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Comment by figers

10 days ago

You'd think we would see a large spike in unemployment if AI was reducing the number of employees needed for jobs the way these CEO talk about AI replacing people...

In a free market, there are many competitors, new startups, companies and teams may be created, but the general trend is that fewer people are needed to produce a product as productivity increases. A few years ago, a programmer would look for a front-end programmer and vice versa, but now it is not an obvious issue because they can almost work full stack for their small projects.

  • Yes I was referring to the scale of replacement these CEOs are talking about because of AI.

    What you describe makes sense and has always been the case with new technology overall