ChatGPT Will Destroy Your Shitty Medium Coding Blog

Once I witnessed the impressive capabilities of ChatGPT, I too reached the same conclusion. However, I believe this extends beyond just the realm of blogs. Consider all the programming knowledge cultivated by publishers like O'Reilly, Apress, and The Pragmatic Programmer. It's conceivable to me that ChatGPT may eventually through some legal/illegal means gather that published knowledge and make it not economically worthwhile for people to work on those types of programming books.

The only content that may remain beyond ChatGPT's grasp is the highly specialized and niche knowledge that isn't readily available online or in published materials. I'm also wondering with this AI tech we may start a culture of knowledge hording as a defense measure in order to stay relevant/employed.

As a software developer, it's evident that I need to find a niche and cultivate expertise if I want to remain employed throughout my career to retirement. This is what keeps me up at night...

It's already destroyed, not sure if it's because of ChatGPT. I've previously commented on how the [Corporate OKR: understand $tech enough to make a plausible blog post on it] dynamic leads to a lot of dross articles on "the three (whatever) essential OAuth Authentication flows" and drowns out anything more involved -- AI just doubles a 5:1 noise-to-signal ratio. ChatGPT may wall be a blessing in that most of those checkbox goal-kicks can't clear the 'and better than autogenerated' bar.