| > We also have AI based efficiency boosting tools and greater offshoring to contend with I think that AI is parroted around but there is little to no substance to the claims. Some activities can and will be impacted by generative AI, but if you are not a copywriter or a graphics artist then your work is not significantly impacted by the current blend of commercial AI services. Software engineering is a particularly popular target for these baseless claims, as if the critical path of each coding task is writing code. It isn't. In fact, I'm yet to see a single concrete claim on how generative AI impacts productivity beyond filling in boilerplate code and acting as a glorified template engine, and this assumes AI produces code that work which more often than not fails to do. More importantly, implementing business services to automate business processes has a more direct impact on eliminating jobs. Things like opening an online store instead a brick and mortar shop eliminates the need for a bunch of positions. Nothing AI does comes even close to have that impact. But we still have brick and mortar shops. It's also important to note that some software engineering positions didn't even existed a couple of decades ago, and they are high paying jobs. A couple of decades ago mobile development wasn't even a field, and right now it's absolutely clear that iOS developer and Android developer are entirely separate specializations. |