By tarazkp on Skatehive
For years I have been in the camp that automation is going to decimate our species in ways we can't even imagine. This is well before Gen-AI entered into the conversation and I could go back to conversations I had in the 90s about it. However, the pushback has always been pretty strong, saying first that "the technology won't be good enough to replace humans" and then that "even if it is, we will go on to other things like we did in past technology revolutions". Short-sightedness is the condition of the masses. Even a decade or so ago when the conversation of self-driving cars came about and I would mention the impact on professional drivers and all the industry that supports like roadhouses and cafés, people said things like "they can retrain to do other things, like software programming". Because you know, there is no way in the world that coding can be automated... Again, people are short-sighted. Anything codifiable can be automated, and with the right code to deal with exceptions