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Let's assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed.... What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?

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[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

The same thing that devs displaced by all the CMSs are doing - their jobs, just with another tool in their toolkit.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

They'll get jobs as contractors fixing shitty AI code

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago

Then I'll train my own model to make others lose their jobs, too. I bet an AI will then be able to do all calculations a civil engineer can do. Or manage any project.

[-] LaMouette@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago

Not it can't replace a civil engineer. Gen AI is very bad at math and reasoning. There is a study from Apple about this topic.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Then it won't be able to replace me either

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl -1 points 6 months ago

Well before that level of complexity is achieved, the jobs of CEOs and Managers will be gone. Question is, will the Ai CEO really want to risk the safety of a review, knowing that it IS the company. Pump and Dump won't do it any more. Then CEOs need to actually work for their money. (Or well... get replaced by an Ai)

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 months ago

I was going to learn how to give a really good handjob but the AI robots will probably take over that too.

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