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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Once AI can develop code it can be used to improve itself in a feedback loop that would take short time to reach skynet.

We'd be the last of our species once it would want more resources than we'd be able to give it

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Plan? The CEOs plan to buy another yacht. These people are only interested in short term profits, not the long term well-being of their employees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Same thing the rest of us replaced by AI are gonna do: live on the dole or starve

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Who tells the AI what to create? And how well does the AI understand the exact thing the person is attempting to do?

It would be no different than prompt engineers now knowing exactly what the say/type in order to get the image output they want.

That prompt work would be a kind of programming code in upon itself.

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