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Your last paragraph is scary :)

• austin-cheney 3y ago
  It shouldn’t be. If 90% of your work force is ready for replacement by AI, given the immature state of AI, something has fundamentally failed. Perhaps the greatest failure is in perceptions of originality. A transportation engineer primarily works through communicating original ideas in the forms of drafts, papers, models, and so forth. Contrast that to a mechanic that changes oil, rotates tires, and flushes your transmission. Mechanics do work that is not original. Most software developers want to call themselves engineers and yet their first fear is originality. You will hear that expressed as reinventing a wheel. These are mechanics, not engineers. Sure, there are senior mechanics that can repair transmissions and rebuild engines, but that still does not rise to the level of engineering. Software does not formalize what defines a senior or an engineer. The result is a lot of unqualified people wearing lofty labels, Dunning-Kruger. Ultimately, what matters is what you produce but for most developers things produced not by strangers are not worthy of trust.