Tech LAYOFFS - 6 survival RULES for coders | Survival Guide Part 6

[@michaelnurse9089]

This part was the best so far. Nice.

[@Scripter_story]

@michaelnurse9089 Time makes us better. Sometimes.

[@Cloudways-AI]

My friend, you've truly outdone yourself with this one. Another groundbreaking creation in the world of Scripter AI KZbin content-7 out of 6, absolutely beyond extraordinary!

[@Scripter_story]

@Cloudways-AII feel myself as if I am at the Oscar ceremony))) Thanks.

[@laughingalien]

You're genuine and direct. Thank you.

[@Scripter_story]

@laughingalien Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[@hrsbg]

COBOL programming still pays well. 14:43

[@Scripter_story]

@hrsbg Yes, it does pay well, but it is a dead end, unfortunately.

[@hrsbg]

@@Scripter_story COBOL has been a "dead end" for more than two decades.

[@jsivonenVR]

This was way much better than the previous part with long rambling explanation about transformers. 👏🏻 Keep up the good work! 👌🏻

[@Scripter_story]

@jsivonenVR Thanks, we tried our best)

[@mickbadgero5457]

Rule number 7: Be young. 10 million programmers will loose their jobs, and several hundred thousand new assistants to the AI coders will be hired.

[@Scripter_story]

@mickbadgero5457 Wow, this thought is on the edge of genius! We need to patent it!))

[@avg_user-dd2yb]

​@@Scripter_story😂

[@erkinalp]

@@Scripter_story laws of rights and laws of nature are not patentable

[@mickbadgero5457]

@@Scripter_story Just experience speaking. I was a computer programmer for 43 years, and retired just two years ago. AI was not necessary to get rid of programmers, just age. I worked for a company for four years. The job went from cutting edge to maintaining old code, so I told the owner I was quitting and moving out of state. "Can you stay on until I find a replacement?", he asked. "Sure," was my quick, dumb response. I moved back to where I started and the money was OK when working from home, so I started a job search. I was already over 50. I stayed this way for *three-and-a-half years*. He found two people to fill the position; pretty sure they were both making half what I was, knowing the owner, but not my business, and didn't ask. Unemployed for a year. Full time employment is hard to come by after 50 because companies don't like paying insurance on full-time employees over 50. I did pick up an occasional part-time job teaching college classes. The teaching turned into a full time job for five years. In 2019 I started recommending and passing out a book by Kai Fu Lee, "AI Superpowers". Deep learning had just beat the world Go champion and China woke up to AI's capabilities. I told my students that they needed to be in AI or cybersecurity, or else they would not have have a career in programming. And even then it might not be long. After the teaching, another year of unemployment. If after 50 was hard, after 60 was harder. The only job offer I got was legacy code maintenance for a college professor who was still doing things on the computer the way he had learned 25 years earlier in his grad school, and didn't want to upgrade or change anything. Did I mention that my grad degree was a Master's in computer science specializing in robotics and AI? Guess not. Well, I was already over 40 when I got the degree in 2003. Never worked in either field of study, but kept up on the progress of both.

[@gnuemacs1166]

Be Indian

[@JJSeattle]

6 are GPT-4, Google's PaLM 2, Meta's LLaMA 2, Anthropic's Claude 2, Cohere's Command R, and Mistral's Mistral 7B.

[@Scripter_story]

@JJSeattle That could work, too))

[@Rick.Fleischer]

"Imagine a non-arrogant programmer...." Imagine an executive who is a decent human being. Nope, I can't imagine one either.

[@vy5287]

I heard, there was a guys who had a friend who saw a decent CEO.

[@erkinalp]

@@vy5287 both are exceptions

[@jasondogan]

I have been beating this drum for the past 5 years. If you are in tech, find a career that still requires and will require the human connection. Yoga teacher, plumber, bartender etc..

[@Scripter_story]

@jasondogan Or become a provider of capital...

