AI

Software engineers are now experiencing what mechanical engineers experienced in the 1970s and 1980s when FEA and CAD applications began to automate much of the calculation and drafting work that previously defined the profession.

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 how AI will replace the 30-40% of workers who have fake email jobs? The last time we had a wave of automation in office work (rise of the computer) - we just created a lot of new busywork. How is AI any different?

It's far easier to automate tasks than it is to automate jobs. Tasks (ex: creating a status report) tend to be specific, self-contained and legible in nature. They can be seen as discrete and atomic units of work. In contrast, jobs tend to be broad webs that span a multitude of diverse tasks. These webs are threaded together with amorphous things... See more

software engineers are extremely well paid, this means that software has always been supply-side constrained most companies, even with billions of dollars at their disposal, are incapable of shipping even basic functional websites that aren’t riddled with bugs… 1/