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Gen Z and the generation afterwards, having had parts of their psychology destroyed by Tik Tok, ready access to AI for cheating school and such, will lack the attention span to properly learn time intensive skills such as coding and first principles engineering. Knowledge of complex maths and theorems will be lost and there will be generally no interest in things such as functional programming, proofs, math, etc.

Initially there will be a huge employment downturn as organisations follow the pattern of hiring a Gen Y expert and supplementing them with Gen Z juniors using increasingly good AIs.

After a while, the Gen Y seniors will retire and/or die and it will be impossible to source a senior developer with actual knowledge. Wages will skyrocket for a few Gen Z experts, but in general there will be a shortage and the entire industry will eventually reboot, although I am stuck to speculate how exactly.

At some point, we will lose the ability to quickly make advancement in AI because engineers will stop understanding how they work due to a lack of deep understanding in mathematics etc. and advancement will drop by 100x or 1000x.

Due to people becoming very lazy on average, capitalism will become ineffective and most governments will veer towards centralised services, or central planning/communism to cope with the lazy populous. A few people with work ethic approximate to today’s founder work ethic, or deep skills, will be worshipped.



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