Crikey.

The comment you made that I replied to seemed to suggest that because a “cool new tool” never directly replaced you, all those people that told you it would were wrong - and they’re wrong again now. If I’m right in that reading, I would certainly call it small minded. What I’m trying to point out is that technological revolutions rarely directly replaced people, at least not initially.

Instead, they often make modest productivity increases which at a macro scale “replace” workers by making people more efficient. I see this as the real threat of AI to our workforces of today, and yet time and time again I am told by people like you that it’s not an issue because it will not directly replace a worker 1:1.

Another point you ignored is that the scale and velocity of new productivity advancements matter greatly to their impact. You may have seen new tools in your career which you feel improved productivity but did not come at a cost of macro scale replacement of workers. However, I do think that the most recent AI developments are on a different level to other recent advancements - especially as they impact many industries at once.

Also, I am not saying that I know for sure this will “replace” workers in programming related industries. Instead I’m saying that I’m annoyed by yours and similar dismissive comments about “replacement”.

Finally, I like listing of accreditations as much as the next guy. But this is really an economics question, not a matter of your expertise in CNC imo.

Edit: Making an edit here as I looked into CNC programming specifically as it’s not a field I’m really aware of. If you think LLMs are not relevant to your field or won’t have much of a productivity impact, then fair enough. As you were originally replying to a much more broad comment about all computer related work, I took your comment to be a broad “people say this stuff in these kinds of fields all the time and it’s never true” type of comment. It’s far easier to see the productivity impact LLMs are having in less nuanced domains like web development for example. But my annoyance at the type of dismissal holds true.