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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 10 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 10 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.