But when a senior can do the job of 6 coworkers, what do you suppose will happen to the coworkers?

In farming, those who were replaced by tractors did not keep their jobs. What is different now?

bluesnowmonkey a minute ago | parent | next [-]

With farming, you couldn't just start your own farm, because it requires farmland, and there's only so much of that. But those 6 software engineers can start their own companies, fire up their own team of agents. There's no limit to how many companies can exist in the world.

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jhrmnn 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nothing, it’s that same story again. Industrialization turned peasants to blue collar workers by mechanizing agriculture. Then blue collar workers were turned to white collar workers by mechanizing all manual labor. Now AI is coming for white collar workers by mechanizing intellectual labor. The big question is what will white collar workers turn into.

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Schiendelman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They build tractors, or sell tractors, or work in agricultural research and development...

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bel8 an hour ago | parent [-]

I highly doubt that a significant portion of farm labor became salesman or researchers. Builders? I could see that but robots already replaced a portion of those too.

	▲	kingleopold an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		less jobs creation is a almost certain for tech, but some people with high IQ get wayy more things done, they already do. This will spread to robots and other areas because robots are not automous yet, maybe will take decade(s). but meanwhile few operators will lead them in a more productive way? That's my bet. It's a clear, logical process with iterations. A lot of things are getting faster with AI, except energy production in some places in the world!
	▲	therepanic an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well, if that's the case, then in your concept the issue isn't what will happen to the programmers, but rather to all the work in general.

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logicchains 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

>what do you suppose will happen to the coworkers?

They need to go into business for themselves, and become capital owners, who benefit from AI, not workers who are replaced by it. AI won't be able to compete at entrepreneurship unless robots are given autonomy and property rights like humans, which is quite unlikely to happen any time soon.