No future for narrow software engineers or desk jobs
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“If as a human being the only thing you have to offer is a digital good, I think that’ll be worthless soon, much sooner than we’d think… I just don’t see a place for, say, a software engineer that identifies themselves as a front-end engineer or a backend engineer. I just don’t see people that are sitting at desk jobs clicking buttons — I just don’t see a future for them… I’m pessimistic in the short term and optimistic on the long term.” — 02:09:34
Context: He adds he was “pro AI expansionism” but now asks “what are we going to do with these people — the displacement is going to happen,” seeing it inside his own company.