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What’s the point of blogging when AI can do a better job than the average blogger? Frankly, one can generate a huge volume of content that’s comparable with the one of the best bloggers. One just needs a set of well-suited prompts and a bit of formatting, though also the formatting can be handled over prompts. So, what’s the point of blogging anyway? Frankly, the more AI takes over, the less space is available for bloggers! Taking a trendy way of formulating titles: is blogging dead? I really hope not!
I’ve been blogging for almost 20 years. Even if I haven’t managed to blog constantly, given the volume of work and learning, I still made it over time! Often it was late in the night, in between other activities, or a bit of work while watching a football game. With AI life changes more than we want. AI can currently write about 20-30% of the code, at least the initial structure on which it can build upon, and it saves a lot of time!
So, the average programmer needs to adapt to the new reality or die?! Becoming unimportant in the programming equation is equivalent with a slow death we witness in our job. Of course, when used wisely AI can provide higher productivity, at least for the moment, though what will happen when the average programmer is not able to keep the pace? What will happen when we can’t review what AI does for us? Probably, we’ll be able to build a smarter AI which can evaluate the output of less smart AI, though what will be the limit?
Just playing the devil’s advocate, though what happens when the devil outsmarts us? Cases of programmers who lost their jobs because of AI become more frequent in the news. This is probably the new reality we need to be accustomed to. AI can write better code, better stories and probably can make faster discoveries than the average programmer, scientist, or any other professions in whose fields AI can be used.
Of course, we can learn to use AI to our advantage, though how many will be capable of doing that? Many programmers will lose their jobs because of AI. Probably, the ones who are still better problems solvers than AI will remain in the business, though until when?! The ones who change jobs early will probably be more adapted to the new paradigm, though at what price? Who will be able to pay the price?
In the first instance the programmers are the ones who’ll suffer, but the chances are high that AI will take over other jobs as well. The shift in teaching and other jobs could change from knowledge transmission to supervision, from creation or simple stand-byers. Does it make sense? Does it help us to live a decent life? Does it help us in the long term?
Probably, all the jobs that need a human touch will be still needed, though it’s challenging to predict how everything will evolve, in which directions, on what terms. The problem is not necessarily AI alone, but the way it is used and misused. Of course, the future doesn’t necessarily need to look that bleak, though the chances of evolving in this direction are high.
AI develops at a faster pace than the human mind can progress. Probably, we’ll be able to benefit from cognitive boosters, developed probably with the help of AI. To any gain is expected also a loss. In which areas should we expect losing something? Is it worth the price we pay for the sake of progress?
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