Unionisation, I'd wager, will come to the tech world a lot more.
No one cared about unions when they could easily find new jobs.
Now that's not so certain with the rise of AI. (Edit: and all these redundancies, yes)
No one cared about unions when they could easily find new jobs.
Now that's not so certain with the rise of AI. (Edit: and all these redundancies, yes)
The AI boom overall will most likely add more jobs to tech with everyone wanting to invest resources in it.
They are supposed to be the smart guys who make the big bucks in return for efficiently allocating capital to productive activities.
They, apparently, couldn't think of any productive activities, and instead have spaffed it up the wall inventing "taxis, but worse", an automatic plagiarizer, and a variety of unprofitable websites whose goal is to herd and trap users before making the website shit in exchange for money so they can milk cash from entrapped users before a competitor manages to scale their moat.
It's bizarre considering the scale of problems humanity faces (not even including the serious stuff like climate change) that these people cannot find any useful work for all those talented hands to be set to.
People are right not to have confidence in a system that seems to so have obviously and clearly failed to do things that you imagine any reasonably bright person would be able to do (ie. find useful and profitable things for talented people to get on with, given an unlimited free-money faucet for a decade and a half).
It can write you a function/method/script if you give it an outline of what you need but it's awful at anything remotely complex and everything it spits out needs to be understood by somebody so it can be checked.
It can save a developer time but it only replaces people in that one person can be more productive which is absolutely nothing new.
The reason for that is because it's not AI, it's ML. It doesn't understand anything.
Those languages came about during the boom of websites and apps, however.
And more code was being written, rewritten and maintained by coders--now, instead, it's looking like it'll be generated, tested, analysed and regenerated.
If one developer can all of a sudden do the work of four, I think leadership is just going expect higher output from the same number of people.
If AI gets to the point where an end user can easily describe the app or website they want, however, then it won't just be the programmers who are in trouble.