alt Hacker NewsI've spent my 20 year career working largely in medical software. The only jobs I've been replacing are pancreas that stop functioning correctly.
Maybe don't speak for all of us.
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BeetleB • yesterday at 8:55 PM
My comment wasn't about you in particular but the industry as a whole.
Much of the software written historically is to automate stuff people used to do manually.
I'd wager you use email, editors, search engines, navigation tools and much more. All of these involved replacing real jobs that existed. When was the last time you consulted a city map?
Computers themselves replaced computers (yeah, a job title). Your medical software certainly automatizes someone else's job, otherwise no one will pay you to write them. You just don't care about them.
Or you do, but you believe it's worth it because your software helped more patients, or improved the overall efficiency and therefore created more demand and jobs - a belief many pro-AI people hold as well.