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Comment by frabcus

5 months ago

I think if models improve (but we don't get a full singularity) then jobs will increase.

e.g. if software is 5x less cost to make, demand will go up more than 5x as supply is highly limited now. Lots of companies want better software but it costs too much.

That will create more jobs.

They'll be more product management and human interaction and edge case testing and less typing. Although I think there'll be a bunch of very technical jobs to debug things when the models fail.

So my advice is learn skills that help make software useful to people and businesses - from user research to product management. As well as engineering.

the thing is that cost won't go down by 5x but much more.

once the ai gets smart enough that it only requires an intern to make the prompt and solve the few mistakes, development cost will be worth nothing.

there is only so much demand for software development.