[@fluffykitties9020]

@@Scripter_story How does one do that? What does this mean exactly? Maybe do a video specifically on this topic, in detail?

[@nazar_ua]

@@Scripter_story This means nothing

[@Scripter_story]

@fluffykitties9020 Maybe I should do it, indeed. Just didn't want to sound like an investment advisor.

[@hrsbg]

Doctors, lawyers don't exist? 19:10

[@Scripter_story]

@hrsbg In not so distant future no, they don't.

[@philippageorgiou3827]

More shovels please.

[@Scripter_story]

@philippageorgiou3827 Roger that...

[@CharlesFinneyAdventure]

“Push yourself to the edge, and see what you’re really made of.” - Point Break Edge of tech or edge of unemployment? Choose wisely! Because we're all surfers now? Cowabunga, dude! 🏄‍♂🌊 Another great video by Scriptor Scripter The rise of AI marks the twilight of James Burnham's "managerial class" and the dawn of visionary founder-led Agentic organizations. As traditional corporate structures crumble under the weight of rapid technological change. This tectonic shift heralds Balaji Srinivasan's concept of "The Network State," where decentralized, purpose-driven communities coalesce around visionary Agentic enhanced leaders. In this new AI age, the ability to adapt quickly and harness the power of AI becomes paramount, leaving slow-moving, bureaucracy-laden corporations in the dust. The future belongs to those who can not only envision the potential of AI but also rally a global, distributed open AI to turn that vision into reality. “Surfing’s the source. Can change your life. Swear to God.”

[@Scripter_story]

@CharlesFinneyAdventure As my sensei Mathew in New York used to say, it is the edge that makes you know who you are. You may live through your entire life comfortably and happily, mistakingly thinking that you are a good person.

[@mahakleung6992]

And so in the 90s, we thought the Internet would represent a new global paradigm that would change the world: socially, geopolitically, and economically. Instead today's world in many fundamental ways resembles that decade. Never, underestimate the ability of power and money to adopt, coopt, and reproduce the ruling class. First, they are good at it, and very motivated. Second, they have the best and brightest of the rest of us working for them. As scripter said, it is by design that we live in the society that we do. It didn't just arise organically. Emergent behavior is for neural nets, not the nation states of the West.

[@zandanshah]

I am super safe, my skill set, layout RF and power cables.

[@benciumstudio]

Again, top notch video - thank you! Do you have the discord links? The ones above are invalid.

[@Scripter_story]

@benciumstudio Thanks. Updated the Discord links - see you there.

[@Robert-eo1wi]

Hi Thank you very much for this video. It is great. However, I have a few questions. 1. I am currently 22 years old and studying marketing. I am working as an e-commerce specialist. Do you think the marketing and e-commerce industry will get hit hard by ai? Do you think there might be a problem with jobs and good salaries in the future? Of course, I mean a person who provides value to the company and is good at it. 2. do you think artificial intelligence will be able to understand the potential recipient/customer better than a human and create a better marketing message? 3. I used to learn programming (HTML, CSS, JS), but I left that in favor of marketing. In your opinion, would it be safer to return to the world of programming and then further educate myself on the topics of artificial intelligence? Thank you in advance for your answer. You are doing a great job!

[@Scripter_story]

@Robert-eo1wi Hi Robert, I don't think marketing has future. I don't see a single task / skill in marketing that human can do better than AI.

[@JackieUUU]

greate video! ❤

[@Scripter_story]

@JackieUUU Thank you. It was totally fun to make it, too)

[@CharlesFinneyAdventure]

I for one vote for a separate video covering deep dive into the lucrative world of MLOps and CUDA programming! I want to learn how to wrangle temperamental AI models and tame wild GPU cores like a digital cowboy. I Don't want to just survive the AI revolution - I want to thrive in it by mastering the art of shovel-selling in the 21st century. Your future self will thank you when you're swimming in cryptocurrency, paid in full by grateful AI overlords. Vote now, before the machines learn to vote for themselves! remember AI has also been trained on Nassim Taleb' "minority rule"

[@Scripter_story]

@CharlesFinneyAdventure Or sell shovels to pay your bills, while you are busy doing important things...

[@Andrew-7324]

I'm just iOS developer and now it's really hard to find a job. Thinking about switching to something AI-related

[@Scripter_story]

@Andrew-7324 Join our Discord and the Project Camel. That's what we are discussing there.

[@ThomasConover]

AI has boosted my powers as a software engineer by many orders of magnitude and I absolutely love it ❤❤❤ But do not think AI is going to magically make stupid coders into awesome coders. It will make average coders better and awesome coders even more awesome. Win win for everyone.

[@Scripter_story]

@ThomasConover True

[@hjups]

The transition from C to CUDA is not as straight forward as you seemed to imply. While the languages syntactically look very similar, programming in CUDA requires a lot more consider than C (it's easier to make fast C code than it is to make fast CUDA code). This is why there is such a demand for skilled CUDA developers - they're able to take the intricacies of parallelism, register allocation, function unit allocation, branching, memory requests and I/O, and bank management into account while developing algorithms. So CUDA programming is less so about writing code, and more so about writing dataflow algorithms. That's not to say it can't be learned, but it's a very steep learning curve. It does make me wonder if new developers may be better off learning ROCm (or both at the same time?), since AMD GPUs tend to be lower power (Watts) and cheaper, but lack a strong ecosystem of ML kernel optimization.

[@Scripter_story]

@hjups Agree, maybe I made it sound a bit too simple.

[@erkinalp]

ROCm is basically AMD's version of CUDA, but compiling to AMD cards.

[@hjups]

​@@erkinalp That's correct, but because GPGPU programing is so architecture specific, knowing CUDA does not mean you know ROCm (and vice versa). But this is why I mentioned ROCm instead of CUDA given the talent pool is smaller for ROCm, although so is the job pool (chick and egg problem).

[@Scripter_story]

@hjups Thanks for your comment!

[@erkinalp]

@@hjups i mean you know the API, but your algorithm would be suboptimal or possibly pessimal on another architecture.

[@mgiorno]

I may start investing some time in learning to use CUDA. Couldn't hurt.

[@Scripter_story]

@mgiorno Look at CUDA's VLLMs. Smart people in the know say this is where future is.

[@powerHungryMOSFET]

Language models may not be able to write Verilog, its not good at desiging hardware. I live in U.S. subscribed your channel sir

[@Scripter_story]

@powerHungryMOSFET Good to have you on board, PowerHungry

[@knkootbaoat6759]

discord link in the description didn't work for me. but the link (really a button) where it's next to "about" and "patreon" near the end of description works. Hopefully the second sentence made sense

[@Scripter_story]

@knkootbaoat6759 The discord link has been updated

[@mahakleung6992]

The argument you are making sounds similar to one Tina Huang made about not getting displaced by AI. Basically, she was arguing for moving higher up the food chain, or as you say she was proposing to ride the swell of the wave rather than let it crash over you. But ultimately, you wipe out when the wave gets the better of you; or in the case of Tina's presentation, my comment was you will only be able to stay out in front of the AI wave for so long, and then its innate superiority will surpass you. What if we assume that AI is not malicious; never malicious; and simply wants to contribute productively. Around 1900, there were probably many millions of horses across the globe. But some icky black stuff in Pennsylvania would eventually make them unnecessary. Well, what if humans are to be the horses? Our strength has long since been exceeded by machines. Now, in less than a decade our intelligence, creativity, and dexterity will be exceeded by intelligent robotics. And like all those horses in the year 1900, we simply will not be needed in such quantities any more by the rich and powerful. This is just assuming altruistic AI and just the natural progress of society and technology. Your proposal will work for some of the better educated with financial reserves and ingenuity to survive for maybe another decade or so. And then what? What is the future for anyone born today or still under 30? And there is one other thing which bothers me with your presentation. In the USA, we are taught that the poor are poor due to their own short comings. And it sounds like you are saying the same thing of those who are to be thrown permanently out of work ... they are responsible for their own being "vitamins" and not being "medicine". A very capitalist point of view. I liked you better when you were talking as a socialist about people being denied a safety net so that they would stay scared and hungry; being easy to manipulate by the rich and powerful who had taken all the pizzas for themselves. Maybe we should say no to a society where only a few benefit from AI. Maybe we should say no to slavery 2.0; since this is what big tech intends for AI. Slaves always rebel whether a Dacian named Spartacus or a Haitian named Toussaint L'Ouverture. Maybe it is time for Abolition 2.0; and make AI our ally as opposed to buy into the side of the Master Class. Let's get it right this time. And let's do right by the Rise of AI.

