fp.

We have had a number of disruptions over time, discounting war based - iron tips swords versus bronze, the first one in the West was Gutenberg's printing which allowed the elimination of religious control schemes where small pamphlets/books to become mass markets that spread knowledge about religious corruption. In time we had the fine machinery revolution which led to the spinning jenny, and mass cloth production as well as identical mass part production allowing separate parts makers to collect diverse parts to make machines - the Ford Model A and T as well as rifles etc at low cost in huge volumes. And it continues - we have heard of the Luddites - who were composed of spinners unemployed by the spinning Jenny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Will we have 'Codites' = unemployed coders due to AI coding? We all know AI makes 'slop', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop We have all seen the press releases = microsoft lays off 10,000 coders etc. Many of these coders were lower echelon people = human slop makers. AI can make slop, but we now have better AI that detects/culls slop, so in a few years slop detection/culling has the raw speed to examine cross-associatively millions of lines of code to end up with acceptable, then better, then good and we will soon have free standing AI coders whose products have been fuzz-examined exhaustively for bugs so we will end up with better code. This will create a hierarchy of excellence where only the top coders/architects survive. So there will be a reduction of coder jobs - however, the huge mass of good and low cost code will enable far more complex machines/tasks at far lower cost so their work product will enable a larger numbers of jobs suited for people. This is what happened with the printing/spinning/industrial revolutions etc and that is what AI is now starting to do for humans.