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> maybe programmers will once again be valued Constant media bombardment about ai replacing them and hordes of baristas rejoicing that programmers will lose jo
by gumballindie 3y ago
> maybe programmers will once again be valued
Constant media bombardment about ai replacing them and hordes of baristas rejoicing that programmers will lose jobs seem to indicate that programmers are highly unlikely to be valued, for a while. Something tells me though that all this will backfire and that indeed companies will need people to build things really fast. Even if ai did manage to write more than code at the level of an ai researcher, once everyone can do it, those that will do it faster will be again in demand. And those are, naturally, people with a programmer’s mindset.
- solarized 3y ago> And those are, naturally, people with a programmer’s mindset. Digging this line! Even in the craziest hustle, there's still space for some healthy competition. At least there are still jobs for us humans. I seriously can't wrap my head around how our civilization will cope when AI robots snatch up all the human jobs.
- prewett 3y agoI expect it's the same way civilization coped with all the housewifes that automated their job with household machines in the 1960s, and all the jobs for computers (the people) that got replaced by calculators and digital computers, and all the secretaries that got replaced by Microsoft Word.
- FroshKiller 3y agoWhat do you mean "hordes of baristas rejoicing that programmers will lose jobs"? Who are these baristas? Where can I see this rejoicing?
- gumballindie 3y agoReddit and social media are filled with low wage workers celebrating what they think is the demise of the tech industry. Not to mention ai workers who made it a mission to replace software engineers. Apparently tech workers are overpaid. Probably, the logic is that being a software engineer requires the same level of effort as writing a script to ingest a data file or serve drinks. Strange times when the masses celebrate the closure of one of their only ways out of poverty.
- FroshKiller 3y agoSo you're just making it up?