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I just wish for once they would tell us exactly which jobs were killed by AI. Did Meta let go of Stephanie the Jr Frontend Dev because of GPT4? Did Atlassian give Bob the Devops guy the boot because of Mixtral? Is Zoom no longer hiring marketers because of Claude?

The best they can do is say that middle management is feeling the squeeze. Google for "middle management squeeze" for a cornucopia of articles from every year for the last two decades.

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Because nobody knows and anyone pretending to know is making it up.

I am personally skeptical that no-code solutions will replace software developers at a significant scale.

Creating a boilerplate project with no integrations or existing logic is one thing. It's a very different thing to use generative AI to maintain existing systems, integrations, and business logic without a human that knows these systems.

The landscape will change for software developers. Probably dramatically. But anyone predicting the end of software developers has as much credibility as someone who says they can talk to dead people.

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