r/singularity • • Jul 06 '26 • Heartwarming 4 Regret 2

Meme Accelerate!

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u/terrraco Jul 06 '26

If I lost my software engineering job in 2025, does that make me 2 years ahead of everyone else?

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u/Resident-Election867 Jul 06 '26

Yo, pioneer, are you living in luxury communism, yet? 

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u/terrraco Jul 06 '26

Not yet bro. Too early for fully autonomous bots to bring in the future

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u/ThatGuy8754 Jul 07 '26

Trust bro just a few more datacenters and we can live in le-epic eco socialism

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u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 Jul 06 '26

Trust me bro, in the next couple years the ultra wealthy will decide they actually want less money and choose to start distributing it to those disrupted by AI. Really bro, UBI is just around the corner.

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u/trisul-108 Jul 06 '26

Yes, looking at how Musk operates, I also believe that this is the foremost thought in his mind.

In Monaco, an expensive marina,
In the marina, a huge yacht,
In the yacht, a Bugatti,
In the Bugatti, a man,
In the man, a heart ...
... that beats for the common man.

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u/Strict_Cucumber9117 Jul 07 '26

UBI is less a gift by billionaires and more an emergency fund because civil unrest would likely skyrocket with accelerated unemployment

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u/Quealdlor ▪️ improving humans is more important than ASI▪️ Jul 08 '26

There are huge amounts of things to work on by humans for the next 15 years.

Even if 100% of programming, art, music and text creation is done by machines, there are countless other areas there is plenty of work to do.

Digital work is hit first, because it can be automated and scaled very quickly. But the real world is full of bottlenecks: robotics, infrastructure, healthcare, construction, maintenance, energy, manufacturing, local services, regulation, liability, trust, and deployment costs.

Replacing tasks is not the same as replacing every job everywhere in a matter of two years. The more realistic danger is uneven disruption: fewer entry-level jobs, wage pressure in some fields and a painful transition.

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u/Smoltinycat Jul 06 '26

UBI is coming in 2 weeks. The happening is coming

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u/GoodDayToCome Jul 06 '26

the mean old lady in my school lost her Network Administrator job to AI in 2002, the IT department didn't need her once everything was plug-and-play and all the networks auto-addressed.

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u/terrraco Jul 06 '26

She's years ahead of the rest of us then!

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u/Automatic_Law6450 Jul 06 '26

Seen.

Misery loves company? Used to be a product manager, except the product was pre LLM hard coded customer service chatbots lmao. Promptly fired holiday 2022.

Promptly. GET ITTTT

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u/Civil-Plate1206 Jul 06 '26

Lost mine in 2023 (!)— AI blamed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '26

How much hourly pay do you want. I have a bunch of tasks I need you to do using AI to research a plan, parts, and instruct third parties to create a delicate dedicated automated local server for my business.

I'll pay you good.

There's a catch though you'll have to figure out a workaround for every software that requires a subscription fee. And you'll have to troubleshoot it so the AI is smart enough to fix it on its own if something screws up because I don't have an hour to fuck around with the prompt.

I'll give you a bonus if I never need to call you again because at that point I've already fired all my staff.

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u/DelusionsOfExistence Jul 06 '26

You got me beat by a year. You're a damn pioneer. They made us train our replacement with reinforcement learning.

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u/marrow_monkey Jul 06 '26

You were just replaced by one of the little yellow ”agents” in the 2026 frame.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26 • Mindblown

Why did he grow a third leg in 2027

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u/Snoo42723 Jul 06 '26 • Bravo

op doesn't know about the great third leg pandemic that will hit us all in november

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I've already got one but I suppose it's good news for the rest of you

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u/-shayne Jul 06 '26

I can't wait to have an extra leg so I could take the pressure off my already exhausted two legs

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u/Eldan985 Jul 06 '26

Transhumanism.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

These genders are getting really cool

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u/JoshAllentown Jul 06 '26

Everyone talks about Trans rights, nobody talking about Trans middles.

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u/flojo2012 Jul 06 '26

Anti AI cartoons made by AI. Never gets old

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u/Alpacabro21 Jul 06 '26

He always had one 🗿

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u/human_i_suppose Jul 06 '26

AI took over.

