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blactuary ◴[] No.44609030[source]
Actually no I do not have to keep up
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paul7986 ◴[] No.44609066[source]
Indeed just get out of tech and make a new living! Tech jobs are declining and will continue then fall off a cliff with one doing the job ten use to. Followed by other white collar and blue collar (AMazons warehouse robots) jobs.

Happily canceled my GPT Plus this week; personally not gonna feed that beast any longer! As well it can not generate maps (create road trip travel maps showing distance between locations to share with friends, a creek tubing map route & etc) at all like Gemini can for free.

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astrange ◴[] No.44609270[source]
> Tech jobs are declining and will continue then fall off a cliff with one doing the job ten use to.

This would increase employment ceteris paribus. That's like saying inventing new programming languages is bad because they're too productive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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1. kybernetikos ◴[] No.44609324[source]
>> one doing the job ten use to.

> This would increase employment ceteris paribus.

This might be true, but if it is, the one "doing the job ten use[d] to" would not actually being doing the same kind of work at all, and so therefore might not be the same people or even same kind of people. Even if we do Jevons ourselves out of this situation, it might still spell employment disaster for mid level coders, while increasing employment for product managers.

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2. astrange ◴[] No.44610038[source]
Indeed that's the case, but it's sort of what software engineers signed up for anyway. I don't know if people are expecting to go their whole careers without learning a new stack / language. Maybe they are?