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"Yes, the industry is going to shrink massively"

You meant "expand massively" i think. Did all the programmers manually making machine code get fired and the job of programmer disappear when compilers were invented and totally replaced these jobs? No, it just changed to use the new tool.

There wont be any unprecedented mass layoffs, despite what the jaded STEM-hating twitter crowd wants. Companies will simply make their programmers use these tools to increase the amount of produce per employee, and make software that would have been otherwise financially impossible to be made. Because the competition will do so too to get ahead.



  > You meant "expand massively" i think. 
Nope, I meant what I said.

> There wont be any unprecedented mass layoffs

Baghdad Bob strikes again.


Then youre wrong. There is no market incentive for layoffs due to GPT-like technology, as I have demonstrated above. Similar breakthroughs "replacing jobs" have happened before in the field of software engineering, this is nothing new or unprecedented. Its merely another tool that will become in widespread use to increase production.

What i think will lead to mass layoffs is the current recession rather.


  > this is nothing new or unprecedented
This is both new and unprecedented.


Huh? I literally just gave you an example of tech that automated away what 90% of programmers were doing.




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