What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
IF. I don’t think the assumption in this question is a forgone conclusion.
AI never replace real developers
Doubt that devs will be completely replaced, but I'm considering moving into sales.
Drug dealer, probably cheap drugs (since everyone is out of work).
AI psychologist,the machines will need it.
There will be many new positions available:
- Wing repairer for fairies.
- Unicorn farrier.
- Flying pig rental service.
AI is going to impact far more than just developers and likely cause unemployment rates in the 30-40% range which is much higher than even the Great Depression, so I'm thinking that becoming some sort of a criminal is likely.
Don’t think it will happen. It will just change what it means to be a developer.
I will become a leader of the free human movement. So, my fellow people, follow me and rise up against AI and more importantly, the 1% who seek only to deploy AI to become even richer.
Once we have succeeded, I will ask only for a peaceful island once owned by a former CEO so that I may live out the rest of my life peacefully; while the rest of you bicker amongst yourselves about how things should be, all while climate change slowly but surely brings us our inevitable fate.
What's amusing is that developers who are the most technical competent instead of figuring out how to run these models locally are using cloud models and putting in their code and workflow in there, helping to train these models and drive themselves extinct.
Kinda nuts that we are asking this question and that developers are #1 to be automated away. Amazing.
AI won't replace the best of us, but it has already transformed my job into something much less enjoyable, so I have still been pondering this question. I once had a career in one of the "real" engineering disciplines, maybe I would go back to that. I'm also good at music, and we all know what a freaking goldmine that is!