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What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan? (lemmy.world)
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Let's assume that in 10 years, AI has advanced absurdly, insanely fast, and is now capable of doing everything a Senior SWE can do. It can program in 15 different languages, 95% accuracy with almost no mistakes, can create entire applications in minutes, and no more engineers or SWEs are needed.... What will all the devs do? Do they just become homeless? Transition to medical field, nursing? Become tradespeople like plumbers, HVAC?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Once AI can develop code it can be used to improve itself in a feedback loop that would take short time to reach skynet.

We'd be the last of our species once it would want more resources than we'd be able to give it

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

There is a term but I forget but its something like ai-slop or ai collective hallucinations. If you feed enough ai-gen output back as ai input it becomes some insane garbage.