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Developer adopts AI coding tool amid job redundancy fears

A software developer in their 60s is reluctantly adopting GitHub Copilot due to impending redundancies at their company, which are partly attributed to AI. Facing the prospect of enforced retirement if laid off, the developer is concerned about their financial future and the need to continue working. They plan to carefully monitor GitHub Copilot's output to avoid errors. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential job displacement and the personal impact of AI adoption on individual careers.

RANK_REASON This is a personal account of an individual's experience with AI tools in the context of their employment, rather than a broader industry announcement or development.

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    @ fluids_guru @ thestrangelet There are good reasons for all those things to exist. They benefit individual developers or whole teams or they're necessary to de

    @ fluids_guru @ thestrangelet There are good reasons for all those things to exist. They benefit individual developers or whole teams or they're necessary to deliver products that customers want. But this… I'm now reluctantly starting to use it because, in my 60s, I'm too old to …