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by JoshTriplett 3590 days ago
> As a thought exercise, what will/would software developers do once 90% are made redundant by A.I. or something?

An AI capable of doing 90% of the job of a software developer would likely be an AGI, and thus capable of doing 100% of the job of every human far better than the human can. At which point we stop worrying about details like "money" and "scarcity".

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> At which point we stop worrying about details like "money" and "scarcity".

And start worrying about Skynet and robots with lasers!