• DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now AI is replacing those jobs.

    That’s objectively false. We’re decades away from replacement. For now they’re only good at supplementing existing software engineers.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve already used ChatGPT to write code to automate tasks for my work, essentially eliminating a contract to someone who actually studied to do that.

      This is happening all over the world and accelerating in pace as the tools grow stronger. Not all jobs will go, but the ones that stay will be highly competitive and hard to obtain for most.

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        1 year ago

        You’re just sending out code written by ChatGPT without reviewing it and validating it first? That’s a quick way to lose your job indeed.

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          1 year ago

          You overestimate the complexity and purpose of the code I generated