From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-08-06, John McCue wrote:   
   > Followups trimmed to: comp.lang.fortran   
   >   
   > In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >> “A sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and   
   >> white-collar jobs”   
   >>   
   >> https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-s   
   ort-term-warning-about.html   
   >>   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.   
   >> I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging   
   >> around the place.  I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.   
   >   
   > I agree with this, & do not forget COBOL :)  Github's   
   > CEO came out with something similar as what Bayou said   
   > yesterday I think.  Remember, almost all CEOs moved up   
   > through marketing or finance.  They have do idea what   
   > development is.   
   >   
   > I think these CEOs are in a dreamworld about AI.  I have   
   > been programming for multiple decades and have seen many   
   > iterations of that dream.  All it did was create more jobs   
   > for developers and raised their pay.  I expect nothing   
   > different from AI.   
      
   The main problem with "AI" as we know it today is that it's going to gut   
   a lot of the "junior" roles (programmer, what-have-you), since there is   
   kind of a big push of "you don't need that new kid to do this for you,   
   just ask the AI!"   
      
   Which kind of has echoes of a story my grandma told me once (she was a   
   computer for a bit) along the lines of her department having to re-do a   
   week's work because "The IBM" came up with a different answer.  Turned   
   out the machine was wrong...   
      
   I'm not sure it's going away, but it's definitely going to change the   
   landscape (unless / until it absolutely cripples some big name company).   
      
      
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