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>The flip scenario: AI unlocks massive demand for developers across every industry, not just tech. Healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and finance all start
by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
>The flip scenario: AI unlocks massive demand for developers across every industry, not just tech. Healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and finance all start embedding software and automation.
I find this one hard to believe. Software is already massively present in all these industries and has already replaced jobs. The last step is complete automation (ie drone tractors that can load up at a hub, go to the field and spray all by themselves) but the bottleneck for this isn't "we need more code", it's real-world issues that I don't see AI help solving (political, notably)
- Eupolemos 9mo agoI think there's a good chance demand goes up in Europe. We are going to need to de-risk our software dependencies, and Germany is going to need to use computers. Germany is going to be crazy, I think.
- cheschire 9mo agoGermans were so quick to revert back to paper after COVID that it felt like one of the only reasons they came out of lockdown eventually was to get paper back. The Gewerkschaft tactics to resist AI is what I’m really interested in seeing.
- alansaber 9mo agoAgree, people were already worried about the excessive focus on software over physical technology well before LLMs significantly reduced the barrier to entry
- encyclopedism 9mo agoI tend to agree with your assessment. The increase in demand cannot possibly equal the loss from AI. Given projections of AI abilities over time AI necessarily creates downward pressure on new job creation. AI is for reducing and/or eliminating jobs (by way of increasing efficiency). AI isn't creating 'new' things, it's reducing the time needed to do what was already being done. Unlike the automobile revolution new job categories aren't being created with AI.