Haha I just gave a reply that sounds like a copy of yours but I swear I didn't read it beforehand.

Crazy that we came to the same conclusion but I'm sure many many people are.

I got SPECIFIC strategies to deal with a particular student with ADHD from ChatGPT and they were golden.

Like I said, this will start by helping current therapists and social workers and just slowly making it so that only the best 10% still have jobs. Until those are replaced as well.

No? With perfect avatars and the ability to design a social worker or therapist personalized to each person? With perfect memory?

I predict social work to go before high-end therapy for rich folk who might choose to pay extra for awhile for that person-to-person connection. But if you try talking with Character.AI (which is far less lucid that ChatGPT) even that is already really quite impressive as a therapy tool.

You don't need some special "singularity" event to happen.

Your job definitely isn't safe. The updates are happening lightning fast and there are already tons of examples of people posting perfectly useable code.

More and more slowly, software engineers will only need to have conversations in English with AI to program. So less and less jobs available. It won't happen all at once but there will very quickly be WAY less need to hire programmers.

Already for basic tasks it makes no sense to hire a programmer. And this is an AI that isn't even connected to the internet.