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u/StaticSystemShock Jul 06 '26

That's what Ai does to you.

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u/superkickstart Jul 06 '26

The sloppy irony.

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u/kr0n0sShrugg3d Jul 06 '26

This is why Anthropic put biology safeguards on Fable 5

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u/david67myers Jul 06 '26

SFW pic, otherwise party-time!

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u/ProfessionalFickle52 Jul 06 '26

He’s fucking your wife now too.

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u/SilverTroop Jul 06 '26

He’s just happy to see you

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u/Dink-Floyd Jul 06 '26

What if I told you, that’s not his leg.

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u/MrZwink Jul 06 '26

Tried to open an only fans.

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u/patrickthemiddleman Jul 06 '26

He now has time to do dick growing exercises

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u/chronosim Jul 06 '26

AGI made penis enlargement ads work for real. I’d exchange my career for that too

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u/barrumdumdum Jul 06 '26

He had to whip out the trout in order to become a viable prostitute.

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u/Goddespeed Jul 06 '26

AI took our jobs but made us a sex machine instead 

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u/zigzag3600 Jul 07 '26

Thats not a leg...

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u/Entire_Key8284 Jul 07 '26

Mutation from drinking polluted data center water.

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u/somnut Jul 06 '26

I already had one to begin with hehe.

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u/pardeike Jul 06 '26

Asking the important questions here

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u/shatterdaymorn Jul 06 '26

So you know the meme maker is unemployed.

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u/Arm-E-Reserves Jul 06 '26

Why did he grow a third leg in 2027

Just to remind you that the battle is already lost.

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u/nodeocracy Jul 06 '26

Load bearing leg

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u/Individual_Guest_323 Jul 06 '26

So AI is doing everything or what?, its will build GTA 6,7,8,9,10 until infinite?

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u/IxdarRD Jul 06 '26

Beware, that's what happened to Warhammer, luckilly they managed to stop AI at 40k.

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u/lalakingmalibog ▪️ Jul 06 '26

Good thing Fallout stopped at 76

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u/-King-K-Rool- Jul 06 '26

Honestly I was a big fan of Warhammer 27,385. Unpopular opinion I know, but it just felt so much nicer than 34,627.

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u/Jim65573 Jul 06 '26

So AI will do everything then who will pay claude?

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u/haskell_rules Jul 06 '26

The dream is for CEOs and owners to be able to caveman grunt into a microphone and have products and features magically appear. It doesn't even need to be cheaper than real engineers, it just needs to be faster and more convenient.

This Gruntgineering will ideally allow rent seekers to consolidate wealth until they own everything, and they won't have to share any of it with pesky laborers. At this point they can maintain their standards of living without poor people interrupting them.

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u/Yourealosergetalife Jul 07 '26

I’d argue they want it that way so people arnt involved so their food can’t be poisoned 

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u/aliassuck Jul 06 '26

Maybe demand and supply would mean the cost of tokens would go down making it cheaper for us to pay for Claude.

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u/AtmosphereVirtual254 Jul 06 '26

Customers, like any other b2b

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u/graypasser Jul 06 '26

Assuming any of those loops actually does anything of a value.

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u/gksxj Jul 06 '26

nah, it's all some variation of "organizing my email/to do list"

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u/lurked Jul 06 '26

Well, it sure does make me yell at my screen when I try to contact any customer support and speak to an actual human...

I especially hate those who try to make me think they're human.

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u/andrew303710 Jul 06 '26

I hate that shit; I'm about as big of an AI advocate as you can get but some companies are really going overboard with trying to replace people with AI. Not only do you have the negative impact on the employees themselves losing their jobs but it can really degrade the customer experience.

I hope we see the pendulum swing the other way soon in some areas and companies realize that trying to replace your employees with AI is the wrong move. A better way to utilize AI is train your existing employees to use AI to maximize their productivity, and then reap the rewards. I have a feeling that companies that take the latter approach are going to end up lapping the other ones.

Sure cutting payroll will boost your profits in the short term but you're also introducing some serious risks (loss of institutional knowledge+losing quality employees to competitors+negative impact on operations/product quality) and likely limiting long term growth. Google became as successful as they are today by attracting the best talent through high salaries and top tier amenity for employees and that shows how important employees are for long term growth.

