Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Nightfox
From : scarface
Date : Sun Aug 31 2025 09:34 am

 Ni> I'm a software engineer, and lately I've been hearing people who are
 Ni> worried that AI might take people's jobs.  I'm not sure if that will
 Ni> happen, or to what extent, but I'm hoping it won't have much of a
 Ni> negative impact on the job market.

ah I meant to reply to this as well. In my experience so far I doubt it will replace any intermediate and above level programmers/developers/engineers/scientists/whatever title you pick. For juniors potentially it will make a cohort which is less likely to understand the foundations/fundamentals. We've already seen some of this in recent years with the lower end reaching toward google/stackoverflow/etc more often and just copy pasting rather than understanding. I've seen some of this flow on into higher roles in some of my roles. Makes it hard when you kinda expect a colleague on the same level as you to understand something that they seem to have no knowledge of :shrug:.

I read something recently showing that kids/adolesents are growing up in a world where things "just work" to some degree of "work", and are less curious about the _how_ it works. I can't recall what journal that was in, but I guess it shows that people are studying the effect, but that sort of research is sadly slow, and lagged behind the actuality of the present. Best we can do is talk about the effect as how _we_ see it, and what trends _we_ have seen play out etc. Otherwise ppl will just keep being sheep and ignore it all. Humans are made to do the easiest thing. Best dopamine to effort reward :)

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