GPT-3 makes irrelevant years worth of research in NLP, nobody's using the same approach as before 2020. That made many researchers and ML engineers hard earned skills obsolete. We have to start over from scratch now, this time is very different. We have clearly passed the knee of the curve for NLP. I remember about 2018 I was talking with my teammates about CV and NLP, saying that all the cool papers are in CV and NLP is 5 years behind. Look at it now.

If they really have a general AI that does everything then pretty much everyone will be in the same boat whose job involves pecking away at a computer.

Well the way I see it is we'll become like people who still play chess.

People still play chess, even though computers have conquered us in that domain.

Programming is still something we can spend time on. It's ultimately our choice after all.

The people who were doing it for money will move onto something else, and we'll be better off for it.

I've been doing frontend pretty heavily since 2012 so I have years of obsolete skills. jQuery ui, Backbone, Batmman.js, Ember, Knockout, Angular