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0 pointsthrowaway712713y ago0 comments

This is just as good as a prediction as the alternative: ChatGPT will be the new gold age of programming, all you need in any company is only programmers, all kinds of programmers, no other job will be able to do anything of value.

So everyone who knows how to do a for loop is safe.

Or the extreme, we finally have to move to post-money society, because automation is no longer creating any jobs.

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rvz3y ago

Except that my statement isn't extreme or supports either extreme. I said 'less' programmers, not 'none' or only programmers / all people being programmers.

I still stand by that no-one (including Big Tech companies) is safe, especially after the 2022 tech layoffs which happened to many and tools like ChatGPT will eventually reduce the need to hire lots of programmers like before.

It is not going to be the same as the hiring euphoria that happened last year.

throwaway71271OP3y ago

I understand you disagree, but I am pointing out that you can just as well predict extremely positive outcomes instead of your pessimistic ones, which you probably convince yourself are 'realistic', but there is no such thing as 'realistic' predictions, because we live in true emergent chaos.

So, you have a choice how to look at the world.

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