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"The last people to be replaced are going to be software devs"
If your job is to write code so people can look at data and make decisions based on that data, you're gonna be the second to go.
But, the majority of developers I know, including myself, are ultimately writing software to be used by humans, typically presenting data that is comprehensible to humans, so that they can make decisions.
If AI advances to the point where similar decisions can be made by machines, looking at the same data, then I fear that entire classes of applications will disappear, and with them, the need for developers who build them.
Obviously, we'll still need developers, though perhaps far fewer than are needed today. Perhaps software development will go through the same revolution that agriculture did, where from we went from > 90% to < 3% of the population being involved.
I'm curious to read parts 1 & 2, wish there were clear links to them in "Part 3".