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0 pointsmschuster918mo ago0 comments

> It should make skilled pros faster and more productive while helping non-pros achieve more of their creative vision on their own.

The problem is, AI is good enough to replace juniors. That means companies are already cutting positions at that level and some are just itching to ditch intermediates as well once quality improves.

But when juniors and intermediates are all gone... how are the beancounters expecting to get new seniors when the old ones go to retirement or hand in their 2 week notice because they are fed up cleaning up after crap AI?

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mrandish8mo ago

Disruption is disruptive and can suck. But it's also not new. Some companies and people will do short-sighted things in response and pay the price. Other job types and roles will simply be disintermediated and those individuals will need to learn new skills and find different kinds of jobs in the evolving landscape - same as always.

I just wrote a longer reply to a sibling comment addressing exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574895.

SchemaLoad8mo ago

What happens is those companies will end up paying a lot of money for people with no experience when they end up being the only ones available to hire.

Same thing happens in tech in cycles where companies fire all the juniors, and every time theres a boom, they hire them all back at obscene prices.

echelon8mo ago

> The problem is, AI is good enough to replace juniors. That means companies are already cutting positions at that level and some are just itching to ditch intermediates as well once quality improves.

Who needs companies? Those sounds like an unnecessary middleman to me.

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