what other job is purely in text, bound by logic, specs, has version control tracking, bug reports and fixes 😭 no legal monopoly or certification, it is a perfect use case

From a more optimistic perspective, I would rather say AI enables software developers to perform well in almost any job. Because they are the ones who can adopt AI the fastest and can bring it to many other disciplines.

The difference between slaves picking cotton for their owners by hand & owners picking cotton with machines for a fraction of the time, effort and moral cost. ...except for the fact that the slaves no longer provide any value to the owners.

The optimistic aspect is that true programmers won't lose their jobs; AI is merely restructuring programming systems engineering. Experienced programming systems engineers who master AI programming are like programming architects leading a team of intelligent agents—more capable than 1000 mediocre...

Disagree. AI brings new possibilities in automation and UI that where not there before and will expand things we do with computers even more. An you don't need less people who know how computers and programs work if you do more things with computers, even if some tasks get automated, never been the ...

The people who were screaming “learn to code!” for the last decade have been awfully quiet recently.

should have been obvious in retrospect - ai is "computers", so it's gonna be good at "computers". "we're inventing a new coal mining pickaxe! i bet programmers will lose their jobs and coal miners will be the last to fall" ... uh okay..

Nobody with a blue collar job believed that hype that our jobs would be replaced by computer algorithms lol. Office workers are dumb to think they would outlast people that do physical work. Can Claude harvest vegetables or butcher cattle? Can chatgpt build homes? Yes it can effectively replace ...