[taylodl]

Meh. I thought the same thing when I saw Visual C++ in 1992. It was amazing - it could produce an entire Windows application - a Windows application! - with a few mouse clicks. Add in a little bit of logic and presto! You had a complete Windows application, ready to ship. Many of us thought it was all over for developers. The gold rush was over, we were all going to be out of work in a few short years.

How well did that play out?

It didn't. At all. In fact quite the opposite happened. But I would be lying if I said development wasn't transformed. A lot of menial labor, labor many here on HN have never dealt with, was no longer done.

I see the same thing happening with AI. What you need to be thinking about is what does an "AI app" look like? What does an app accelerated with "AI" look like? How are we going to use this technology to better serve our customer's needs? How will applications be integrated with AI? What even is an application in this new world?

Paradigm shifts are exciting times! Enjoy it!

[tpoacher]

idk. i take the point, but this also screams of normalcy bias to me.

just because people didnt become obsolete then doesnt mean that will always be the case.

especially when obsolence through technology more generally isnt even a rare thing