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Re: Gen AI will increase demand for software engineers

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It’s not my expertise. However, if it’s a barrier to adoption it’s a problem to solve and will be. AI is exponentially improving and there is no reason to believe that this won’t continue.

That's not how technology typically advances. Technology advances in waves. There's an initial breakthrough that leads to rapid progress in certain areas. But after some time there are diminishing returns as the the applications of that breakthrough are fully explored, and progress slows or stops until the next breakthrough. Predicting that the trajectory of progress for the next 20 years will match the progress that…

I guess we will see, but I can tell you after nearly 40 years of being in technology, I have never seen us go backwards, only forward and in the last 5 years forwards faster than ever.

And with that experience I am advising my grandkids to look at trades for their future careers. Because there is zero doubt in my mind that nearly every job that requires a college education today is going to be gone in 20 years.

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