Every time new technology / industrial scaling radically deflates the cost of something it wipes out the old/expensive ways while creating massive demand for the supporting/complimentary value.

E.g. cheap Chinese solar panels wiped out German solar panel industry but created massive demand for solar panel installation and supporting services and infrastructure.

It's not a good position to be competing with AI directly... But what can you do that compliments it? What new skills could you learn?

Adapt and prosper.

Be like water.

Edit: to those down voting me, I can't help but assume your stance is the opposite of what I'm saying, something like "be stubborn scream into the void and get wiped out". If you would rather smash your head against something outside of your control instead of focusing on what is within your control, and doing what you can to prosper, then you are sabotaging yourself. If you feel that is justified to such an extent that you want to surpress a suggestion to someone else to get work and grow, I can't help but feel you want people to suffer.

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xbar a day ago | parent | next [-]

How did German solar panels end up adapting?

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FloorEgg a day ago | parent [-]

Most didn't. They went out of business. The companies that survived pivoted to installing panels and manufacturing the junction boxes.

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MSM a day ago | parent [-]

I think their point was that in this story many people see us (devs, coders) being the German solar panels, not the solar panel industry.

	▲	FloorEgg a day ago \| parent [-]
		Solar panels are inanimate objects. If you see yourself as incapable of adapting when adapting is necessary then yes you are doomed, but doomed by your own choice to be doomed.

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idiotsecant a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is, with respect, not very well thought out. There has never been a technology that replaced cognition in a general sense. It replaced muscles, hands, etc. when a technology can replace yourind and your body, what's left?

	▲	NichoPaolucci a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If this is the case, then all white collar jobs go away extremely quickly and.... economic collapse happens? And/Or, if/when they do replace cognition, there's essentially a "laserbeam of genius" and they'll point it directly at muscles and hands again, to replace physical labor. Of course, nobody knows where this goes, but as a software developer I have never been more busy. I am still worried, but if software developers go down I imagine much of the white collar world will follow, no?
	▲	FloorEgg a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It doesn't replace it in a general sense, it replaces it in a specific sense. It doesn't replace your body or your mind. I'm not talking hypothetically about a generation from now... I'm taking about this person fretting their job today. We are so far from AI putting everyone out of work that your comment comes off as not well thought out. What are we talking about here exactly???
	▲	patmorgan23 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The word "Computer" used to refer to a person whose job it was to Compute things.