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The so called AI job loses are not due to AI. I don't think there is anyone out there to argue otherwise.

In a year but probably sooner, when software systems start collapsing, and they will, hiring in tech sector will skyrocket. In fact, I don't believe the world have enough developers to backfill for the AI deficiencies.

To me the math is obvious. Assuming humans touch a 1% of all software systems created, something we know it is simply never going to be true given the current state and upcoming regulations, the 47 million developers world-wide (and that includes all kinds of developers) are simply not enough.

However, although jobs will be back and it will be better payed, programming will "suck" even more and I don't think it will be for everyone. If you are not the kind of person that enjoys reversing a piece of tangled mess it might not be for you.

If AI is everything and AI is software then everything is software and everyone would like to have a piece of that software.



>"I don't think there is anyone out there to argue otherwise."

Meanwhile, millions are arguing otherwise.


I like the idea of that, but it hinges on the notion that AI won't be capable of that. From what I've seen I don't know that it won't.




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