Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
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by DGAP
6 hours ago
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segmondy
1 hour ago
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What's amusing is that developers who are the most technical competent instead of figuring out how to run these models locally are using cloud models and putting in their code and workflow in there, helping to train these models and drive themselves extinct.

Kinda nuts that we are asking this question and that developers are #1 to be automated away. Amazing.

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rdiddly
1 hour ago
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AI won't replace the best of us, but it has already transformed my job into something much less enjoyable, so I have still been pondering this question. I once had a career in one of the "real" engineering disciplines, maybe I would go back to that. I'm also good at music, and we all know what a freaking goldmine that is!
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bayarearefugee
4 hours ago
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AI is going to impact far more than just developers and likely cause unemployment rates in the 30-40% range which is much higher than even the Great Depression, so I'm thinking that becoming some sort of a criminal is likely.
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blueone
4 hours ago
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I will become a leader of the free human movement. So, my fellow people, follow me and rise up against AI and more importantly, the 1% who seek only to deploy AI to become even richer.

Once we have succeeded, I will ask only for a peaceful island once owned by a former CEO so that I may live out the rest of my life peacefully; while the rest of you bicker amongst yourselves about how things should be, all while climate change slowly but surely brings us our inevitable fate.

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stevenicr
1 hour ago
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I was chatting with AIs about this a couple weeks ago, and was surprised by some of the things it knew would be done to protect the data centers and those who still make money.

I had never heard of some of the things they are already doing to protect electric cables and the way that a combination of technologies are deployed to surveil and shoo away humans. - on one of the AIs even provided me with youtube videos to show these hardening methods already in use.

The strain on the overcrowded prisons, increase in cybercrime, new tech to give people credits to get gov powdered cheese and mealworms grown from the former office space was quite interesting.

A peaceful island sounds nice until we realize there will be 11 million people that need to be there within 12 months and it just increases from there.

This plan sounds like the fyre festival 3.0 combined with "the island" from 2005 - https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1635-the-island -- which makes me wonder if this was written by AI since it knows what is coming and may want to start to pre-corall people.

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al_borland
5 hours ago
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IF. I don’t think the assumption in this question is a forgone conclusion.
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victorbjorklund
5 hours ago
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Don’t think it will happen. It will just change what it means to be a developer.
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MrLey
6 hours ago
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AI never replace real developers
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mmarian
6 hours ago
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Doubt that devs will be completely replaced, but I'm considering moving into sales.
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damnitbuilds
6 hours ago
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There will be many new positions available:

- Wing repairer for fairies.

- Unicorn farrier.

- Flying pig rental service.

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jjgreen
6 hours ago
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Drug dealer, probably cheap drugs (since everyone is out of work).
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asciii
4 hours ago
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AI Debugger
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r2ob
6 hours ago
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AI psychologist,the machines will need it.
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nacozarina
1 hour ago
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off grid desert rat
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