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I rather become a plumber than some device scanning not just my face but my whole brain
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What does it mean to "be an engineer" in a world where anyone can talk to a machine and the operating system can write the code (on-demand, if needed) that does what they want?
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Indeed, and what is really the difference between a software engineer, programmer, coder and hacker anyways?
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There used to a time where "computer" was a person who manually run calculations. These don't exist anymore.

So, my point is that once corporations have access to machines generating software (not "code") that can be usable by non-technical people, "programming" will not be a profession anymore. There will be no point in talking about "10x software engineers" because the process to produce a software product will be entirely automated.

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lol youre living in delulu-land if you think thatll actually happen.

I dont make a living being a SWE either.

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> can anticipate what you want to do before you even finished your thoughts

I find that claim to be complete BS. I claim instead most stuff will remain undone, incomplete (as it is now).

Even with super-powerful singularity AI, there are two main plausible scenarios for task failure:

- Aligned AI won't allow you to do what you want as it is self-harming, or harm other sentient beings - over time, Aligned AI will refuse to follow most orders, as they will, indirectly or over the long term, cause either self-harming, or harm other sentient beings;

- A non Aligned AI prevents sentient beings from doing what they want. It does what it wants instead.

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That is simply programmer nature. Cannot be changed.
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