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What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to c/technology@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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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They'll get jobs as contractors fixing shitty AI code

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm actually anxious this is where it's going.

If we end up there, I'm going to charge so much money, and I'm going to have all kinds of pain-in-the-ass clauses in my contract.

If I have to clean up the stupid again, everyone else is going to be doing doing some stupid shit that I find funny, in exchange for my help cleaning up their mess.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 3 hours ago

Yep, you better charge these assholes up the wazoo, they more than earned it! Write that shit up so you're taken care of. Make them understand that their stupidity is costly and their greed is short-sighted.