Posted by planetjones 7/3/2025
The other part of that half that doesn't get wiped out will have more work while, at best, being paid the same.
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, all right.
TL;DR: We always have a choice. And as we often do, we're choosing capitalism.
What do you think technological advancement does?!?
It removes work.
Now, if you say that unlike for every other time there isn’t more opportunity created…I guess you have an interesting point.
But yeah — duh.
I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”
Automating, then, commoditizing, then centralizing has lead to a drastic reduction in food quality and a critically vulnerable food-supply chain.
We’ve started down a similar path where we do not know how to manufacture.
The logical conclusion isn’t just losing workers, but the science and understanding, due to short-term gains and inability to train the next generation.
There never where enough assembly programmers to create all the business and leisure software we have in assembly anyway.
There are quite a few left, but they do foundational work at CPU or other hardware companies or are building compilers and runtimes others use. In other words: you're not in the same circles.
I know quite a few. Turns out there’s still a lot of value in understanding how computers work.
They make enormous amounts of money reverse engineering binaries and developing exploits for sale, mostly to governments.
Inheritance?
True, but other CEOs often like to be dramatic and the center of attention, wanting to be seen as bold, cost cutting, and at the forefront of trends, whether or not they are accurate in anything they say.
I've been around long enough to see that boldness become a source of regret at times. If someone refers to AI slop, it's widely understood what's meant. Putting slop at the center of your company personnel strategy doesn't sound quite as appealing.
The quotes at the end of the article seem more thoughtful to me, more realistic and measured.