I'll guess we'll se a lot of analogies and have to get used to it, although most will be off.

AI can be an exoskeleton. It can be a co-worker and it can also replace you and your whole team.

The "Office Space"-question is what are you particularly within an organization and concretely when you'll become the bottleneck, preventing your "exoskeleton" for efficiently doing its job independently.

There's no other question that's relevant for any practical purposes for your employer and your well being as a person that presumably needs to earn a living based on their utility.

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qudat 18 hours ago | parent [-]

> It can be a co-worker and it can also replace you and your whole team.

You drank the koolaide m8. It fundamentally cannot replace a single SWE and never will without fundamental changes to the model construction. If there is displacement, it’ll be short lived when the hype doesn’t match reality.

Go take a gander at openclaws codebase and feel at-ease with your job security.

I have seen zero evidence that the frontier model companies are innovating. All I see is full steam ahead on scaling what exists, but correct me if I’m wrong.

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random3 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn’t it delusional to argue about now, while ignoring the trajectory?

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qudat 14 hours ago | parent [-]

The trajectory hasn’t changed: they scaled generating code, a great feat, but someone has to apply higher level abstract thinking to make the tool useful. Running agents in a cron or having non SWEs use it will not last longer than a prototype. That will not change with scaling pattern matching algorithms.

	▲	jazz9k 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is true. AI won't replace software developers completely, but it will reduce the need for software developers in the long-run, making it harder to find a job. A few seniors+AI will be able to do the job of a much larger team. This is already starting to look like reality now. I can't imagine what we will see within 5 years.