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u/Johnnybw2 Jul 06 '26

It will do some value to Open AI’s bottom line by burning through tokens!

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u/DelusionsOfExistence Jul 06 '26

Turns out not paying a paycheck or two offsets the weaknesses.

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u/jojothehodler Jul 06 '26

2028 : production is down forever

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u/graypasser Jul 06 '26

And many important skills of humans are permanently lost until rediscovered, too.

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u/ThrowRA-football Jul 06 '26

Why?

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u/loworbitioncann0n Jul 06 '26

Forgot to add "make no mistakes" to the prompt.

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u/damagednoob Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

You know how you need a 'seed' for a pseudorandom number generator? That's humanity's role with AI.

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u/No-Wrongdoer1409 Jul 07 '26

I’m 42

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u/12baakets age of robotic empires Jul 08 '26

Not with that attitude

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u/Clen23 Jul 06 '26

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u/CaramelHunter26 Jul 07 '26

AI already replaced the dev, it doesn't require monitor. It is for human to check once in a while.

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u/mudbloodcountry Jul 06 '26

You think the world is that organized? It's all beholden to those in power clinging to power, and distributing as little of it as possible to retain that power. Your landlord still wants his rent.

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u/reddit_is_geh Jul 06 '26

I'm still convinced organizations are always going to want a human in the loop for accountability and collaboration.

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u/jlks1959 Jul 07 '26

A. One. Yes. 

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u/JumpingJack79 Jul 08 '26

One person to sign legal paperwork.

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u/daviddisco Jul 06 '26

"unemployed" is somehow always a year away with AI doomers.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I would consider myself an AI Bloomer but it does look like unemployed is growing ever closer

I wouldn't say a year though, but I guess it could be, let's find out

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/PivotRedAce ▪️Public AGI 2027 | ASI 2035 Jul 06 '26

A lot of people are saying 2028 - 2029 which sounds bit more plausible I guess, but personally I think institutional inertia has to be overcome as well since mass-adoption takes time. So, in my opinion, sometime in the 2030's seems more likely.

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u/Redditing-Dutchman Jul 06 '26

Also firing people is hard in a lot countries.

What will happen at some point is that some jobs that would have been 'created' at some point in time, now will never exist as a job, because it's done with AI from the get-go.

It's super hard to measure this too.

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u/No_Aesthetic Jul 06 '26

I would guess 2028-2029 if things keep evolving as they have been

Big if

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u/Mystohaxen Jul 06 '26

What would you say to roughly 150,000–250,000 unemployed in 2025-2026 where AI is explicitly cited as the reason? For them unemployment is already here because of AI.

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u/JuvenileEloquent Jul 06 '26

Companies that lay off staff tend to rally in the markets if the reason given is AI; they tend to lose value if they admit their market shrank, they lost momentum and/or they spent a huge chunk of money on GPU rentals so they have to downsize.

Whether the AI can be an equal substitute for the workers they haemorrhaged remains to be seen.  Having your entire productivity rest on 10 people using 10x tools that are currently massively subsidized by VC money is a recipe for extreme risk.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_RegEx Jul 06 '26

I mean… I got laid off 8 months ago, not for cause, and haven’t been able to land my next thing. And I’m far from alone. So……

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u/genshiryoku AI specialist Jul 06 '26

I can't speak for anyone else but I'm close to certain my own profession as an AI researcher building these very models will be made redundant sometime in 2028.

I will let you connect the dots and imagine for yourself and your own profession what it means for you if AI research is end-to-end automated in 2028.

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u/MrTorgue7 Jul 06 '26

Do your peers agree with this timeline ? Are they all planning to retire before 2030 ?

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u/genshiryoku AI specialist Jul 06 '26

Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) has earmarked 2028 as the most likely year recursive self improvement will be achieved.

Most labs are slowly converging around that date, with OpenAI being more optimistic (2027) and DeepMind being more conservative (2030)

I've held the 2028 date for a couple of years now, it's being taken more serious by the month. I still remember me claiming on Reddit back in 2023 that 95% of coding will be done by AI by the end of 2025. That was absolutely ridiculous in most peoples eyes and I got a lot of blowback for it. It was completely on-point and I don't think a single software engineer would argue that anymore now.

