They just cut 4,000 workers because of AI. 40% of workforce. Who is going to buy stuff when no one has a job?

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15. I feel like this is gonna hit the white collar workers (like myself) more than anyone, especially programmers.

And that has been my profession for over 25 years now. Its my career. I borrowed money for the degree. I paid it all back. I'm 46 years old and starting over really isn't something that is an option unless we (my wife and myself) sell our house and move outside of the city we've lived in this entire time, which would put her at a disadvantage travelling to her job, which might get replaced with AI too, who knows.... she audits business loans . Her only saving grace the notion of introducing AI to sensitive banking data has a lot of legal hurdles.

I've seen what some of these AI tools can do for software development. I've had to study them and learn them. With all my experience, I know exactly how to use it to make it generate quality code under my own guidance. And its really good at figuring out bugs if you give it the right info. Its scary. Right now, it still needs human guidance and knowledge of whatever you are guiding it to do but there may come a day where that isn't the case.

We need to be cracking down on it somehow. The data centers and their environmental impact, the models that are trained on stolen data and any part of it that threatens our economic stability. There have to be regulations and there needs to be legal enforcement of copyright laws and there needs to be targeted taxes on certain models that are used do certain things that could blow a whole through our jobs economy.