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LowestKey t1_izqjthv wrote

Reply to comment by gizamo in Tech Workers React to Ongoing Industry Layoffs With Shock by Sorin61

If AI ever gets good enough and financially viable enough, which is a big if, it’ll just change the nature of what junior devs do.

Like, people weren’t put out of jobs when compilers were created, despite how much more simple writing programs became.

Same deal with AI. Right now it’s like a natural language-powered sed, but it ain’t solving problems the way humans are. But it’s great at repeating what you said back at you or doing find and replace on text with less input than a normal word processor.

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gizamo t1_izqmsju wrote

Theo had a pretty good breakdown of Copilot in its current state: https://youtu.be/yIZqIMNvqjg, which is certainly not replacing anyone yet.

My point was about its potential beyond the, as you correctly put it, "big ifs".

Fireship's quick tid but was also a pretty reasonable take, imo: https://youtu.be/eGE-tFalwpA it's also mostly inline with your opinion.

I also agree that the jobs of Jr. devs will largely be changed, and many won't be obsoleted. However, depending on those IFs, I could also see one Jr dev being able to do the work of a few or dozen Jr devs, maybe more...or, maybe not. Lol. Who knows.

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WellEndowedDragon t1_izvh8oi wrote

It’s so clear in any of these layoffs threads to see who is actually in the tech industry and who is pulling random nonsense out their ass.

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