Probably still a relatively small percentage of the total for them to care.

My understanding is that it's likely somewhere around 7.5% for men and women. Including bisexual people brings it closer to 10%. That's based on self-reporting, I think. I'm not sure how significant that would be in Meta's world.

Among men this would only be 3 or 4%. Probably not that significant given how coarse the strategy itself is.

> Even a pretty good UBI probably wouldn’t be enough to cushion the landing for people who make a lot right now and have made financial decisions (number of kids, purchasing a house, etc)

The UBI should take number of underage children into account.

If the house turned out to be too much they’d have to sell.

Why would demand go up?

Yes electricians are definitely safer than those of us who work in front of a computer all day, but I don’t think AI is good for them either. First of all, more young people might try to become one, potentially crowding the sector. Second, if the rest of us are poorer we’ll also spend less in housing and other things that require an electrician.

It's more about supply going down (fewer people going into trades), which eventually affects demand for that shrinking pool.

You need electricians for data centres, at the very least.

I expect data center electrical design to go modular and maintainable in a completely automated way.

To me the biggest difference is that there’s some place for high quality, beautiful and expensive handcrafted woodwork, even if it’s niche in a world where Ikea exists. Nobody will ever care whether some software was written by humans or a machine, as long as it works and works well.

^This. Even if there was a demand for hand-crafted software, it would be very hard to prove it was hand-crafted, but it's unlikely there could be a demand for the same reasons as there is no market for e.g. luxury software. As opposed to physical goods, software consumers care for the result, not how it was created.

I, for one, prefer to use software where the person who wrote it understands how it works.

In 5 years coding skills will matter as much as being able to operate an elevator. (sadly)

The difference is that the person who was a woodworker is no longer needed. Why can’t the customer just walk up to a kiosk and ask the machine to start building? The machine or another one specialized for QA can then assess if it fits all the technical requirements which the customer doesn’t necessarily understand. This is what most people here are worried about, eventually the professional human being will no longer be needed by businesses which can produce everything with neither customer nor business owner being in need of specialized knowledge which they previously needed to acquire by hiring professionals.

> LLM coding doesn't feel revolutionary or exciting like this.

Maybe you’re just older.

Older than whom?

Than your younger self that got all excited about the Internet.

Truer words were never spoken. You have imparted wisdom upon me today. :)

If that’s you’re best response, a snarky and unfunny comment that would make a GenZ guy blush, I’m not surprised you can’t fathom that age is a factor.

Sometimes it's not so much about learning to do things but learning to do things in a certain way.

VSCode is arguably one of the most if not the most popular code editor these days…

And they're pretty much the only example of an embedded browser architecture actually performing tolerably and integrating well with the native environment.

Vscode’s performance is pretty bad. It’s “tolerable” just like any electron app.