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Exactly; being replaced is inevitable, the machines are going to end up more intelligent than us. At some point in the near to moderate future, selling the output of your brain is no longer going to be economically viable. I hope we'll figure out some equitable society before that, but I'm not going to bet on it, so I'll do what I can to be on the side of the winners.

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I think we will, tbh.

But I also think these people saying, “how dare you use AI to write code” for ideological reasons or some variation on that theme are silly.

I don’t think they’re silly, though I don’t think it’s right to vilify the end users just because the people who’ve created the technology are criminals and the technology has lots of bad effects overall. Do you think it’s silly if these people protest the technology without vilifying people who choose to use it?

Oh, I definitely think its silly.

"Nobody should use nail guns! It's against the true carpenter ethos."

Nobody is spazzing out about Makita because they produce drill drivers and people can't built things with a plane and a manual screw driver. I think it's all silly.

But Makita isn't selling machines that can decide how to build the house, and then go do it. AI tools are a mind and mechanism. They're a full replacement for the human, especially in the software space.

I think we're genuinely not far from taking end user tickets and turning them into requirements and working code autonomously.

The only remaining work for us monkeys is manual testing and verification that everything is actually working as desired.

Why does it matter? I would love it if I could get my drill driver to build the cabin for me. It would save me a shitload if work.

I actually have no problem with that either? Mechanical minds or mechanical muscles, who cares?

Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Humans aren't needed, and we can drop them from the economy. Hopefully after we figure out some sort of utopia, but probably not -- so I'm doing what I can to avoid the permanent underclass that gets run over by AI.

I’m sure there were peasants in feudal times who escaped the permanent underclass by joining some army, only to get slaughtered in a pointless battle. Even if there’s some underclass society is going to keep evolving and evolving. I don’t think anybody alive today knows what the future looks like.

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