Coders are gonna get especially screwed by AI, compared to other industries that were disrupted by leaps in technology.

Look at auto assembly. Look at how many humans used to be involved in that process. Now a lot of the assembly is performed by robotics.

The real sad part is that there’s tons of investment (in terms of time and in terms of money) to become a skilled programmer. Any idiot can read a guide on Python and throw together some functional scripts, but programming isn’t just writing lines of code. That code comes from tons of experience, experiments, and trial and error.

At least auto workers had unions though. Coders don’t have that luxury. As a profession it really had its big boom at a time when people had long since been trained to be skeptical of them.