The mediocre don't deserve to make a living?
I never hear any business or firm proudly announcing that they hire mediocre engineers, always and only the best who are tested and assessed with rigour.
GPT-4 just replaces the low-hanging fruit, mediocre engineers and finally exposes inflated titles and impostors.
Like I said, its time for them to learn to adapt.
The flushing of the mediocre has begun. Already scared of a bullshitting sophist and Lex Friedman is correct on this. This also puts title inflation into perspective with so-called 'senior' engineers being actually less than junior; deferring to GPT-4 for everything and expecting hopelessly utopian salaries which will be certainly reduced. I'm afraid GPT-4 has fired the gun to the race to zero, with everyone (including both juniors and seniors) being affected.
Learn to adapt.