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thewhitetuliplast Monday at 6:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

> The "General Labor Substitute": He rejects the idea that his employment forecasts are "doom marketing". Instead, he asserts that AI will act as a general substitute for human labor, noting that most software engineering could be entirely automated within 1 to 2 years

When someone says all Software engg could be automated within 1yr they don't mean 'oh use our agents and keep human in loop'

They mean 'AI superior than humans fire all humans and all SWEs will be jobless'

I am not going to reply to you going forwards as I can't speak with someone who lives in a different universe


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simonwlast Monday at 11:01 AM

Have you watched the video where that was said, as opposed to just reading interpretations of it from people with their own assumptions?

https://youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?is=UsJrcLRgdSUd38Jt

Here's a transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0050b4ce40439b97598d4ffdb273d...

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aurareturnlast Monday at 7:58 AM

News flash: most of software engineering is already automated. When was the last time you wrote code?

They did not claim there is no human involved.

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