alt Hacker NewsOf course but unfortunately it reduces the amount of jobs 100x or more. You don’t need 30 software developers at a startup anymore. You just need one.
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riffraff • today at 2:18 PM
I think it won't reduce jobs by 100x but yes, some jobs will be lost.
I think it's right to put effort towards necessary regulatory and political changes, but there's no point in trying to deny the change.
slopinthebag • today at 8:02 AM
That just means you can have 30x more startups!
This sounds like the lump of labor fallacy
It seems almost certain to me that AI is going to increase the surface area of what it’s possible for programs to do and therefore massively induce demand for more programs
I think the part that remains to be seen is whether a sufficient percent of that new work will be done by humans such that overall demand for the humans doesn’t collapse
Personally I think us humans will be ok for at least a few more years