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> The "General Labor Substitute": He rejects the idea that his employment forecasts are "doom marketing". Instead, he asserts that AI will act as a general subs
by thewhitetulip 3mo ago
> The "General Labor Substitute": He rejects the idea that his employment forecasts are "doom marketing". Instead, he asserts that AI will act as a general substitute for human labor, noting that most software engineering could be entirely automated within 1 to 2 years
When someone says all Software engg could be automated within 1yr they don't mean 'oh use our agents and keep human in loop'
They mean 'AI superior than humans fire all humans and all SWEs will be jobless'
I am not going to reply to you going forwards as I can't speak with someone who lives in a different universe
- aurareturn 3mo agoNews flash: most of software engineering is already automated. When was the last time you wrote code? They did not claim there is no human involved.
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- simonw 3mo agoHave you watched the video where that was said, as opposed to just reading interpretations of it from people with their own assumptions? https://youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?is=UsJrcLRgdSUd38Jt https://youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?is=UsJrcLRgdSUd38Jt Here's a transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0050b4ce40439b97598d4ffdb273d6b5 https://gist.github.com/simonw/0050b4ce40439b97598d4ffdb273d...
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoI summarised the transcript using LLM just like our AI overlords intended.