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Have to admit that I disagree completely. If 'AI' makes employees in coding/finance/law more productive, on a per-person basis - then I expect it to raise wages
by mrDmrTmrJ 3y ago
Have to admit that I disagree completely. If 'AI' makes employees in coding/finance/law more productive, on a per-person basis - then I expect it to raise wages for the elite practitioners who know how to leverage these tools.
Better tools (AI) tend to reward the most skilled people because the complimentary technology improves their productivity.
I can see entry level positions in things like law, medicine, finance, HR diminishing. But the senior people in these fields are paid for the responsibilities they take on in organizations - so I think their wages will go up as they take on more on a 'per-person' basis.
- Given_47 3y agoYea good point it’s lacking that nuance between senior/entry level. Grouping them together seems intentionally alarmist because they have very different roles
- delgaudm 3y agoWhen the current senior people retire, then what happens? What happens if there are no entry/junior people to fill those spots, because they were all replaced.
- jacooper 3y agoMaybe the expectations of a junior dev just change to suite effective AI users.
- rlupi 3y agoIMHO We'll develop learning paths to speed up adoption of new tools, so new junior people will have the skills from school. Or, we won't need people doing those jobs anymore and they will do something else. There are tons of jobs in history that have been superseded, I sure don't miss some of them https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/10-of-the-most-disgusting-jobs-in-history/ https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/10-of-the-most-disgusting-jobs...
- rlupi 3y agoI want to clarify. I think there is a very clear issue in the short term and transition time. It is yet to be seen if we can adapt as a society to the accelerating pace of progress in many fronts. Society, as opposed to technology, can be the limiting factor of progress and that is ok. When I read about the struggles of actors and directors, to cite one example, I am not indifferent. I just think that there is no problem of no more junior people to learn old skills, they will learn instead new skills.