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The real fear should be that certain crafts will disappear: the craft of programming, the craft of technical writing, the craft of formulating and maintaining a
by pmdulaney 2y ago
The real fear should be that certain crafts will disappear: the craft of programming, the craft of technical writing, the craft of formulating and maintaining a budget for a large organization. Instead of being a programmer, you'll be someone that runs sanity checks on AI-generated code and occasionally pokes around strange-looking code when things seem not quite right.
Imagine you were a clockmaker at the time the first electric clocks (e.g., General Electric's Telechron) were introduced. Suddenly the skills you worked so hard to acquire and which gave you such satisfaction were obsolete.
White color jobs won't go away, but they will become progressively less satisfying and less lucrative.
- kasey_junk 2y agoQuartz based watches were introduced in the 70s and had macroeconomic impact on Switzerland.