In the threads, most comments dismiss the value of creators' works in building the billion-dollar businesses developing these increasingly-powerful content laundering machines, based almost exclusively on content theft.
Simultaneously, we're 10 years away from a world where staff "software engineers" go the way of human computers¹, replaced by product and marketing folks and maybe a system architect.
To those commenters, I say: I hope y'all have a Plan B.
>Simultaneously, we're 10 years away from a world where staff "software engineers" go the way of human computers¹
Where's the source that this is going to happen?
Software engineering will change but it will not be gone. Those who learn how to use these tools will become more valuable than those who don't. Same with every profession.
There's a key difference between writing for the screen and writing for software - making software engineers more efficient makes software cheaper will raise its demand. This is similar to how there are more accountants now than pre- spreadsheets. But writers in TV and film are not the bottleneck, making them more efficient will not lead to more demand for entertainment. It's clearer to me that the latter camp are in serious trouble, whereas we may just need to adapt.
I do have a plan B. The software engineer, the marketing guy and the maybe system architect of 10 years in the future are all the same person: me using AI tools.
...software developers have adapted to the newest tools and started working at a higher level of abstraction, just as we have been doing over and over since the beginning of the art.
In the threads, most comments dismiss the value of creators' works in building the billion-dollar businesses developing these increasingly-powerful content laundering machines, based almost exclusively on content theft.
Simultaneously, we're 10 years away from a world where staff "software engineers" go the way of human computers¹, replaced by product and marketing folks and maybe a system architect.
To those commenters, I say: I hope y'all have a Plan B.
¹ https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa