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Patrick McKenzie

I strongly endorse this sentiment.

(And I would happily bet against anyone believing total employment of engineers in US or median compensation of new hires at AppAmaGooFaceSoft declines over next 10 years.) https://t.co/yT17OnmOLU

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Simon Willison

A glib line I have said for years: the first AI designed to disemploy programmers was called a compiler. It worked very well and caused explosive growth in programmer employment.

“No humans have to understand complex systems at a granular level in the future” is a possible belief. I will short it to zero.

I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.

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