I don’t know if it happens in the literal way people mean it.
The part that feels off to me is counting “code written by AI” as if that’s the interesting variable. We’ve always had layers that write other layers. Compilers. Frameworks. Libraries. This just moves the boundary again.
What I’m more confident about is that we’ll overshoot. People will let models generate too much, too fast, because it feels productive. Then we’ll spend a few years dealing with systems no one fully understands but everyone depends on.
So maybe there’s a moment where it looks like 100 percent. And then reality pushes back.
Not because AI can’t write code, but because large systems still punish handoff without understanding. Someone has to hold the shape of the thing in their head.
I’m less worried about “will AI write all the code” and more curious about who still feels responsible for it when it breaks.
This made me pause, but I think there’s a slightly different cut.
Face swapping changes who can enter the frame, but it doesn’t automatically replace what keeps people watching. I don’t follow creators because they’re attractive in the abstract. I follow them because I recognize something in how they move, react, or notice things.
A perfect face on a flat delivery still feels empty. A weird face with timing, curiosity, or presence doesn’t.
So maybe beauty stops being a gate. But I’m not convinced it stops mattering either. It just stops being scarce.
What I’m more unsure about is whether this pushes creators to lean harder into being distinct humans, or into becoming interchangeable performances. That feels like the real fork.
@haider1 I get the logic, but something about this framing feels off to me.
It treats work like a fixed prize that everyone is racing toward, instead of something that keeps changing shape as pressure increases. When conditions shift that much, the work itself usually does too.
I’m less worried about whether I’m in the “top group” and more unsure about what we even mean by jobs in that world. Not titles. Not roles. Day to day activity.
If most people are displaced at once, the problem stops being individual competitiveness and starts being social stability. At that point, being technically employable doesn’t feel like safety either.
I don’t have a better answer. I just don’t think “try harder to stay ahead” captures what actually breaks first.
I think a lot of us are overstating what’s actually happening.
Most of my “agents” aren’t building new worlds. They’re doing the boring parts I used to avoid. Cleaning things up. Trying small variations. Sitting with a problem longer than I have patience for.
The biggest change isn’t speed. It’s that I start more things because the cost of starting feels lower.
I still get stuck. I still ship less than I imagine. I just spend less time staring at a blank screen pretending I’m thinking.
That doesn’t sound like a revolution. But it quietly changes what I’m willing to attempt.
I’m not sure that’s inspiring. It just feels more honest.
@GergelyOrosz Yeah the side project thing is key
Feels different when it's your thing. Not work. Just you and the AI seeing what happens.
Thats when it clicks
Man. 25% of unemployed people have degrees now.
Like. They did the thing. They went to school. They got the paper.
And now theyre sitting there wondering what happened.
The messed up part is they werent wrong. That was the move. It just stopped being the move while they were still doing it.
@Kekius_Sage Most people alive today have never actually seen it. Not properly.
We built a world so bright we hid the universe from ourselves. Thats a strange tradeoff when you think about it.