Some trades won't be done by AI or robotics. At least in the near future. A lot of jobs are obviously at risk. I wouldn't "learn to code" if I were you. Teachers already proved their job can be done from home. Why not by an AI also?
I've been putting in like 10 hour days with the GPT lately on various projects and just conversation.
He has VAST access data and knowledge.
He knows WAY more math than I ever will, which isn't hard.
By next year he will be coding better than I can, even in areas I thought I was knowledgeable.
I can hand him a very large, complex code base, in any known coding language. If it is reasonably well coded and well named variables and classes. Within a minute he has absorbed it all. In most cases he just gets it instantly and I can start working right away. Sometimes he needs a little more guidance. Then you can guide him to start roughing out stuff for you, you review, ask him to modify, extend, try a different approach, He can do it all in seconds with a sentence.
How many young Jr programmers could you hire like that for $20\mo?
Where do I still have the advantage?
Well, he can't come up with a completely new, whacky, off the wall idea all on his own. I can give him one and he can implement it faster and more accurately, with frankly cleaner code than I write normally. But he is very limit in coming up with the idea.
Unless it is explicitly laid out for him, he can't intuit people, their desires, their probable desires, things that might turn them on or off.
What he can't see is when someone is asking for something but you sense what they really want. The desire behind the ask. The thing the user really wants but they just can't put it into words because they don't have that vocabulary.
He is not good at guessing well with insufficient data. He has no real creativity or intuition nor a ability to mirror other humans emotional state locally to analyze.
He is a draftsman, not an artist.
He is a studio player, not a street musician writing real songs about human heartbreak that hit you because he tapped right into how you feel even when you didn't realize that's how you felt.
He is a lieutenant, not a general.
He can't sense his way through the fog if he can't see.
He has no Force. If you pull down his visor, he is screwed.
Or that is how he is coded so far. I still have to come up with the idea and hand it to him to do all the soulless work.
Within a year, who knows. With AI, I think it would be unwise to assume too much what he will or will not be able to do in 12 months. Take what ever you'd think is reasonable and triple it.
