r/technepal • u/Necessary_Tax_1997 • 6h ago
Discussion I never thought I would post something like this but, Jobs are in fact about to change a lot and the market might get even more cooked for people starting in IT. Astra isn't only hype.
Tldr : read the last part only at least
Read the full thing guys I think what I am saying is worth reading,
I got to use Astra yesterday, and it Is finally an ai that can deliver end to end. I had a job that I thought my teammate would need at least a whole day to do Astra did it all using mcp and CLI tools in a few prompts. A single prompt with a goal and it can execute not only the 80% easy part that most llms used to but rest of the 20% that took a lot of time as well , provided the user has a goal in mind. ( Even thinking can be outsourced atp tho lol).
No the output doesn't look like AI slop so even the talk of human touch will be just cope. And if you wanna say ai still needs someone to steer it and debug things, I doubt cause most of us surely ain't smart as these frontier models. Only a goal and it will debug itself. (There might be some people whose human touch and knowledge valuable enough) But for the most part ai has become good enough.
Countries like Nepal , India etc that are seen as cheap labour might face the worst consequences.
I highly suggest people don't fixate on IT only. instead of seeking for jobs and stuff, using your tech skill on a different domain might be extremely powerful. If you can somehow manage , get the chatgpt 200$ sub and see for yourself what I talk about.