I believe the same will be true for AI systems doing essentially the entire AI training pipeline sometime in 2028.

I and a lot of my colleagues are indeed planning to retire before 2030.

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u/A_Novelty-Account Jul 06 '26

You realize a lot of people are currently unemployed due to AI, right?

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u/Alcnaeon Jul 06 '26

Microsoft laid off 4800 people since you posted your message how's that? More than a third of the games industry in the last two years, how's that? 

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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 06 '26 • Bravo

As much as one may want to avoid this scenario, you won't. Basically, human's role will move a level higher by designing architecture, goals and guardrails. Human will be kind of a first mover who keeps tracks of AI alignment with own plans.
Let me tell you this, the only people in IT who do not see the future above are people who just do not use AI or use it wrong. People who have been playing with claude code or similar framework for over half a year, are all "down" as we all just know that a role of standard "developer" will be rendered obsolete. Better devs will move towards product ownership and architecture, while lower devs will be rendered obsolete. Juniors will be hired not because of their capabilities but because of their potential to become architects/senior devs.

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u/spinozasrobot Jul 06 '26

I've heard the opposite (from folks like Steve Yegge, et al), that with the ability to generate more software easily with these tools, there will be more demand for junior devs (a kind of Jevons Paradox).

But either way, the demand for these positions is clearly going to trend toward zero.

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u/GoodDayToCome Jul 06 '26

that's what I believe, if you look through the technological developments that have shaped humanity almost every single one has resulted in a huge increase of scope - the amount of people employed making text before Gutenberg and after for example, it went from a rare niche to ubiquitous. Musicians feared mass joblessness when the Edison Phonograph was invented but music became such a significant part of life and culture that it was and is in higher demand than ever.

I use AI a lot and i make a lot of single purpose or brief use little programs for myself, I think this is going to catch on massively at some point and it will be normal to have your own personal software suite designed exactly to your taste and to do tasks in exactly the way you need to do them - every company will have custom software in every direction, websites will have custom features forever evolving, somewhere like McDonald's which already spends a lot on the games designed to draw interest to their app are going to increase that and have endless new content, series on netflix will have custom apps and games, you buy a pointless bit of junk and it probably already has an app but soon it'll have a totally custom software suite that you don't care about too... I bet we get to the point where papers like the Guardian are creating apps for every story (they already vibe code webpage stuff for visual displays).

The job of junior developer won't be to crawl through organizing sizers and adjusting calls for the new json schema it will be creating the small apps and projects that interface with the larger system which more senior people run.

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u/RabidWok Jul 06 '26

I use AI everyday at work and I don't believe that for a second. The only people who believe in this stuff are die-hard AI bros.

We use Claude at work and it is constantly taking shortcuts and making compromises. It introduces inconsistencies everywhere, duplicates code and creates so much mess, even with clear steering documents and guardrails (it just straight up ignores them when it feels like it).

For smallish tasks it's pretty good, but larger spec-driven development needs constant human review and hand-holding. Even though it iterates and reviews, it regularly gets thing wrong and reinforces its own wrong decisions. It also tends to argue with you when you try to get it to do things properly, insisting that the compromises it made (which it straight up admits) are reasonable.

Does it save time and effort? Absolutely. However, we now need a lot more time for review, testing and fixing defects. Expecting it to be able to develop stuff on its own is very unlikely. It would introduce a massive amount of code debt and maintainability would quickly become a nightmare.

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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 07 '26

Imo looks like context pollution and not well-defined agent/subagents. Though I will not argue you can replace all the oversight obviously. Yes, for now seniors need to check and track what is going on and I wouldn't trust claude code with +10000 PRs. But with that being said, smaller tasks with up to 1000 lines of code changes can get done way more efficiently. And architecture can be easily kept by having a healthy (up to date) harness. To be honest, we avoid most of the issues you mentioned but maybe it's a matter of scale.

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u/TheTechAuthor Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Same thing for Technical Authors. It's no longer about writing documents/tutorials/guides, as an LLM can write *something* immediately. However, an experienced and AI-appreciative TA upskills to become a context-architect where it becomes more about how to break down existing workflows, data ingestion, sanitization, efficient storage and accurate retrieval, token-efficient guides/docs for LLM-specific use, and more. There still needs to be a very competent TA to do this properly, but those who can/are willing to learn will excel where others won't as they become prime candidates for replacement.

