General Discussion

It's a very useful tool. I just don't see the job apocalypse coming from it soon though. Not because it's a bad tool or isn't improving, just that the worst case scenarios aren't really on the horizon soon IMO.

AI doesn't do jobs yet, it does tasks. Coder isn't a job, it's a task that a software engineer spends a lot of their time doing. SW engineers have a lot of other tasks that they are now doing, and even if AI is writing the code for them, there's still a lot to understand about the system and testing efforts, not to mention the documentation that comes with any piece of technology.

I think the economy is tanking right now because of tariffs and jobs falling off a cliff. I don't think people grasp how bad the last 14 months have been for job creation. It's 14 months of near zero job growth when in 2024 we saw the economy produce 2.2 Million jobs. I think CEOs are using AI as an excuse to lay people off because they don't want to talk about how much the tariffs destroyed their businesses and anger the orange Monster.

At my firm, AI is probably causing us to hire right now.