Regarding the popular belief that AI will take jobs... If 10 (or 2 or 20...) developers can be replaced by 1 dev using AI, why fire 9 (or 1 or 19) of them when your competitors now could be 10X (or 2X or 20X) more productive by giving AI tools to their 10 (or 2 or 20...) devs?
If you own an organization and can afford to pay the salaries of 10 (or 2 or 20...) souls, you'd have to be very cheap and short-sighted to prefer reducing your payroll instead of boosting your productivity 10X (or 2X or 20X).
I don't see AI taking jobs, I see AI:
- Taking companies/organizations owned by cheap people.
- Taking huge projects ―like building a browser or an OS from scratch― to small groups or even solo developers.
If you own an organization and can afford to pay the salaries of 10 (or 2 or 20...) souls, you'd have to be very cheap and short-sighted to prefer reducing your payroll instead of boosting your productivity 10X (or 2X or 20X).
I don't see AI taking jobs, I see AI:
- Taking companies/organizations owned by cheap people.
- Taking huge projects ―like building a browser or an OS from scratch― to small groups or even solo developers.