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Post #786507

2026-03-25 13:22 UTC

I keep thinking about camcorders. Imagine being a videographer for the first 10 or 20 years after camcorders went on sale. You'd go through the following thoughts: "Everyone can make movies? This is going to kill my job." "Haha, this is trash. My job is safe." "Quality is getting better but it's still trash." "It's trash but people are kind of happy with it? For recording memories and having fun it does what they need." "OK, quality is actually getting decent, you could maybe shoot a pro movie on this. Worried about my job again." "What is my job? Now that anyone can shoot videos, it's obvious that it's not just pointing a camera and making a movie. It's knowing light, angles, sound, timing. Both the camcorder, and my job, have their place." Anyway, back to coding.

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  • @pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 2026-03-25 13:37

    @simoncozens the job of a professional cameraman was always more about lighting the shot than it was about the camera itself. That’s why “camera operator” is a separate job on the credits. Good lighting never changes, and doing it well is a creative skill. Those jobs were never at risk.

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  • @mjd@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-25 14:26

    @simoncozens @pozorvlak I'm wrapping up a project where I did the back end, and Claude did the front end under supervision of a nonprogrammer, and I'm convinced even more than before that programming as a profession will continue to exist, and probably in a better form. Related: my kid was concerned that generative AI art would destroy the need for human artists, and I don't believe that either. If art survived the invention of photography it'll survive this.

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