Man, sympathies to everyone caught up in this. The hits keep on coming.
You know, monopoly commissions are always worried about how mergers will affect the market for consumers, but maybe they should also start asking how they affect the *job* market for staff…
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs
@antonyjohnston I think Software Engineers will be among the first to lose their jobs to AI, along with journalists, because their job is already to put information into a computer. A computer can do that more easily than it can build a fence, or diagnose and fix a broken toilet.
@hoco @antonyjohnston In the near term, AI makes us programmers (i.e. software engineers) more efficient. (I'm thinking about tools like Github's Copilot.) Potentially, more efficient in the sense that we'll do things we wouldn't even have contemplating doing before.
I think over the next couple years it will be very significantly more efficient. It will be interesting to see if this means we have less programmers, or if we just do a lot more programming with the same number of people.
