Raw LLM Responses

The point I think most important here - and the one most people are ignoring - is that an AI smart enough to actually replace a software dev is smart enough to replace anyone. And if that is the case, then we are all effed. At the nuts and bolts level our economy is still based on the fundamentals of supply and demand. It still (mostly) works because even though we hollowed out our manufacturing sector and created a new class of indentured servants, we left enough people making enough money to sustain the demand for goods and services. An AI that could replace - actually replace - a software dev ends that because that same AI could replace not just software devs but also any other discipline with a similar cognitive load, plus *everything beneath that.* That ends our economy. Not just an economic sector; it ends it as a whole. I don’t think people understand this; the advent of an AI that can *truly* replace a human software dev is a civilization ending event; it sweeps all the pieces off the board.