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There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching.
That's not the kind of experience companies look for though. Do you have a degree? How much time have you spent working for other companies? That's all that matters to them.
It's the front-end of the hype cycle. The tech-debt problems will come home to roost in a year or two.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
The production of works that use AI will drop, while the cost to produce higher quality works - works that don't use AI - will remain the same. All we'll get is more AI slop.
We aren't in the Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism stage just yet, so labor is a necessary evil.
If AI can learn "better and faster" than humans, then why didn't AI companies just pay for a couple of books to train their AIs on, just like people do?
Maybe because AI is ultimately nothing but a complicated compression algorithm, and people should really, really stop anthropomorphizing it.