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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It'll be like when we were all supposed to lose our jobs to outsourcing

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

And when "web frameworks means we don't need web developers anymore" and when "COBOL is basically plain English, so anyone can code, so we don't need specialists anymore".

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Millions did. It's just that after a while the advantages stopped being convincing and the trend reversed. If the same thing happens here, expect to go jobless for a while until you're needed again.