, she's now a green badge at Intel doing facilities maintenance, makes almost $40/hr and is pretty much immune to layoffs even with Intel's problems because she & her coworkers keep the facility running. The only way they'd lay her off is if Intel shut down completely. And if that happened she could easily go back to working for a municipality treating drinking water and sewage. She's basically recession-proof.

The "get on AI now or lose out" is very weird. If you have are on track and you have a job/you are learning then the best strategy is to learn about them but not use them in any meaningful way. Doing things without AI requires more of you, so you maximize your growth. The AI tools will always be designed to be easy to get into, so if they become necessary you can use them to multiply your abilities. If you use them when you don't have to you are stunting your growth for no reason. It is useful to learn about them so that you can get a job in a trendy company if you wish, but that's about it

Ok, that was HILLAROUS. At 36:00 there's a thing saying "AI Can just replace any SAAS product." ThePrimeTime announces he's getting up and can't even, and then IMMEDIATELY I get a YouTube break for an AI programming tool. Thank you ThePrimeTime for confirming my biases.

Isnt this coincidental, that the1 chart presented at the beginning of the video looks INSANELY SIMILAR to the Dunning-Krugger "confidence in skill against personal experience" chart?