Programers are going to be replaced by AI in the same way accountants got replaced by VisiCalc and engineers by CAD and mathematicians by calculators and software like Mathematica
You mean the part where you only need 5 people doing the job instead of 50?
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy
by Legend2440 on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:13PM
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And yet there are more engineers and accountants employed than ever.
And yet not keeping pace with the overall population increase of America. There’s also more companies than ever before.
That’s not “replacing” programmers. More like increasing their productivity
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy
by olddustytrail on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:54PM
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> mathematicians by calculators
Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers (as an occupation). To the point that most people don't even know it used to be a job for people.
I say calculators but there is a blurry line between early electronic computers and calculators. Portable electronic calculators also replaced the slide rule, around the late 1970s, which had been the instrument of choice for engineers for around 350 years!
> Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers
Imho you are underestimating the work of programmers if you compare them to “Computers”
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy
by olddustytrail on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:12PM
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I didn't mention programmers at all in my comment.
In fact the first programmers were mainly women because they came from a Computer background.
We could produce more cloth in safer working conditions.
If you want to understand our current moment, I would urge you to study that history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots