The reality is this all the standard lump of labor fallacy. I am not a software engineer but it is obvious to me at some point I will be using claude code or whatever to automate tasks. I won't be taking software engineering jobs, I will be using code to do what is done manually today that you wouldn't bother paying a software engineer to handle.

Today's software engineers will just be higher up the stack from me the same way they are today.

In 20 years, many of us will be working in sectors of the economy that don't exist today.

The idea we get something as powerful as AI and it doesn't create new businesses and sectors is just stupid.

Imagine telling someone in 1997 they are going to be getting deliveries from Amazon all the time in the mail. What kind of idiot would believe this? I don't even read that many books!