Yes, AI Will Take Your Job

I think this article takes some assumptions for granted:

1. AI will get better, and at a price point that makes sense for businesses to operate on.

2. "Managers" (non-technical users) will be as good at using AI as "frontend engineers" (technical users) or make something of comparable quality.

3. All or most technical problems can be solved by AI.

I think the title and take for this type of doom thinking is not really productive. AI is really just a tool which does some unit of work, it cannot on its own "find gold". Some people are better at using it than others, and there is a reason why the largest AI companies have continued to hire YOY for more top talent and employees.

Some jobs will be replaced, or have their expectations changed extensively. But the idea its going to take all knowledge workers jobs, is a path that needs a lot of things to go wrong for it to occur.

If AI replaces most software developers, it may be because there is less use for the software (read: mostly SaaS applications) developers are employed to build. Or otherwise, there will be fewer people who will want to buy software (or buy it indirectly from ad conversion).

Yes, the horse will take your job.

Yes, the written word will take your job.

Yes, fire job take.

Yes, the automobile will take your and the horse’s job.

Yes, we’re all doomed. Might as well go back up the trees and start hollering.

And die in large numbers, yes.

TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.