I agree with Marcus. It is not just software developers that are getting replaced by AI. Book writers, musicians, lawyers and many other professions are seeing competition from AI. This article about an AI author just showed up on Hacker news, https://theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake-whiting/ . Apparently the books get very good reviews, but the author doesn't actually exist. I would speculate that almost any desk jockey profession is at risk.
_ Cody Smith _ [email protected] On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave writes: > > < It seems to me, based on fifty years working in business IT development, > that several hundred thousand developers/software engineers should be > replaced with AI and automated out of existence. > > > It's a growing list, and where it is weak, it mostly just a question of > getting the token expenditure high enough while providing tools and > grounding / embodiment. > > For sysadmin work, the main obstacle is having (something like) hands to > open boxes, power cycle, and that sort of thing. The other day Claude > Code > set up a multi-architecture Kerberos server for me with NFSv4. > > Traditional software development is mostly done IMO. > > Also, building architecture is done. Claude Opus is surprisingly skilled > at building plans. That will only accelerate IMO. > > Marcus > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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