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re: Will "Learn to Weld" become the new "Learn to Code" with AI coming for the coding jobs?
Posted on 12/22/25 at 2:12 pm to CapnKangaroo
Posted on 12/22/25 at 2:12 pm to CapnKangaroo
The absolute easiest part of my job is the coding portion. That's what people not in the industry do not understand.
You can have the most advanced "AI" engine available today and it sits there idle until I tell it what to do.
You can have the most advanced "AI" engine available today and it sits there idle until I tell it what to do.
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Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:23 am to blueboy
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Yeah, really, and much faster too
Well you can go ahead and believe this if you want but you would be wrong. Been in the industry for a long time. Humans always have to go behind and repair the defects left behind by the robots.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:45 am to BoogaBear
What happens when everyone becomes a welder or a plumber?
Neither of which are rocket science. Sure, it takes some years to get all the skills but it’s not all that difficult.
Nobody really knows where AI and robots will leave us but it’s clearly taking the brainy jobs first. When you can get a robot for $10k that can download carpentry or electrical then what?
Best thing you can hope for is to not get caught in the first few waves of the new robotic revolution. Before 50% of jobs are taken, they going to figure out how to keep everyone from starving. But don’t count on it.
Neither of which are rocket science. Sure, it takes some years to get all the skills but it’s not all that difficult.
Nobody really knows where AI and robots will leave us but it’s clearly taking the brainy jobs first. When you can get a robot for $10k that can download carpentry or electrical then what?
Best thing you can hope for is to not get caught in the first few waves of the new robotic revolution. Before 50% of jobs are taken, they going to figure out how to keep everyone from starving. But don’t count on it.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 12:09 pm to Roaad
Maybe for a year or two but once Elon plugs Grok into Optimus that's over too. Everyone will have the worlds greatest welder making them sandwiches and cleaning their toilets.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 1:51 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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Been in the industry for a long time.
What industry? Certainly not any mass manufacturing industry requiring a lot of robotic welding. Robotic welding will run circles around a human with virtually zero failures and less waste (time and materials.)
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Humans always have to go behind and repair the defects left behind by the robots.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 1:59 pm to LemmyLives
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None of this matters. Five H1Bs are cheaper than one citizen, and 20 Indians in Hyderabad are cheaper than five H1Bs.
Fixing AI written code is way harder than fixing human written code.
It requires a much higher level of software language knowledge.
I've done both.
Low skill coders do obvious stupid things.
The AI often writes code that looks good, but fails somewhere in a very complex state.
India does not produce a lot of good developers.
So many have a mindset of fake it till you make it.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 2:23 pm to Roaad
This week I did a little test with AI and coding. A pretty simple task, parse a TD thread and tally posts and votes.
The first response gave me a good jumping off point but it was not close to running properly. I iterated on it myself, using the LLM for code snippets like "here is my data structure, give me a function to sort by post count".
I'd say it made me more productive but it didn't just provide a solution out of the box, even for a simple <100 line script.
The first response gave me a good jumping off point but it was not close to running properly. I iterated on it myself, using the LLM for code snippets like "here is my data structure, give me a function to sort by post count".
I'd say it made me more productive but it didn't just provide a solution out of the box, even for a simple <100 line script.
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Top 10 by post count
Roaad -> Posts: 16 Votes: 13
BoogaBear -> Posts: 7 Votes: 29
goldennugget -> Posts: 5 Votes: 3
904 -> Posts: 5 Votes: 2
Lsupimp -> Posts: 4 Votes: -3
jdd48 -> Posts: 4 Votes: 9
AwgustaDawg -> Posts: 4 Votes: -3
GetMeOutOfHere -> Posts: 3 Votes: 2
UltimaParadox -> Posts: 2 Votes: 7
Lonnie Utah -> Posts: 2 Votes: 20
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