Good point. Open-source does replace entire companies, but typically with better products that other companies can build upon, and in the end, this expands the

Good point. Open-source does replace entire companies, but typically with better products that other companies can build upon, and in the end, this expands the demand for software. AI is expected to replace developers, and I believe that it will empower non-techies to develop highly-functional mockups, which will in turn increase the amount of (crappy) software on the market, which I believe will in turn increase the demand for people who can fix this software – if we multiply the number of apps by 1,000, even if only 1% of the apps need quality, this still means that we've increased the demand for software developers 10x. So I actually think that, within a few years, AI will increase our job security as software developers. It's going to be a rocky few years, of course, but I think we'll be better off, at least until the rest of our dystopian timeline catches up. Now, what I hate is the dishonesty of AI companies. I mean, as software developers, we strive on rigor: good documentation, compilers and JITs that speed up our code without changing its behavior, APIs and tools that work as claimed, etc. AI companies and their PR, on the other hand, peddle magic thinking and gaslighting. That's the exact opposite of rigor. And this keeps assaulting my sanity.