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Computer Science is the science of solving (hard) problems in general. If you automate CS, you trivially automate most of other professions. The only ones that won't budge are the regulated ones like lawyers, MDs and similar that have ways to prevent AI from wrecking their fields. Product/Project PMs are easy pickings. We'll also see wreckage coming to highly paid actors in the near future.

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Exactly this, software engineering is “intelligence complete.” If you can solve it, you can solve all knowledge work.

No, it isn't, and the fact that software engineers think this despite being incredibly stupid about 99.5% of knowledge work is why everyone else hates software engineers.

To me it is almost tautological that what I said is true. If software can’t solve a knowledge work problem, that means the software isn’t good enough and needs improved.

I also question your claim that “everyone hates software engineers,” because I find they’re reasonably well liked in general. Perhaps you’re assuming what I meant was something like “if someone is good at software engineering then they’re smarter than all other knowledge workers,” which is blatantly not true (and indeed, not my point).

> We'll also see wreckage coming to highly paid actors in the near future.

How is that going to work? People going to see a movie advertised as starring a well-known actor will be lured to see a movie starring unknown AI models?

AI "in the likeness of well-known actor" surely is enough for most of the slop-eating pigs Hollywood serves.

It might be "enough" but it's not how the show industry works. There is no human story around it; the well-known actors and the people around them would have to be quite stupid to allow it too. And taking this development into the extreme, there will be no living well-known actors, just ai slop everywhere, and while the audience might not be the most demanding, surely that's not enough to make money in the long term.

Explain to me how automating CS automates waiters and chefs.

Most will be replaced by the Soylent green factory after waiters and chefs become a niche luxury for those who did not find themselves economically crushed.

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