That "we" is overreaching, I'm not going to be, for one. If that's the way of future IT, fuck that IT and that future.
throughout all of human history we've responded to technological progress not by stagnating but by raising the bar. i dont see why it would be any different today. technology + human will always beat technology alone.
Throughout all of human history, humans were the substrate of value creation. When humans can be removed from the manual labor part of a problem, they are.
Now we're clearly entering a world where humans can be removed from the intelligent-problem-solving part of the problem.
How many more parts of problems are there?
Or come up with good projects that utilize these and provide services that Ai alone gannot provide.
And what that would be? Prostitution?
I think large database-related projects. Ai context will never be billions of tokens. And prostitution on the side. With both, we will make a good living.