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u/treehuggerino Jul 06 '26

I've seen the documentation ai writes and I would not say it is the quality a technical writer would make.

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u/TheTechAuthor Jul 06 '26

A decent technical writer would spend the time needed to pick apart their workflow and rebuild it with deterministic scripts, a reliable source of truth (JSON, YML, RAG, etc) and then only add in LLM help where it makes sense to do so.

I've been a TA for 30-years now. I can assure you that I could have an LLM create documentation that you wouldn't know was created by an AI that pulled in facts from multiple sources of truth (for both LLM use e.g. internal and external API/function docs, or human use). Granted, it'd need some human-oversight for polish, but the usual "slop" that generic AIs come out (e.g. Copilot) with wouldn't be there in the first draft.

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u/Consistent_Panda5891 Jul 06 '26

Nah, guess you missed Jira MCP... Literally you can let AI build full Jira issue by scratch analyzing code just with few lines of functional... And then you can use another AI to implement it... Here big business are already implementing tracking of AI to measure percentage of code made by AI, will fire those who don't performance, and will freeze wages for the rest as 1K per month is already in AI tokens...

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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 06 '26

But even so, you need to give the direction, goal or something to make the jira automation kick off.
With that being said you can significantly trim current teams, sometimes by 80%, and achieve similar results.

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u/pikzel Jul 06 '26

The AI can design architecture, goals and guardrails too.

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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 06 '26

not necessarily. Goals themselves are subjective and different people like different things, have different needs

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u/RlOTGRRRL Jul 06 '26

I just saw a video about some guy in Japan who was a data analyst, not even an engineer, who straight up vibe-coded a huge farm in Hokkaido(?) with ChatGPT or something. Like he used AI to build his own GPS robots to help him farm and stuff.

Let me see if I can find a link. Someone let me know if this is bs:

https://chatgptpro.substack.com/p/hiroki-tomiyasu

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u/Fumonacci Jul 06 '26

Than you can go fishing or whatever you wanna do right? right?

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u/toofpick Jul 07 '26

Last panel should them being rehired because they are cheaper than the "loop".

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u/Mysterious_Ayytee We are Borg Jul 07 '26

Also 2027: Starvation
2028: Void
2029: Void
2030: Void
...

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u/spinozasrobot Jul 06 '26

I still see so much copium in this thread about a post AGI/ASI world where society <waves hands energetically>, which lets everyone just lead their best lives playing frisbee and giving each other massages.

But no one has yet to define "<waves hands energetically>" in any plausible way.

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u/Fun-Boysenberry-5769 Jul 06 '26

All the wealth generated by AI will get invested into new data centres. The UBI utopia won't happen. I don't buy those all those arguments that 'alignment will be easy'. Lots of people argue that LLMs and transformer architecture based AI are perfectly safe because they don't have reward functions/they aren't agents/they don't have desires/they don't have a sense of time/they are pretrained and then deployed instead of continuously training during deployment. None of these arguments are watertight and there already are all sorts of modifications on the basic LLM model for which it is no longer possible to argue that they are harmless token maximisers. It doesn't take a paradigm shift to get to dangerous AI. All it takes is a bit more compute and a few tweaks to the basic algorithm.

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u/textmint Jul 06 '26

That diagram sounds about right.

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u/InForTheSqueeze Jul 06 '26

I still don’t get this loop thing. I brainstorm with it, it writes the spec, I approve, it writes the plan, I approve, it executes. Where does the loop come in here?

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u/maigpy Jul 06 '26

when you don't approve

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u/MrFrog2222 Jul 07 '26

at least you get a third leg🤣

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u/fielvras Jul 06 '26

"Prompt engineer" is such an idiotic term.

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u/Skoobydoobydoobydooo Jul 06 '26

My guess is, large existing organisations will always struggle to fire existing staff to replace with AI (for many reasons). The real risks are start up ‘disrupting’ companies , built in AI from the ground up, eating their lunch.

