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by flappyeagle 917 days ago
> He started using the AI model as a front-end engineer. He would talk to the AI the way he would talk to the resigned front-end engineer, giving tasks, iterating on the React UI, and making final changes in the source code before pushing it to production. After a week-long pilot, he asked headhunters to use the opened position to find a UI/UX designer for the team instead. He no longer needed a front-end engineer.

Wait lemme get this straight — AI didn’t eliminate a job; it changed a job to something higher in the abstraction chain. Isn’t this actually the very best case outcome?

Low level language dev -> high level language dev -> designer