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AI takes jobs faster than it creates new ones.

It should be banned in current form. No junior positions available - only those who lasted even have the chance to use them in commercial settings. After layoffs you will get how BAD it is :/ (if you are 35+)

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Even as a software developer affected by it, I don't think it should be banned. Productivity improvements are how we get richer in aggregate over the long term, even if those impacted (like you & me) might feel the brunt of transitional pain.

Its how some people will get rich. It won't be how you get rich.

> Even as a software developer affected by it, I don't think it should be banned. Productivity improvements are how we get richer in aggregate over the long term, even if those impacted (like you & me) might feel the brunt of transitional pain.

FYI: software developers can be pretty dumb, and believe (and spread!) the propaganda fed to them even when it's starkly against our interests. I think it has something to do with being smart and wanting to appear clever.

You won't be richer over the long term. AI is a technology for concentrating wealth further, and some cheap crap will be your consolation prize for losing.

> Productivity improvements

jury's out on this one too

I can believe short term productivty gain

but from someone's who has spent years un-fucking codebases that were handed over to outsourced teams... this all looks very familiar

"In aggregate" means few individuals on the planet, unfortunately, not the whole collectivity. This makes your statement almost almost surreal in my eyes.

Yes, outsized gains are shifting to capital, but cheaper software development means more software & more competition which benefits people across the world.

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