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Originally Posted by kermitology
Low performers are often also representative of new grads, they get smaller pieces of work to continue to develop their skills, with oversight by more senior people. If you replace these people with AI, you run the risk of wiping out an entire generation of developers who will, over time, become more senior developers capable of providing the kind of oversight required to evaluate the work of AI coders.
Remember what happened to manufacturing capacity when North American's out-sourced so much of their manufacturing?
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I have a friend in law that has more or less the same concerns. If AI improves to the point it can beat out a new lawyer, demand for new lawyers will drop off a cliff and nobody will become old lawyers.
Hopefully it's an obvious enough problem that we don't let it get to that, but then humanity gets in the way. Suddenly it's a prisoner's dilemma whereby it's the right decision to hire new human lawyers for the greater good... but if you don't, you can be the firm that saves a ton of money.