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Why AI will take your job (and it’s not what you think)

Mateusz Charytoniuk on February 25, 2024

It’s not because it will learn how to code soon, it doesn’t seem like it. So far it can produce one-off things like a landing page or a single http...
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Surendar

This is very clear! Thank you,so what is your suggestion?

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Mateusz Charytoniuk

In the short term I think it will be wise to embrace the AI and look for useful applications of it.

In the long term I think programming is in the same position as seamstresses from Avignon when the sewing machine was invented.

Do we still need to sew clothes? Yes. Do we do with just a needle and thread? Not really.

Do we still need to make apps? Yes. Do we do that with code? So far yes, in the future I think not really.

What is the alternative? I think it’s best not to focus on just maintaining job but to try to think new ways to optimize general processes and information flow using AI. That’s what this was about from the beginning