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The Future. Because AI is well-suited to the rigid rules and repetitive structures of code, many are already using it to replace human labor. AWS’ CEO thinks that AI will make human programmers’ jobs nearly unrecognizable in two years, but will those jobs simply change — or disappear completely, leaving thousands without work?
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AWS CEO Matt Garman said in an internal meeting that AI will take over programming within two years.
- Garman pitched this as an opportunity for human programmers to learn new skills and focus more on innovation and less on implementation.
- The CEO means that Al wouldn’t replace the workers but take over the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” of coding so that people don’t have to do it.
- But it’s hard to believe that when AWS has already laid off hundreds of employees earlier this year.
Promotion: unemployed
It’s hard to see this change leading anywhere other than massive layoffs. Similar to Garman, other CEOs have claimed that AI will turn everyone into programmers, or create one billion developers, or even eliminate human programmers within five years (and possibly politicians). And they all lead to the same place.
One billion unpaid AI programmers may be good as zero programming jobs, as far as humans are concerned.
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