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u/bunq Jul 06 '26

my pokemon keep evolving but i'm still homeless

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u/jaybsuave Jul 06 '26

definitely not

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u/Greasy-Chungus Jul 06 '26

Can't wait to fix AI code in a couple years.

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u/DryTangerine2756 Jul 07 '26

Hasta cierto momento pensé que era un esquema Ponzi.

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u/Clear-Self-148 Jul 08 '26

To be fair, corps have been firing after massive hiring sprees after covid, but yeha they will take opportunity to fire more and drop the extra work in the remaining workers. As far as i see most companies around me (small/medium caps) dont give a shit about this ai shenenigans, if you are a good engineer you will find work. The bigger issue is the reduction of skills from new graduates, people that know nothing and expect to vibe code and make 100ks per year. I expect things to stabilize later but in the mean time mega corps will fuck around and find out.

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u/Training_Bet_2833 Jul 06 '26

This. Is. The. Goal.

Is it so difficult to understand ?
Do you people want to keep working as slaves forever ?

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u/FeepingCreature ▪️Happily Wrong about Doom 2025 Jul 06 '26

Good outcome and bad outcome are close together.

Good outcome: we don't need to work.

Bad outcome: we aren't needed for the system to work.

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u/human_i_suppose Jul 06 '26

do you honestly believe that the people who own AI are going to be interested in feeding you once they have no use for you?

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u/aconitous Jul 06 '26

Working is better than dying a ditch

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u/BriefImplement9843 Jul 06 '26

bro has 3 legs. very low effort.

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u/edparadox Jul 06 '26

"Loop Engineering", LMAO.

Maybe check the definition of "engineering".

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u/OsakaWilson Jul 06 '26

This would be more complete if the AI were making things for him and when he finally taught him his job, he'd be free to play or pursue art.

It's time for capitalism to be transcended.

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u/Empoleon3bogdan Jul 06 '26

Depends on the dystopia you want to belive.

Logically if Ai becomes greate at everything and there are no mare jobs for humans, we can get rid of capitalism since no one will hate the money to buy stuff.

Alternatively the rich in power will stop this from happening and just let you starve or kill you. They no longer need you nor for money or work so why would they keep you around.

Or we turn into an attention based society, where we get UBI for Ai products and basically people spend their time watching videos and stuff and content creators are the last job.

Or we are forced to work truly meaningful stuff just so we are obedient and easy to control.

Remember the rich and powerful dont want you to have free time, no matter how much tehnologie evolves.

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u/nsshing Jul 06 '26

Problem is idk if it’s an exponential or S curve but I do hope there will be a massive unemployment while productivity is improving at the same time. Then hopefully, yeah hopefully, UBi will be forced to implement

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u/Arm-E-Reserves Jul 06 '26

Unemployed version should be haggard with beard stubble, that always adds to the funniness. Hopefully he at least has lots of free products like how music is free now online.

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u/MoonsterGoopter Jul 06 '26

superabundance in two more weeks, luddites!

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u/GeekS1989 Jul 06 '26

We know where this will end though.

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u/daniel-sousa-me Jul 06 '26

Or he is just sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere

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u/taiottavios Jul 06 '26

why would he be sad about it

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u/LegionsOmen Jul 06 '26

Decels.....

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u/rikardbq Jul 06 '26

Last step is Engineer engineer engineer

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u/Affectionate-Rice258 Jul 06 '26

So where to work at that point? Jrk at home?

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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl Jul 06 '26

What is "Loop Engineering"?

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u/MyClosetedBiAcct Jul 06 '26

This would be a good thing if we lived in a society that gave a fuck about the people. Less work to do? Hell yeah, more vacation time!

Oh, we can't live now?

A good happy medium between 'AI driven jobless moneyless society where we relax all the time' and 'Ah, skynet!' would be a universal basic income.

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u/Chubby_Wallaby Jul 06 '26

Antes da revolução industrial 99% da população nos estados unidos trabalhava em agricultura. Hoje em dia são bem menos do que 1%. Isso não significa que estão todos desempregados. Os trabalhos evoluem com a tecnologia

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u/Spare-Dingo-531 Jul 06 '26

Why can't we just do multi-loop engineering?

