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by Animats 3295 days ago
If a job is replaceable by machines, it's not worth doing.

It's not about truck drivers. If your job consists entirely of stuff that goes in and out over a wire, expect to be replaced by computers.

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> If your job consists entirely of stuff that goes in and out over a wire, expect to be replaced by computers.

If you are a software engineer, and don't understand this - then you don't understand software engineering.

The whole point of software engineering is to automate everything - including software engineering.

What happens afterward...? Who knows...