The problem is that most knowledge work is “a page of code” and largely ai-automatable. It is 90% automatable before AI and is not a problem, it’s progress. W

The problem is that most knowledge work is “a page of code” and largely ai-automatable. It is 90% automatable before AI and is not a problem, it’s progress. Will you hold the same opinion when you’ll get sacked and replaced by some kind of LLM? I’m not in the job market, but I look forward to be able to offload 90% of what I do to an AI assistant that doesn’t suck or to be replaced completely cause it will mean such transformation of societies and the world that disrupts everything I hate in it fundamentally. I’m business logic oriented type, for the most part. I only care about software because it’s hard to make. AI takes some technical parts? Good (we are sort of here if you squint). AI takes system design, visual automation, accounting, communication, integration, data analysis? Good, I can just translate client/partner ideas into it and get the results. AI started to understand my clients? Good, it means my own ideas became testable without proper formulation. AI replaced my clients and me by inventing ideas itself? The latter is a complex sci-fi question. Let’s make AI that doesn’t shit itself at the first step off the beaten html boilerplate path then we’ll talk about the prospects. Anyway, I think that these “I’m just a gear in a gearbox that has zero value outside of it” jobs were doomed from the beginning if not for AI but for purely socioeconomical reasons and aren’t worth a human attention. Backlog programmers included.