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In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the number of positions will be reduced as much as the owning class can get away with

Well, after all, you don't hire people to do nothing. It's simply a late-stage capitalism thing. Hopefully one day we can take the benefits of that extra productivity and share the wealth. The younger generations seem like they might move us that way in the coming decades.

[โ€“] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I really hope so. Sometimes I think the kids are alright. Like the 12 year old owning the My Pillow idiot. Then I hear the horror stories from my school teacher friends.