đ How does AI impact my jobs
Itâs not their fault. They enrolled in a masterâs program to get a job in tech. Why? Letâs be candid: tech has promised job security and agreeable (sometimes borderline perverse) financial returns for a couple of decades. Many tech employers also spin a yarn about âsaving the worldâ and coast on the reputational allure of âif you work here, youâre a genius.â Sounds great, doesnât it? Except, now that students have invested five figures of money in their tech education1, had their skulls crammed full of âinvisible hand of the marketâ propaganda, and counted on having secured their ticket to the party, theyâre seeing layoffs. Theyâre seeing exposĂ©s. Theyâre seeing compensation adjustments at the most lucrative tech companies. And theyâre seeing a news cycle that oscillates wildly between blaming AI for these changes and extolling it as the solution.
you learn to write Dijkstraâs from a blank editor so you can get the job at Twitter, but once you accept the offer you never actually do that. What you need to do is understand, update, and (optimistically) un***k existing systems written by other people.
Are large language models gonna cause programmers to lose their jobs? Not anymore than StackOverflow did, in my view. However, it’s going to change themâŠsomewhat.