alt Hacker NewsSo it largely sounds like many more people will be able to write software - and will use AI to do it. Existing software engineers will continue to automate their tasks away like they always did, but perhaps at a faster rate.
The impact of AI in other fields seems to be muted.
I think it is applicable to a much wider range of knowledge work, but it's also harder to apply there.
Software development has the huge advantage that mistakes and hallucinations are very easy to spot: the software works or it doesn't.
Spotting errors in a research report or legal brief is a whole lot harder!
But... non-software professionals spend a huge amount of their time on tasks that can be safely automated - reformatting documents, extracting numbers from PDFs, all kinds of flavor of data entry.
Learning how to use a tool like Claude Cowork can take a big dent out of those.