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Until we crack the nut of “creative” AI, I have zero fear of being replaced.

• 01100011 6y ago
  You might not have to worry about it, but a good portion of programmers don't really do anything creative. It's like how in the 'old days'(2000ish), there were a lot more embedded operating systems. I spent a lot of time just rewriting things that existed on other platforms, but didn't exist on the one the customer chose. Now people generally use Linux, or some Posix compliant OS that makes porting easier. A lot of those dumb, yet high paying jobs went away. When cheap ARM systems emerged that could run Android, you no longer even needed to know C/C++ to make an embedded system. Now, just like the change that happened back then, this isn't going to eliminate all of us, but it may eliminate certain classes of work. Over 20+ years I've noticed the problems we're trying to solve generally getting more difficult, and requiring more of a CS/algorithmic background. The low level shit work is slowly going away. It's fine if you can keep up with the times. Software and systems design is still difficult. This isn't going to change that.