[codebolt]

Any given system will still need people around to steer the AI and ensure the thing gets built and maintained responsibly. I'm working on a small team of in-house devs at a financial company, and not worried about my future at all. As an IC I'm providing more value than ever, and the backlog of potential projects is still basically endless- why would anyone want to fire me?

[kristiandupont]

Why would it need people to steer the AI? I can easily see a future where companies that don't rely on the physical world (like manufacturing) are completely autonomous, just machines making money for their owner.

[skydhash]

Yours is a naive sight. You learn a bit about engineering and feedback control and realize that the world is too complex for that.

[codebolt]

It's easy to imagine but there's still a vast amount of innovation and development that has to happen before something like that becomes realistic. At that point the whole system of capitalism would need to be reconsidered. Not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

[_zagj]

> why would anyone want to fire me?

Because they can hire some "prompt engineer" to "steer the AI" for $30-50k instead of $150-$250k.

[codebolt]

The difference between having a non-technical person and someone who is capable of understanding the code being generated and the systems running it is immense, and will continue to be so over the foreseeable future.

[codebolt]

Just because somebody has a bunch of power tools doesn't mean I'd ask them to build my house.

[ValentineC]

Anyone that only costs $30k-50k would either be doing this part-time, or have some limit that prevented them from earning $150k-250k.

[demosito666]

Or not living in US?