Nemika B

The next few weeks will be challenging. You'll see many people claim the death of programming, data science, excel, data analysis, and every other discipline you can think of. They are shitfluencers. Many of them were crypto experts a few months ago. Their best skill is to farm attention from uninformed bystanders. They have never written any code, done any data science, or built any of the skills they now claim as dead. Ignore them. They are looking to cash in on OpenAI's Code Interpreter. It's a new tool, and it's impressive. But it's just a tool. I spent the weekend playing with it, and while I plan to use it, I have to be clear: do not use Code Interpreter for anything serious if you can't supervise every bit it generates. It will improve tremendously over time, but delegating any work to it at this point is nuts. And, of course, Code Interpreter is not replacing anybody. When I started programming in the early 90s, people thought it was stupid and that I should become a doctor or a lawyer, not a weird nerd. Years later, they told me somebody overseas would take my job for $2/hour. When that didn't happen, no-code solutions were coming after me, and now it's time for AI to replace me: Copilot, then ChatGPT, and finally, Code Interpreter. The reality is very different. AI will not take away but create. For every low-skill job that AI renders obsolote, many more will open. The demand for programmers and data scientists has never been higher before and will continue raising. The attention farmers will eventually move on. There will be a day when selling "100+ ChatGPT prompts to make $1,000 per day" won't be profitable anymore. Until that day comes, ignore them and get to work.