Comment by nunez

Will we see growing unemployment in software development? Maybe in the short term, but the appetite for software is not finite just as the appetite for any other kind of economic tool is not finite.

What percentage of software just ceases development when it's "good enough?" Probably a tiny percentage of all software, and which is mostly internal tooling.

It's going to push software development into the front of business development precisely because it will be cheaper to develop. The companies that will benefit from AI at least early on will all be software-driven companies since the results are undeniable. If software developers lose out when all of their companies become more efficient and new companies are built because it becomes easier to build software with small teams, I will be very surprised.

This is a more honest comment than the many around it making overly intellectualized arguments.

But I would sooner compare this engineer class to something of a small bourgeoisie swallowed by a yet larger one, especially in the United States.

The personification of the quote “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should”

I feel the existential problem for a world that follows the religion of science and technology to its extreme, is that most people in STEM have no foundation in humanities, so ethical and philosophical concerns never pass through their mind.

We have signed a pact with the devil to help us through boring tasks, and no one thought to ask what we would give in exchange.

I find it fascinating how the “true believers” of AI and AGI, have essentially been manipulated by capitalists to undermine the value of their own labor.

Based comment

Money. It's always money. It was always money.

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