and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.
> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.
well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.
oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that.
I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true
(not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.
holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that
https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/...
https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c...
https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto...
and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.
> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.
well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.