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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a computer scientist/software engineer. I use AI to write my code daily. It doesn't write itself though. You have to know how to craft a prompt and check its work. It types out what I know how to do and can tell it to do in a prompt, but you have to explain to it what to do. 
Software Engineers have been using copy/paste off of Stack Exchange for years. This speeds up that process and just prints out the code. 
Computer Science isn't going away. We still need new software engineers, maybe more. They need to learn how to craft prompts and use AI to help them program faster and more efficiently. 
It seems like the same people worrying about this are the people who thought all cashiers at McDonalds were going to be fired because a kiosk showed up. You either learn how to use technology to enhance and assist you in your career or you become a dinosaur. 
CS majors will be the ones who are learning in college what those of us in the field already are learning on the job.

We aren't all going to be obsolete. [/quote]

The entire clerical support staff was eliminated at my Federal Agency when we got rid of paper and all filings became electronic.

Jobs can become obsolete. [/quote]

Well yes…there are 95% fewer travel agents today vs pre-Internet.

You have to believe new jobs will be created from all the new technology.[/quote]

Sure. That’s the point. They won’t be in coding and it’s predicted liberal arts degrees will be way more valuable. [/quote]

Nobody is predicting that.  Nobody actually know how this will all play out.

Did you not see how AI as we speak is impacting creative fields, PR, etc.?

What jobs exactly will be hot for liberal arts majors (which includes Math, physics and other STEM BTW)?[/quote]

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