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"We'll be paying you less so you can help us replace you"

indeed. But I guess people will ride the wave in automating their career away as long as they get theirs. I can only imagine how Gen Alpha is going to experience this workforce.

I always thought of automating my career away as, you know, a success story. Your solutions and knowledge become code, which lets the next generation build on top.

I initially would agree. Automate the tedious stuff and then you or the next generation builds more tech on that. That's how it worked for some 3-4 generations in tech.

The unfortunate part here is that there may not be a next generation with the way the incentive structures are setup. If there is, I highly, highly doubt any of Gen Alpha will enjoy the compensation that SWE's in the 00's and 10's did. We're aiming to be the next EE's in terms of career trajectory. And we certainly don't have the safety nets needed for a post-jobs world as of now.

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