damn, that would be a good band name. Anarchy Cops. In fact, I'm writing that down.

I 100% agree, it is terrifying. What I am afraid of is having an 'anti-terrorist AI' or the like, which can spy on who it wants when it wants but is justified by the reasoning that it is a computer program. I can see the argument being made that since it isn't a person, your privacy isn't actually being invaded, it would be the same as say a program that checks your security camera for motion.

Something like that could easily be turned malicious, depending on how the people in charge of it define 'terrorism'. Environmental protesters? Well, it is negatively affecting business and therefore the economy and country, so it's terrorism.

One thing I did notice on ChatGPT when it generated long text responses is that it seemed to have a lot of filler sentences. It felt like one of those websites you visit when you are trying to find an answer to something, then it has ads every paragraph and each paragraph says the same thing but not really, and it's all just meant to keep you scrolling past ads looking for your answer.

OH yeah, I can see the writing on the wall for programmers. I liken it to how automation killed factory jobs. There are still factory jobs, but not as many, and their jobs are relegated to either tending machines (machine operators) or doing things that a machine can't do as easily.

Hey! I have a question you might be able to answer. I have been using ChatGPT, and it is honestly the first 'AI' that I have been blown away by.

I am not a programmer; I can program python and a little bit of C++ but it's mainly for microcontrollers like arduino/pico. I know the basics though. ChatGPT has blown me away because now instead of spending hours programming something relatively simple, I can just tell it hey, I have this hardware connected on these pins, make it do this. And it will do it.

Is somebody working on a version of ChatGPT that is more orientated for programming? That is the only thing I have used it for recently.

It is insane I can tell it to 'build me a python program using tkinter that has 5 buttons, each button does x' and have it spit out a working program. Then be able to go back and be like ok, change the background to x, make the buttons aligned vertically, make it full screen, make it touch friendly, etc etc.

It would be such a productivity booster if I had a version that I could download on my computer, and would simultaneously run/compile(in the case of C/C++) a program so that I didn't have to copy and paste code.

If somebody isn't working on this yet, that would be a billion dollar idea because I would 100% pay a few hundred dollars a month for access to something like that, because of the amount of time it would save me.

Another path would be to work for a company that offers tuition reimbursement and attend school while working there. That's what I did, I only paid for the fees and books (most of which are findable online) and everything else was paid by my job. My specific company doesn't have anything regarding repayment if I leave, but a lot of companies stipulate you must work there for 1 or 2 years after graduation, which usually isn't a big deal as long as the company isn't horrible. Find a cheap community college to get as many credits as possible then transfer them to a prestigious school, or what I am doing is getting a B.S. at a cheap school then taking it to a university to get my graduate degree.

I feel for my friend who is almost 100k in debt for a 'fast track' for profit college where he got his degree faster than me but is in so much debt right now and won't repay it for many years.