I wonder though, can AI make the next JS framework. I mean that in sincerity, there was the leap from jQuery to React for ex. If an AI only knows jQuery and no one makes React, will React come out of AI.

News: "AGI refuses to make another JS framework, rages on the follies of misguided developers and their wateful JS crutches"

Developer community: Wow, we truly have become obsolete now!

In a shocking twist, it turns out that Mootools is the agents' preferred framework

Who will be the disrupters when there is nothing to disrupt

A thought experiment: When all practical software is only written by AIs, will the AIs use goto? What will the programming language of AIs look like?

My bet is something _like_ assembly, but not assembly.

That being said, I think humans will still program for fun. Just like we paint portraiture in a world with cameras.

Yeah that's my thing for my hardware projects, I'm not going to reach for an LLM to do it, I want to write the code myself/be present. For something new I would consider using LLM to generate something, like a computer vision implementation or something I don't already know. The end result I would know how it works, just for POC.

I think it won't be like assembly, because it takes more information vs building blocks that have more dense information in them, kind of like how we use libraries and frameworks

There will be a new language created optimized for AI development

It can't. Framework hierarchy is largely based on social structure, rather than pure technical merit. Otherwise React would've been displaced long time ago.

People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.

The history of the last 250 years is inventing new professions as old ones are automated away.

I expect that to continue.

The history of the last 250 was moving from agriculture to industrial work to service work. Now the last frontier is starting to be overtaken by automation too.

(And in all of those transitions millions where left behind without work or with very worse prospects. The people that took the new jobs were often a different group, not people who knew the old jobs and were already in their 30s and 40s).

And what would be the new professions that uniquely require humans, when even thinking and creative jobs are eaten by AI? Would there be a boom of demand for dancers and chefs, especially as millions lose their service jobs?

Given some sort of machine with human capabilities, there would be no reason to assign that profession to a human, excepting perhaps cost.

Like doordashing and pokemon card reselling.

Don't forget OnlyFans and streaming.

Doordash and similar are experimenting with autonomous/remotely operated vehicles and porn is getting decimated once good enough uncensored video gen ai gets available. That doesn't sound like viable career choices either.

> The history of the last 250 years is inventing new professions as old ones are automated away.

Even if this still holds true ("past performance is no guarantee of future results") the part about it that people handwave away without thinking about or addressing is how awful the transitional period can be.

The industrial revolution worked out well for the human labor force in the long term, but there were multiple generations of people who suffered through a horrendous transition (one that was only alleviated by the rise of a strong labor movement that may not be replicable in the age of AI, given how it is likely to shift the leverage of labor vs. capital).

If you want to lean on history as an indication that massive sudden productivity changes will make things better for humanity in the long run, then fine, but then you have to acknowledge that (based on that same history) the transition could still be absolutely chaotic and awful for the lifespan of anyone who is currently alive.

It's happening, but theres no law of the universe that says it has to be 1:1. Why are you so confident in this regard? 250 years is a very small slice of human history and could easily be the outlier.

This is the kind of sleep walking that’s about to walk humanity into the next dark ages.

My parents say a lot of stuff like this. They tend to gloss over the untold suffering, great depressions and world wars that took us to get here.

The planets resources were also not in risk of running out. As the world is min maxed by billionaires, it nice the lower classes are drained of all capital, they will soon move to fighting each other for resources. the future is looking pretty grim for even the most optimistic of scenarios

> They tend to gloss over the untold suffering, great depressions and world wars that took us to get here..

spot on. you gotta wear shades to survive, future so bright.

> The history of the last 250 years is inventing new professions as old ones are automated away.

Are you going to have the time and money in 2035 to spend 5 years retraining though? Will you be as cheap and fast as the young ones that will learn with you and ask for half your salary?

New professions will likely come no doubt. Whether existing professionals will be able to transition to those easily is another matter.