@alvaromontoro@front-end.social
Post #2541197
2025-05-12 12:56 UTC
Replies (35)
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@alvaromontoro@front-end.social 2025-05-12 13:03
My job will eventually disappear, as many other jobs have in the past and will in the future. Or it will be transformed into something different. It didn't exist as it is right now when I was born, and it may not exist when I retire (hopefully after). Maybe the person I talked when I was 18 was a visionary and correct (just off by a few decades). I'm glad I didn't listen.
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@sarajw@front-end.social 2025-05-12 13:01
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvqbWRPgobo
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@musevg@chaos.social 2025-06-09 20:29
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social So… now… please… stop raising the tension and give us the punchline already! What IS your job? Are you a cook or an undertaker or a dentist or a professor or...?
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-06-09 22:00
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social Why would a programmer's job not survive quantum computing? Quantum computers are computers. Somebody still has to write code for them to execute. Also, I haven't heard about very many exciting applications of quantum computers. Mostly just breaking encryption. I'm sure that's very exciting for cybercriminals, but nobody's going to want a quantum computer in their house just for that.
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange 2025-06-09 22:44
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social @bhawthorne@infosec.exchange I can't think of *anybody’s* job offhand that would be eliminated by the rise of quantum computing. (Unless your job is exclusively artisanal large integer factoring)
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@TENET_CDN@mastodon.social 2025-06-10 03:44
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social It’s no big deal, by the time Trump is done, there will be nothing but scorched earth. So party hardy while you can.
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@sun@shitposter.world 2025-06-10 03:58
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social you believed trade tags and Newsweek
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@tommythorn@chaos.social 2025-06-10 05:27
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social Ha, I'm much older and I remember 1980s "3rd gen" tools that was glorified program generators that was going to make us all unemployed. I work on AI and with AI and I'm not worried about my employment at all, but I'm worried about the very real brain rot I see around me.
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@expertenkommision_cyberunfall@mastodon.social 2025-06-10 06:00
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social 2025 they tell you that you wont survive with a single job.
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2025-06-10 06:02
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social what's your job?
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@marinaaisa@hachyderm.io 2025-06-10 06:22
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social I used to work for IBM Quantum, 5 years ago, and I don’t think my job will die because of it 🤪
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@coldclimate@hachyderm.io 2025-06-10 06:29
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social in 2025 I am 44 years old, and I'm fucking exhausted
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@cojajo@mastodon.social 2025-06-10 07:17
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social Proved once again, those who were declared dead live longer.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2025-06-10 07:37
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social I'm almost seventy. When I was at school, fifty five plus years ago, we were told by a careers teacher not to go into software development, because within five years (i.e. by 1975), computers would be smart enough to program themselves. Uhhhmmm... no. I do think that, if technological civilisation does not collapse first, we will ultimately create artificial general intelligence; but I won't see it in my lifetime and I don't think you will in yours.
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@john_philip_bell@defcon.social 2025-06-10 07:41
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social it is 2025... I hear quantum computing might be close... 😜
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2025-06-10 07:49
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social You job, in fact did not survive. Are you still doing the same thing you were 25 years ago, with the same workflows ? 😁
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@64kb@icosahedron.website 2025-06-10 07:49
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social can't wait for the next set of visual IDEs, this time I hope they work better with all our text based tools.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2025-06-10 07:51
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social The job does change though. I no longer get to use an oscilloscope and a logic analyser to debug software, for example.
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@nitrofurano@ciberlandia.pt 2025-06-10 07:52
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social they were not that wrong
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@farahbuzz@eldritch.cafe 2025-06-10 08:01
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social insert astronauts-it-always-has-been-about meme: union busting
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@Jvmguy@mindly.social 2025-06-10 08:37
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social I had this discussion with a co-worker in 1974.
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@EnigmaVoice@mastodon.ml 2025-06-10 08:44
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social should we wait for the next big thing at visual IDEs?
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@dat@social.g33ky.de 2025-06-10 09:05
It's 1994, I'm 10 years old. They say I'll have to choose a job some time in the future and I should choose carefully, because some jobs will be gone sooner than later. Prime example is coal miners who everyone agrees will are clearly on their way out of germany. It's 2002. I'm 18 years old and decided on doing this IT stuff. There was a bubble that just burst, but everyone is clear about this still being a job of the future… not like those coal miners that should have all moved into renaturation projects a while ago? It's 2014. I'm 30 years old. All that web stuff is dead and clearly mobile is the next big thing. I don't even know if there's still coal mines somewhere? It's 2024. I'm 40 years old. "Every thinking-job will be gone soon due to AI! Driving Taxi, Call-Centers or flying airplanes will be gone too! You might have luck if you're doing something manual with people?". I'm still doing exactly the same IT bullshit. But with ever increasing rates of bullshit and boilerplate. We get done less and less every year. …meanwhile there's public outcry about the recent (and expected/anual) extension of some large coal mines.
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@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science 2025-06-10 09:44
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social It is 1948, and my late father is 10 years old. #Nazi emigrant to #Argentina , Ronald Richter convinced #fascist #dictator Juan Péron that #Fusion energy was possible from hand-held devices. The Huemul Project is funded, and 3 years later dubious claims of success spurred the #UnitedStates government to start the gravy train at the #Princeton Plasma #Physics Laboratory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huemul_Project
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@mihamarkic@mastodon.social 2025-06-10 11:48
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social Fun twist - last threat was written by AI
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@adorfer@chaos.social 2025-06-10 12:52
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social to continue: "It is 2038. I'm 56 years old. They say my job won't survive Y2K38."
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@AnthonyCFox@infosec.exchange 2025-06-11 00:09
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social I'm not saying you will lose your job to AI you probably won't, but it is a very powerful tool when it is understood and used as such - the hype is not based on that, it revolves around fantasy and that is where the real danger lies - misplaced trust in machines that appear to think, but actually just generate patterns and nothing else.
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@Reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info 2025-06-11 12:40
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social I think I’m seeing a pattern emerge here, maybe even a cycle but I’ll need more data to be sure about that
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@mnd999@mastodon.social 2025-06-11 18:05
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social same old shit, different year
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@haro@social.der-schreiber.net 2025-06-11 21:01
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social It is 1994, I'm 15. The school career counselor advises me, that anything involving computer programming is the unemployment market of the future.
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@cow99@mas.to 2025-06-11 21:15
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social yet I’m still working in a terminal like it’s 1995. Except with more colors and columns.
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@danedeasy@mastodon.world 2025-06-12 13:30
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social just wanna keep you stressed and desperate
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@michelemauro@mastodon.online 2025-06-16 16:18
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social It is the 1990-ies. I'm 20-ish years old. Thay say my job wo'nt survive 4GLs. Many times.
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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2025-06-30 21:19
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social Did you adapt in any way?
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@crazyjaneway@open-ground.org 2025-07-01 00:55
@alvaromontoro@front-end.social what they are crowing from the rooftops is they wish they could replace us. Let’s turn the tables…