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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    22 hours ago

    I’ll take what money I have stashed away and buy a nice secluded parcel of property with dummy low taxes away from people.

    I’ll grow my own food, hunt, forage, etc.

    I’ll do odd jobs to fill in the gaps when needed. anything from tech consulting to roof repairs.

    I’ll refuse to use any technology unless a job requires it.

    and I’ll wait for the inevitable collapse of technological society because a vulnerability was baked into the AI every company is using and nobody knows how to fix it.

    I refuse to be a part of a system that denies me a seat at the table.

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      4 hours ago

      Combine harvesters are used to till, plow , sow seed , spray, water, reap and manage farms and most livestock have dedicated automated farming tools like cow milkers, feeders, shearers, etc. How long before no humans needed to hunt or forage or farm? When food is even cheaper to produce( of course the ai overlords and ai royalty ) but will hunger games everyone to get the artificially shortage and scarcity farm for vast amounts of resources to select groups.