It affects them dramatically, often tragically! Think about how optimistic the people who started learning programming were - 15 years ago, 5 years ago, and right now people are still studying under curricula that are five years old. And that's the core problem: "You got your education - now it's time to retrain yourself." This applies to a huge number of professions.
The education system is a truly remarkable sphere right now, because the crisis touches everyone simultaneously: teachers, students, bureaucrats in ministries, parents and employers. Artificial intelligence has crashed into this sphere in a deeply dramatic way - and from six directions at once. It seems to me that education and re-education will now be one of the main bifurcation points.
These problems in education are sharply redirecting the development trajectory of AI at the leading companies, and they will become a massive labor market for programmers (new software products are needed). At the same time, these problems are putting enormous pressure on the entire programming industry.
Every idea and piece of research about what children should be taught in schools and universities directly speaks to how and what you yourself will need to retrain for tomorrow - or already needed to yesterday.
And often you don't understand, within your own profession, how much of your knowledge will need to be relearned - and how much of who you are will need to change. So how are you feeling right now, and what do you sense is coming?
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