if we were to look at this from a historical perspective, the conclusion we'd have to reach would be the latter. however, nobody in history has ever had the amount of information sharing and communication that we have now, and the spread of ideas is the most important factor in determining societal/cultural changes. the internet might save us from a world of poverty with a few hundred quadrillionaires.

"far cries" are getting much, much closer. i wouldn't get too comfortable with my beliefs about AI, we can't know how much it will be advanced in the near future.

how could you possibly say that? have you not been paying attention at all to technological development trends over the past decades? it's not slowing down, and while AI has had its hiccups, thinking that those hiccups are evidential of incapability is extremely closed-minded.

AI will probably be more of a threat to the job more quickly than a flooded labor market. as soon as we get AI smart enough to write code that just needs a very basic input, which is coming extremely fucking quickly, yes, programming will become near obsolete. along with countless other professions.

Academia and government doesn't keep up with the industry and some corps hate converting to anything different.

but they do when they have to, and java is well into being on its way out.

this advice is like telling someone in the early 20th century to learn how to make horseshoes

(heck, I'd argue that compared to a lot of the community, I'm pretty dim)

you don't fucking say