Comment

Comment by dingnuts

> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear

holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that

https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/...

https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c...

https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto...

and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.

> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.

well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.

parent dingnuts 1 year ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton