[saurik]

If you can automate my job--and I maintain we not only aren't there yet even but still won't be even if you make it so I never have to write another line of "syntax" ever again (as that isn't now and never was the job of a programmer)--you clearly can automate the jobs of most of the value chain above me, all the way up to the limited partners at the VC firms being paid management fees to pick portfolio companies... the issue here honestly isn't "programmers will be replaced and y'all are in denial", it is "humanity is going to have a crisis of purpose when capitalism can't figure out what to do with an entire civilization of meatbags that suddenly become cost in-effective for most any purpose" and I don't know what you expect anyone to do about that other than like, stock weapons or whatever (as there simply aren't enough jobs doing skilled physical labor to absorb enough people that betting on civilization feels like it makes sense) :/.

[Swizec]

> what to do with an entire civilization of meatbags that suddenly become cost in-effective

Services! All sorts of things are going to become cost-effective that currently aren't.

Want a personal trainer? Motivational coach? Someone to sit next to you slapping your phone out of your hands every time you open social media? Personal runner doing errands? You can afford that now!

We're going to have an ever-shrinking pool of highly critical un-automatable people with an army of support folk keeping them running at peak productivity at all times.

You already see this trend in people who think of themselves as a business. They hire everyone from personal assistants to nannies. All in the name of "Well I make $200/h and there's this chore that costs only $50/h to delegate ..."

[skydhash]

People keep forgetting that the value is not in the code itself, but in the solution that it realizes. Right now, you need developers to design and implement the code, and because they're humans, you need, people to manage them, people to manage everyone, people to manage salaries and expenses,... If you automate the job that is closest to the product, you remove the whole stack up to the founder. And history has proven that a founder is not really essential when the business is already running.