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What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Let's assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed.... What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Honestly people are getting distracted here. Now lets say A.I makes developers 50% more productive thats a huge boost for smaller companies with only handful of developers.

Many companies are only thinking about reducing costs for themselves but at the same time they're freeing up a lot of talent for new and old competitors.

Here's some food for thought:

  • Open source developers may use A.I to develop better software to close gap between paid alternatives. (Blender, Gimp, Krita, Linux distributions, mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed)
  • Many LLM's can already be ran freely and locally. These will only get better as technology progresses. This can make selling/profiting from A.I services a lot harder
  • A.I may be used to block ads or obfuscate (create bunch of fake data) user data that is sold to advertisers.
  • Some media sites are already using A.I to write articles. Whats the point when users may just use chatbot to get all the information without ever wngaging with the source.

These are just few that come to mind. but the unkowns with this are quite terrifying.