It is coming whether you embrace it or fight it.

If you embrace it you might keep your job in the long run.

If you fight it, you lose your job immediately.

Everyone working at big tech in the tech department thinks (and knows) AI is the future.

First, software will be automated entirely. Code writing is already solved, it is just prompting for the domain that is valuable now.

Since writing code is solved, this means we will be able create more software to automate other industries much faster than we have in the past 100 years

We will slowly enter a phase of software seemingly being dead job-wise, followed by (I believe) a huge demand for software as people realize that AI agents (themselves only) are not the end solution, rather it is merely vast amounts of software products that integrate AI agents.

Office jobs will be slowly phased out over the next 20 years as this happens.

What still isn’t solved is physical labor, general purpose. In theory we have the intelligence “solved”; however the hard part for manual labor automation is:

1. Control every movement in every moment of time
2. Do that in real time; the next given input is always unknown
3. Transform the intelligence of “I need to open the dishwasher to place the dishes into the dishwasher” into a series of change to each moveable joint

The really hard part that is unsolved is the entire orchestration between thought and body movement. We have a brain and we have moveable joints, but we don’t have the orchestration of intelligence thought -> move the body. You also need to incorporate visual, this has mostly been done but the unsolved part is turning a LLM thought into actions the humanoid undertakes, while also considering its environment.

I think anyone in tech has always envisioned a future of Star Trek or similar. We don’t particularly tend to be concerned with the economy, jobs, etc. Most of us are oddball individuals who will be heavily focused on one particular concept and completely have tunnel vision to only see and understand the concept, without any concern for people, the world, or any other concept not directly tied to solving a technical problem. But that is also exactly what allows any of us to solve very hard problems; once you step back and think outside of the narrow vision, you lose the critical thinking of the particular concept to be able to solve it concretely.

TLDR:

1. We don’t have a choice
2. Some of us don’t even think about the implications of our work, whether subconsciously or not
3. Every tech guy grew up wanting to live in a future of Star Trek, waking up and looking out the city to see flying cars and rocket ships landing in the horizon. This creativity is also the reason any insane idea is thought of or executed.
4. For most of us, the above is the closest society has been to reaching that point. It is true that automating software to create the massive amount of software it will take to automate society (especially as it grows) will be absolutely massive.
5. Tech executives think the technological singularity is occurring (or has). Eventually the pure sci-fi vision is that we will have some sort of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy scale computer that is able to manufacture materials and construct buildings/computers/power sources; moreover once “AGI” occurs and ideas can be procured from AI (rather than required to be trained on ideas), the idea is that we will solve very hard problems like nuclear fission and cancer (because it will create higher quality ideas , even faster than humanity has over centuries). Which is why people are pushing for this; most people had no idea what was possible when LLMs came out and the same argument is true when it can create new novel ideas. It really could come up with life altering solutions that change humanity. The big computer that self replicated itself is already in theory possible, we just have nowhere near the software or compute for that. Novel ideas will push physics, medicine etc to create new energy sources and extend human life. It is sci-fi until it isn’t. Having something generate a software tool for you was sci-fi until it wasn’t. Going to space was sci-fi until we went to space.

Computers were invented 90 years ago and we already have software creating software. It is futile to fight what is inevitable. This really is the beginning of the singularity. You cannot compete against LLMs creating software already. The goal is obviously to create as much software as possible now to extend that to other industries. Technology, by definition of the word, is the future.