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Programers are going to be replaced by AI in the same way accountants got replaced by VisiCalc and engineers by CAD and mathematicians by calculators and software like Mathematica


You mean the part where you only need 5 people doing the job instead of 50?


That’s not “replacing” programmers. More like increasing their productivity


And yet there are more engineers and accountants employed than ever.


And yet not keeping pace with the overall population increase of America. There’s also more companies than ever before.


> mathematicians by calculators

Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers (as an occupation). To the point that most people don't even know it used to be a job for people.

I say calculators but there is a blurry line between early electronic computers and calculators. Portable electronic calculators also replaced the slide rule, around the late 1970s, which had been the instrument of choice for engineers for around 350 years!


> Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers

Imho you are underestimating the work of programmers if you compare them to “Computers”


I didn't mention programmers at all in my comment.

In fact the first programmers were mainly women because they came from a Computer background.




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