@csb I’m of the belief that programming jobs won’t go extinct, but it will keep being increasingly difficult to get hired. Instead of a senior engineer spending most of their time training and reviewing juniors, one senior can orchestrate and review agents and get the same level of output.

Understanding of architecture and good coding principles will still be essential to building scalable, enterprise level products, but the “grunt work” of physically writing code syntax is going away.

@csb it’s sad to think programming opportunities could be drying up, when just 10 years ago it was the most in demand job in the world, but oh well. Automation driven disruptions are coming for almost everyone. Self-driving cabs and deliveries will put many out of work. Amazon warehouses are increasingly automated. Even creative industries that AI won’t replace, like podcaster or comedian, will be affected if their audience can’t afford to support them. Interesting decade ahead.

@mitch

Exactly, and read also https://poa.st/@CSB/posts/B3R03fwhY3Gj10Vm4W , that’s underlying that AI creates also new things previously impossible to create by humans alone

@csb I agree with some of your points in your post, but I think you’re overlooking the main source of burnout…people are feeling that the AI will replace them in the workforce, and they’ll lose income. They’re increasing output, working harder, and taking less breaks, because it feels like the world and its demands are accelerating, and they don’t want to fall behind. It’s almost 100% an economic anxiety issue that is the driver of the burnout, and that’s not a problem that better AI may solve.

@mitch I agree that people are stressed by being replaced by AI what causes or contributes to burnout

I just pointed out that AI is not all bad , that it has also positive effects

Unfortunately without Universal Basic Income this AI revolution might destroy humanity