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by headcanon 88 days ago
Thats exactly what we as software engineers do. We are constantly automating ourselves out of a job. The trick is that we never actually accomplish that, there will always be things for humans to do.

We're discovering so much latent demand for software, Jevon's paradox is in full effect and we're working more than ever with AI (at least I am).
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turlockmike 88 days ago
Software engineering is being automated. But building intelligent automation is just starting. AI engineer will be the only job left in the future as long as there are things to automate. It's really all the other jobs that will be automated first before AI engineer.
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headcanon 88 days ago
Most knowledge worker use computers today to do their work, but we don't necessarily call them computer or software engineers. I think it will be something like that, but the economy will need to adapt and grow in order to accommodate it.
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IncreasePosts 88 days ago
OP compared AI to interns, and how they need to guide it and instuct it on simple things, like using unit tests. Well, what about when AI is actually more like an ultra talented programmer. What exactly would OP bring to the table apart from being able to ask it to solve a certain problem?

Their comment about people who don't operate like them being out of a job might be true if AI doesn't progress past the current stage but I really don't see progress slowing down, at least in coding models, for quite some time.

So, whatever relevance OPs specific methods have right now will quickly be integrated into the models themselves.

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