[lylejantzi3rd]

It's all about competition. Musicians dislike AI music because they're being outcompeted by AI. Same with artists. And, ironically, same with programmers.

AI programming isn't going to improve the state of the craft. Developers hate AI coding tools for the same reason they hated Dreamweaver back in the 00s: the generated code was crap. You'd spend more time "fixing" the generated code than you'd spend writing it from scratch.

What it is going to do is finally kill this obsession the tech industry has with moving fast and breaking things. We can't compete with AI on speed and breaking things. It's just not humanly possible. It's going to force the entire industry to find other metrics to compete on. I hope that's going to be quality (performance, uptime, and reliability), but, then again, I'm an optimist in this regard.

It's the same with music and art, too. AI isn't going to replace musicians and artists, but it is going to make them compete on different metrics than they're used to.

[ibash]

That’s not quite right.

The tools are going to get better, and it’s going to lift everyone while doing so. But it will vary across task.

The bottom tier of engineers will have improvements to their code.

The top engineers will move faster. Top engineers will still be great at what they do.

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The same thing is happening in music. Everyone gets lifted but on different dimensions.

[lylejantzi3rd]

Unless there's a fundamental change in how the technology works, it'll never get to the point you're talking about. We're still waiting on our self-driving cars, remember.

Also, when it comes to music, who are the people in the rock and roll hall of fame? Those who can play the guitar real good? Or those who crafted songs that people love? AI will never be able to do the latter. But, AI can play power chords better than any session guitarist. That session guitarist is going to have to learn how to compete in another way than his guitar playing skill.