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I wonder if in the 1800s people saw the first photograph and thought… “well, that’s the end of painters.” Others probably said “look! it’s so shitty it can’t even reproduce colors!!!”.
What it was the end of was talentless painters who were just copying what they saw. Painting stopped being for service and started being for art. That is where software development is going.
I have worked with hundreds of software developers in the last 20 years, half of them were copy pasters who got into software because they tricked people into thinking it was magic. In the future we will still code, just don’t bother with the thing the Prompt Engineer can do in 5 seconds.
I think a better way of saying this are people who were just doing it for a job, not because of a lot of talent or passion for painting.
But doing something just because it is a job is what a lot of people have to do to survive. Not everyone can have a profession that they love and have a passion for.
That's where the problem comes in when it comes to these generative AI.
And then the problem here is capitalism and NOT AI art. The capitalists are ALWAYS looking for ways to not pay us, if it wasnt AI art, it was always going to be something else
I think that's a bad analogy because of the whole being able to think part.
I'll be interested in seeing what (if anything) humans will be able to do better.
It was exactly the same as with AI art. The same histrionics about the end of art and the dangers to society. It's really embarrassing how unoriginal all this is.
Charles Baudelaire, father of modern art criticism, in 1859:
This attitude is not new, either. He addressed it thus:
The hardest part of coding is managing the project, not writing the content of one function. By the time LLMs can do that it's not just programming jobs that will be obsolete, it will be all office jobs.