AI’s Impact on Career Programmers
My great-great grandfather was a typesetter. This was at the time an in demand and well paid career but one doomed to made obsolete. Typesetters were replaced by new technologies over time. There was phototypesetting, laser imagesetting and digital typesetting. At each point the output became cheaper, faster, more reliable and more complex. Each iteration changed everything about how the end result was made. Less people working on a specific task but able to do more work at the same time. Page designers creating massive and intricate layouts and whose job qualifications have little overlap with the original typesetters still perform similar tasks.