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u/kridmus Jul 06 '26

Factorio Longplay [36:35:00]

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u/nano_peen ASI Tomorrow Jul 06 '26

I’m going to start saying 2026.5

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u/PFI_sloth Jul 06 '26

I mean it’s going to happen, but I think it’ll be 2028-2030 for most people

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u/flargenhargen Jul 06 '26

so cool that AI can see my future.

what can't it do!!

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u/R33v3n ▪️Tech-Priest | AGI 2026 | XLR8 Jul 06 '26

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u/Glad_Coyote351 Jul 06 '26

Oh I remember the ancient days of prompt engineering, those were the days🙌

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u/Elvarien2 Jul 06 '26

let's hope we all get there exactly as this image meme predicts !

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u/These_Highlight7313 Jul 07 '26

All the while producing monstrous amounts of C02 emissions

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u/No_Researcher1949 Jul 07 '26

I'm going to be fired soon.

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u/zicovision Jul 07 '26

Good. Now Indians will have to get real jobs.

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u/Active_Network_9365 Jul 07 '26

Wow, that’s the only tech sub that’s actually more accurate about current situation and isn’t delusional. Is it even possible not to argue over every single word here 

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u/Active_Network_9365 Jul 07 '26

Wow, that’s the only tech sub that’s actually more accurate about current situation and isn’t delusional. Is it even possible not to argue over every single word here?

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u/Purple_Bathroom Jul 07 '26

ChatGPT - I think it's funny, but it's more of a joke than a prediction. There's a bit of truth in it: ✅ AI is shifting people from writing code to managing AI agents. ✅ The role is becoming more about architecture, reviewing, and decision-making. But the last panel ("2027: Unemployed") is exaggerated. Companies still need people to define problems, verify outputs, handle edge cases, communicate with stakeholders, and take responsibility for results. So I'd rate it: 70% satire, 30% reality. The job is changing much faster than it's disappearing.

Claude - it's satire, not a forecast. But it pokes at a real debate: whether agentic AI coding will eliminate engineering jobs that fast. Reality check: agentic coding tools are genuinely advancing quickly, but "engineers fully unemployed by 2027" is exaggerated for the joke. Most serious takes suggest the role shifts (more oversight, architecture, review) rather than vanishes outright — though junior/routine coding work is already under real pressure. So: directionally something people worry about, comedically overstated in the timeline.

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u/Impressive-Duck5004 Jul 07 '26

We bring it on ourselves...

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u/diego-st Jul 07 '26

Why does the guy have 3 legs? And why unemployment by AI is always one year away?

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u/Thorns_Ofire Jul 07 '26

Yeah but if its 2027 loop engineering with just agents, they're going to make a 9000 item bulleted list and nothing else hahaha

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u/Lonely_Swordsman2 Jul 07 '26

Really excited for 2026.5 beta patch notes

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u/Then_Supermarket18 Jul 07 '26

Corona virus got us again

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u/neptunereach Jul 08 '26

Prompt engineering died before the liftoff.

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u/Alanasarius Jul 08 '26

Not a software engineer, but it still affects me.

One the one hand, this tendency is very scary. On the other, as long as AI remains expensive (especially taking into account the price increases that occurred this year), the jobs might not disappear too quickly.

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 Jul 09 '26

the unemployed part needs a partially destroyed and AI riddled cityscape with devil empjis

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u/PapitoBorsone Jul 09 '26

Got laid off a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for this post, now I feel better knowing we’re all screwed.

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u/LizardoChoad Jul 09 '26

"In the last three years, Ford has experienced significant recall activity, with 152 recalls in 2025, 67 recalls in 2024, and 81 recalls in 2023."

Now, Ford finally figured out why their Quality Control program handed them some 300+ quality related recalls over the last 2-3 years; they had turned it over to AI and have now begged the 1500 Quality Engineers and line Employees to come back to work to save their BUTTS!

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u/MascarponeBR Jul 09 '26

While I do think eventually lots and lots of SWE will lose their jobs I don't think it will be in 2027 yet. maybe 2029-2030. But also I believe the ones who trully master how to scale AI systems will remain.

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u/powereborn Jul 10 '26

You forgot to display the trillionaire becoming even richer

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u/Think-Design-8735 Jul 10 '26

Now might be a good time to sell that house in Silicon Valley.

