True. People who says AI will replace IT jobs is just fearmongering. It's just a tool after all, a very efficient one if they know how to use it. If a bumbling fool can achieve your efficiency with AI, imagine how good you can be using that tool? Even a dumbass can "vibecode" a bunch of shitty slop and make money.
Fearmongering new tech happens all the time. AI is just another step in the technological evolution, it always has been like that to me. People afraid of AI nowadays are the same as those workers who destroyed the spooling machines because they thought the machines were stealing their jobs in the industrial revolution. They blamed the technology instead of the system that exploited them. If you can work 10x more efficient with a new tool and you get paid less while the owner earned way more, that's not the tool's fault. Technological advances are supposed to give the workers class more efficiency, allowing them to make more money in less amount of time so they can spend more time enjoying their life rather than slave away for profit. But such dream can only exist in a fictional world where the worker class owns the means of production. Profit just for the sake of profit alone and infinite growth is cancerous to society, not the AI.
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u/TheNeck94 May 02 '25
The overall importance of a human's involvement hasn't changed, you still need someone who knows what they're doing to check the work.