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    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran on Tue Aug 5 14:40:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c++

    rCLA sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and white-collar jobsrCY

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-short-term-warning-about.html

    rCLBasically, any white-collar job (management, technical, administrative, whatever) is under threat.rCY

    rCLMo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Google X, has a stark message for white-collar professionals: Artificial intelligence isnrCOt
    just coming for entry-level work rCo itrCOs coming for everyone, including software developers, CEOs, and podcasters.rCY

    rCLIn a Monday conversation on the rCLDiary of a CEOrCY podcast, Gawdat predicted that most knowledge workers would be replaced in the next
    decade and said many still underestimated just how rapidly this
    transformation would unfold.rCY

    rCLHe cited his own startup, Emma.love, which builds emotional and relationship-focused artificial intelligence and is run by just three people.rCY

    rCLrCYThat startup would have been 350 developers in the past,rCY he said.rCY

    I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
    IrCOve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging around
    the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

    Lynn

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  • From Thomas Koenig@tkoenig@netcologne.de to comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran on Tue Aug 5 20:14:23 2025
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    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:

    I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
    IrCOve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging around the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

    There was a recent study that using AI made developers who know
    what they are doing slower, although they thought they were faster.
    Also, my general observation (so far, at least) is that LLM-based
    AIs are pretty useless for any work for which requires precision
    (and, almost invariably, intuition) in engineering fields.
    Maybe next year, maybe in five years, maybe never.
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran on Wed Aug 6 01:48:58 2025
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    In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    rCLA sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and white-collar jobsrCY

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-short-term-warning-about.html

    <snip>

    I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.
    IrCOve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging
    around the place. I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.

    I agree with this, & do not forget COBOL :) Github's
    CEO came out with something similar as what Bayou said
    yesterday I think. Remember, almost all CEOs moved up
    through marketing or finance. They have do idea what
    development is.

    I think these CEOs are in a dreamworld about AI. I have
    been programming for multiple decades and have seen many
    iterations of that dream. All it did was create more jobs
    for developers and raised their pay. I expect nothing
    different from AI.


    Lynn

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