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Just yesterday I was asked if I was worried about losing my job because of AI and I smugly replied that us programmers will be needed even more, as interpreters. This is an excellent article as explanation I'll be sharing!

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Another perspective may be - similar to how people were saying the post will go bust when internet came in with email etc. - but it turned out to be the opposite.

Maybe intelligence will simply become commoditized and programming/creating things with it will require even more programmers.

If you're still seeing people flipping burgers, you should be safe for at least a decade.

Bang on target! It's gonna take more than a decade if you count from flipping burgers era because there a downstream ongoing. Upstream will take more.

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