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Look at the countries listed in the article it's not just China and I don't agree with your assessment that they are optimistic because they've never seen a recession or high unemployment. Many of those countries have high unemployment rates already.

I suspect the AI optimism has to do more with cultural differences than with job market perception impact differences. When you work extensively with APAC companies you will quickly understand the cultural differences and how you have to deal with them. I believe this is why they are so open to AI.

I find AI to be an incredibly powerful tool in the correct hands but without keeping it close eye on it and guarding what it does it often does things very stupidly. It's not that it doesn't have the knowledge to do things right It's that it is not supplied with the correct context or it takes things to literally. US engineers and programmers are expected to be more well-rounded They are expected to push back on bad ideas they are expected to individually evaluate and assess if it's the right thing and raise issues when they see them.

Culturally in the APAC region this is not the norm. There are a few people that will do that but that is the minority. Most people will simply take it and they will shovel it through an attempt to deliver it even if they know that it's wrong even if they know that there's problems they will literally comply with the spec and deliver you a steaming turd if you didn't describe it perfectly and put in all of the use cases and all of the tests. Because culturally they view things differently that it is not their role to raise up these red flags and these problems. So a lot of them, are quite intelligent, but they act like AI. So they've now gotten a tool that basically does what they do It empowers them to do more of the same.

For me AI does allow me to do more but it feels more like AI is training me then me having an AI that understands what should be done. It doesn't feel very intelligent to me but it does feel very knowledgeable about a lot of subjects.