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lovetheoceanfl t1_j6f6hjb wrote

Can’t wait to hear all the programmers say they aren’t worried. That’s been the basic gist of this sub for awhile.

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Coolguy123456789012 t1_j6fiahx wrote

Yeah, they all claim that their job is much more complex than can be automated and then their explanation fails to describe anything that can't be automated. My guess is we see programming jobs halved at least. Maybe in the long term some of those jobs shift towards working with LLMs or AI but in the short term a lot of people are going to be out of work.

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SurroundSwimming3494 t1_j6fs04j wrote

I mean, they can of course be biased, but at the end of the day they know the most about what their jobs entail and how easy/hard it is to automate certain programming tasks, not to mention that some are also at least somewhat familiar with AI, which makes their answers more credible.

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raylolSW t1_j6fk6ty wrote

I mean I have 0 worries, in fact I’m excited for the future as tech just keeps growing we still have many things left to achieve using coding. Smart cities, VR, AI, etc

No one is really that worried about short term automation outside this sub which sometimes feels like the flat earth society of AI.

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lovetheoceanfl t1_j6fozir wrote

No one is worried about short term automation except the people outside this sub? You do realize what you just implied right?

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raylolSW t1_j6fpdsc wrote

Ya, billions of workers are just going on with their lives not knowing what AI even is.

Just go outside and you’ll see workers having dinners, owning houses, driving their cars and living their lives.

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lovetheoceanfl t1_j6fq47p wrote

I misread what you wrote in your previous comment.

That said, I think a majority people are well aware of AI and do have worries in the back of their minds. Give it a year for full blown panic.

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MassiveIndependence8 t1_j6om6v8 wrote

That’s not a good thing. If billions of workers won’t realize that they’re replaceable then it will hit them like a truck.

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