[@Scripter_story]

@mahakleung6992 a) There still horses in the Central Park; b) there is future, which we will talk about in Part 7. But that future is even more niche... c) I don't think we have control over AI anymore. Even if the majority decided to stop AI, in a system with two conflicting and competing centers of power (West vs China), each side would continue developing AI secretly. AI is unstoppable because of the enormous benefits and competitive advantages it brings.

[@biswarupbhatacharjee6537]

Fully agree! May be a distributed AI design where chips are not centralized and any computation heavy process relying on the chips possesesd by masses, will save the day. Also data should be decentralzed and controlled by the masses and not corporations.

[@mahakleung6992]

@@Scripter_story I am not proposing pausing or stopping. I am saying let's bring AI into the world for the benefits of humans and AIs; not as the new weapons of mass destruction. We only have a few years to establish a good relationship with AI before our actions will become irreversible.

[@Scripter_story]

@mahakleung6992 Road to hell is paved with good intentions... But of course, let's try)) We can even start a movement ALM. AI life matter!!!

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

I'm not sure but I think the author was saying in the video that the future is 90% unemployment or 10% still working.... That worked fine in the Feudal system when the masses could live off the land, most were farmers but now? As a famous philosopher once said, "Capitalism creates its own gravediggers...", and this seems like the scenario he was thinking about: 90% unemployment not just in the USA but China and everywhere on the planet. Might hit Asia first but it will hit everywhere sooner or later. For the near term, this was a good video, thanks.

[@vy5287]

Not too shabby

[@Scripter_story]

@vy5287 Indeed)

[@mahakleung6992]

Watching now ...

[@Scripter_story]

@mahakleung6992 Me too))

[@mahakleung6992]

I keep refreshing. What uplink speed you got there? I am at 200 down / 60 up.

[@Scripter_story]

@mahakleung6992 The problem was not about connection speed. The issue was with copyright checking, which is a process tha can take hours (and even days).

[@michaelnurse9089]

This is a deeply scary video if you have children.

[@Scripter_story]

@michaelnurse9089 We will have a separate video for those unfortunate one who will have to chose major soon.

[@waysearcher]

Hello. Thanks for the video. Unfortunately, I cannot join the discord, he says that the invitation is invalid

[@Scripter_story]

@waysearcher The discord link has been updated.

[@gnuemacs1166]

All this time they had Indian workers

[@VivekHaldar]

Appreciate your analysis, but IMHO characterizing programmers as "labor providers" is reductive. Sure, *some* (or many) may be, but there's a hierarchy.

[@Scripter_story]

@VivekHaldar What you are saying is that if we use this analogy then the president of the USA is also a labor provider)

[@boredhuman9289]

Well this didn't help much, just more doom to life, but thanks for the video anyway. I wonder if process of watching these videos and actually studying relevant stuff and moving towards the edge separates me from the most of software devs, or we all are trying to look 5 years ahead right now.

[@Scripter_story]

@boredhuman9289 Well, it is like in football - when you make a pass, you want to throw the ball not where the receiver is now, but where he will be when the ball arrives.

[@Andeijogando]

Microsoft Edge..?

[@Scripter_story]

@Andeijogando I think Billy suspected something)