I hope that these media companies realize sooner than later, that if their content is AI generated, there’s no reason to go there. We’ll just skip the middlemen and go straight to OpenAI or whatever. No need to go to their site.
The second wave will involve 3d modelers, animators, post-processing jobs in cinema.
I'm already seeing lot of developer jobs especially front-end, testing roles being replaced entirely. Ironically, only back-end, devops, cybersecurity appears to be safe as it is mission critical even when good chunk of the jobs are automated.
what leads to my conclusion is that your comment will hold true for the most part, much as people stopped buying newspapers once Google News took off, there will still be those that pay digital subscriptions for media outlets they support, in fact their market shares might increase as a result of creative destruction.
There are riches to be made during these chaotic times. There are none for those seeking to be a miner-for-hire anymore in a large chunk of the white collar space.
what if it was AI generated pornography?
but thats exactly why people are drawn to it
there is something about seeing shame, humiliation and violence in pornography that makes people tick
a big reason why most people dont really care about onlyfans
and why 90s to early 2000s pornography is sought after
Doesn't make me feel much better though. If FE is on its way out I'd bet BE is no more than a year behind.
the end product, the UI, is limited in terms of edge cases
the backend however, there is no limit. business logic, automation, all of these are endless edge cases.
if any FE engineers thinking they should switch to BE, its too late. There is large generation of those that have been using PHP since early 2000s, have seen everything under the sun, and their experience is irreplaceable
Rest assured BE engineers, your golden era is coming. The era without FE engineers hounding you for API parameters and QA rejecting your tickets for some UI bug.
Same thing for devops and cybersecurity. Your golden era is coming.
But, maybe with AI testing becomes more valued. As who else will validate that whatever AI generated does what we actually want. And then reports the issues for fine tuning.
Can you give me some public examples if it's so prevalent? I play around with the AI Dev tools and I can't see them being a feasible replacement for a human yet.
I also have friends that are copywriters, illustrators, photographers and they're pretty much the same as they always have been with another tool under their belt. So if you could also substantiate this claim I'd be curious.
but if you think these new generation of AI tools are some innocent augmentative processes you are gravely mistaken. What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training. What you will see come out next year will be a truly reckoning force.
Not even Indians are safe.
Surely the company you worked for can't be the only one replacing people with these tools. What about the companies that actually have thousands of devs on their payroll?
> What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training
Do these new generation AI tools have names, mentions, parent companies? Or is everything in this shadow realm covered by NDA and I, as a mere mortal, cannot access?
> Not even Indians are safe.
What does this even mean?
> What does this even mean?
You know, I'm genuinely curious; do you honestly not understand what OP meant or are you actually disagreeing with OP by asking a rhetorical question?
Deisteve appears to be claiming that LLM-based techniques for automating programming will be cheap and effective enough that even that kind of outsourcing will be unprofitable by comparison.
It's like Tesla creating a full self driving car (level 5) and ending the promotional video with "Not even rickshaw drivers are safe". Just fluff.
> Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or American ones for that matter. For the (unsubstantiated) claim that actual humans have been replaced.
The representation of Indonesian workers here is nil. Eastern European migrants are also unable to compete with the suppressed wages that Indian migrants can fill. It's an overwhelming motif playing out across all industries.
You can take a look at the scale of the exploitation of Indian migrant labour for reference:
This discussion is also away from my initial intent which was to find out any sort of source, whether it be a press release, a research paper, anything related to your claim of frontenders and testers being replaced.
I would still appreciate such an answer. Though I expect I'll be disappointed.
If something is simple enough to be semi-automated by writing scripts for low-trained humans, it's more likely to be simple enough to be fully automated by LLM "AI" than more complex jobs would be.
We are close to having open source tech that is on par with closed source tech (flux vs OpenAI Sora).
I’m not referring the patent holding media giants. I’m referring creative studios.