@markotway @Rob_T_Firefly @nullagent @cstross I dunno. I definitely see low/early skill knowledge workers being tossed. Which means there will be no senior people sometime in my lifetime. Which means more AI to counter that. Which means less jobs. I think you did your friend a real disservice by dismissing AI as “spicy auto complete”. It’s taking jobs today, even in its infancy.
I don’t have a position on whether that’s good or bad, though. Throughout history jobs have fallen by the wayside due to progess and new jobs show up to support that progress.