maxwoj

It’s middle of the night and I cannot sleep because of what I expect will happen with almost all jobs in the next decade. 2023 is the down of new era. Almost everyone will be out of job. Even the jobs requiring what we call “unskilled labor” involve things replaceable by AI - object recognition, spacial awareness, reacting to unexpected situations, decision making. I see all these gurus on Twitter saying we just need to be “ahead of curve” and I think they miss the point so badly. There won’t be staying “ahead of curve” In the long run, AI will do better whatever it may be invented or done

It sounds like Russians and Chinese are to be blamed. I bet American billionaires had been involved decades earlier, including all American and European funds. Our tycoons lobbied our legislators and regulators way before the foreign billionaires came to riches and realized they may make money on our market as well.

I wonder why you got downvoted. I've found the paper you had linked quite interesting and to the point of this discussion

Automating house renovation or even house building is a challenge which will take a few decades more. Some trouble of bricklayer automation described in today's HN: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-rob...

Requirement logic and interaction with customer to shape it is the domain of the Business Analyst (or similar position). I can imagine that BAs in our company, equipped with a slightly better version of the Copilot, could prepare a lot of code. BAs in our company have limited knowledge of coding. Yet I'm quite certain that they are capable of selecting the right implementation proposed by the Copilot, in most cases. Without resorting to developer's help, they would just click to prepare are routine. Like automated checkouts in the supermarkets, they don't make the checkout jobs disappear completely, but they're substantially reducing the need for them.

Of course the robots will take all the manual labor over. However, the machines will take IT jobs much faster. Most likely one or two decades sooner.

I fully agree, yet I see this tool as a mere prelude to a world where we, developers, we're gonna be obsolete. At first, the AI will produce some mess and fixing it would be lucrative. In the long run, the AI will create software based on paradigms we human couldn't understand.

I'm in the industry since 20 years and gradually at the spare time I'm learning skills in house renovation. I think in the next 10-15 years I'll loose my job as software developer do to AI and will resort to some manual labor. Hoping I'd survive till retirement

“130 degrees Fahrenheit” - seriously? What else, pounds and feet?

Imagine world, where a man would be free to start a family, without the need to be dependent on a woman to exercise his reproductive rights. Without the fear that a woman will use the so called “justice system” as a weapon to take his kids and possessions away anytime she find suitable

It is true but it proves nothing. US has ridiculously inflated health care prices. According to this article https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47491964 monthly cost of diabetics treatment in 2016 was $19 in Italy and $360 in the US. So US is spending here over 20 times more for the same treatment.

Here’s about the $1.1M bill for the 62 days treatment https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/inspiring-story-of...

They charged $2,835 a day for the ventilator. Seriously? You may buy brand new ventilator for 29,000 PLN in Poland which is around $7500, hospital usage certified ‘PHILIPS RESPIRONICS TRILOGY 100’. You may rent brand new top model of Lamborghini in Los Angeles for around $2500 a day. In Europe they won’t even charge for the ventilator. The room, which costs on that bill $9,736 a day should be already equipped in everything what’s necessary to support life. If the room price doesn’t cover the equipment, does it mean it’s just 9k for the bed a day?