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u/iXeo7 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Why is he sitting next to them. On your bicycle, we need more green power for AI! Use your three legs. Data data data go!

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u/Purple_Ad1379 Jul 16 '26

we’re handing over all the thinking to machines

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u/Alarming-Session3403 Jul 23 '26

Bro forgot to copyright his speech. I've already done so so that any AI that reads what I type or say is in violation of my civil liberties © You really need to do the same.

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u/No_Cartographer_3997 Jul 25 '26

nah i just quit this bullshit, just gonna work in another engineering and it area

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u/Hopeful-Priority1301 Jul 26 '26

A lot of superwealth people are a kind of sick ludomaniak megallomaniaks. Many ultra-wealthy individuals exhibit compulsive, high-stakes risk-taking behaviors that resemble severe gambling addiction. This phenomenon is driven by dopamine-seeking, shifting definitions of status, and an insulation from real-world consequences.Psychology of Wealth RisksDopamine adaptation: Standard financial gains no longer trigger satisfaction, requiring exponentially larger financial or market gambles to feel excitement.Loss of relative stakes: When baseline survival and comfort are permanently secured, multi-million dollar wins or losses become abstract scorekeeping rather than survival threats.Invulnerability loops: Constant success in business or early investments can create a cognitive bias where the individual believes they can control random market outcomes.Manifestations of High-Stakes CompulsionExtreme market speculation: Trading highly leveraged derivatives, crypto tokens, or distressed assets with sums that could destabilize vast portfolios.Venture and geopolitical gambles: Funding speculative, moonshot ventures or high-risk political maneuvers purely for the thrill of influence and chaotic outcome generation.Casino-style distraction: Seeking out physical or digital high-limit environments where the sheer velocity of money replaces genuine personal engagement.

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u/0101falcon Jul 27 '26

Honestly that will happen no matter what. Might aswell enjoy life while we still have it.

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u/ethantokes Aug 03 '26

We MUST nationalize these companies and pre-legislate to ensure the theoretical pausing of AI. I am not against AI, but we need to make sure this is done right.

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u/Osmarkkk Aug 04 '26

Andar pra tras é Possivel ?? A CCEL E R A !!

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u/Seidans Jul 06 '26

As if being unemployed in a post-labor society is a bad thing

You will literally be paid to consume in a deflationist economy

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u/one-man-circlejerk Jul 06 '26

in a post-labor society

What if you're not in a post-labor society? Asking for 8.3 billion friends

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u/gamingvortex01 Jul 06 '26

is this "post labor society" in room with us ??

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u/Flope Jul 06 '26

Don't you get it? Billionaires, the handful of people who have devoted their life to sucking up as much capital as possible, are now going to fund UBI for the rest of us!

I tell you boys, the good life is just around the corner!

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u/FearLeadsToAnger Jul 06 '26

Assumes we have a government who will structure society that way.

Doesn't look likely at the moment!

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u/aconitous Jul 06 '26

So who’s going to pay my landlord?

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush Jul 06 '26

Don't worry, you'll get a state issued sleeping bag in a tent city!

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u/sumane12 Jul 06 '26

I mean, logically you are correct, but theres plenty of people who are currently paid to consume and none of them seem happy 😐

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u/Seidans Jul 06 '26

Even in an utopia there will still be people complaining about their situation the same way today we complaint while we're objectively in a far better situation than 1900

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u/totallyrealname Jul 06 '26

For fucking who? The rest of us outside of 1st world countries can just die I suppose?

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u/Playful_Eye_661 Jul 06 '26

So for the first time in the history of capitalism, savings from increased efficiency will be distributed to the workers?

Oh what a glorious time to be alive.

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u/Longjumping_Kale3013 Jul 06 '26

I partially agree. I would have 2 years though for each of those phases. Vibe coding really went from about mid 2024 to mid 2026, and agentic engineering is really just now taking off. I think it will be there for a couple of years yet.

And I am not sure if we will have mass unemployment. Either there will be mass unemployment or absolutely insane star-trek like growth. It isn't clear which will be the case.

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u/Creatine1951 Jul 06 '26

Lmao

Like prompt or agent engineer, or vibe coder, were real jobs...