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AI is unlikely to take away jobs from software engineers. There’s no natural upper bound on the amount of software people can consume - unlike cars, food or hou
by spacebanana7 2y ago
AI is unlikely to take away jobs from software engineers. There’s no natural upper bound on the amount of software people can consume - unlike cars, food or houses.
Software engineers ultimately are people with “will to build”. Just as hedge fund people have a “will to trade”. The code or tooling is just a means to an end.
- spencerflem 2y agoHuh, I have the opposite feeling- that people already have most of the software they want a this point.
- spacebanana7 2y agoThink about your browsing history over the last year. You’ve probably consumed an obscene amount of React components, maybe millions. Your car has way more code than a decade ago and so does your TV. These things might make you miserable but it’s still “demand” in the economic sense of the term. It keeps developers employed.
- hnhn34 2y ago>Think about your browsing history over the last year. You’ve probably consumed an obscene amount of React components, maybe millions. Yeah, most of which are rehashes of the same thing, and most of them on the same ~10 websites.
- eacapeisfutuile 2y ago640k should be enough for anybody