[paulhodge]

When it comes to AI replacing jobs the biggest wonder I have is.. why is there so much talk and attention on replacing software jobs first? Software work is fairly high skill and hard to replace. Every hour that a software dev spends doing a task, they are doing some kind of work that the industry has probably tried and failed to automate, and we're talking about an industry filled with the most clever and most qualified automation-writers there are.

There's many jobs that AI will probably replace. Software will be among the last.

[ta988]

That's because people saying that are fooled and believe that SE is just about writing code and that it is similar to making a picture like Dall-E or writing a pseudo-profound text like GPT-3 does. This is really far from reality. You have to design, redesign, correct bugs, think about the whole system from backend to frontend, envision user interaction take into account evil actors or rogue employees... And to that you add a layer of politics that forbid some options and favor others because of company culture. Good luck designing an AI that does that. It is not impossible, but it is much harder than a robot that mixes liquids or a program that make drawings that look cool.

[qualudeheart]

Software developers worry about their jobs being replaced. You see posts from people worried about this on this forum because this forum is full of software developers.

The nature of our work exposes to new technological developments first, so we’re also the first to talk about this AI. If I went on an art forum I might find posts by artists worried about Dall-E but those posts wouldn’t come about until later when the artists hear about this technology.