What does "take it seriously" mean? For me, taking it seriously means that I am trying to use it as multiplier to be better at my own job. Is there some better course of action you think we should be taking? I personally do not think it is going anywhere, so I figure I had better be the expert.

I think the question is, how fast can it get better? You could apply the same reasoning that you did to compilers, and some people probably lost their jobs, while others grew along with them. Compilers have been improving for a while. If AI grows as the same rate as compilers, I won't worry much. It's if/when it starts growing 10/100 times faster that things will get very serious.

Speaking about that, do you have any suggestions? I'm very early in my career, and have never experienced big transformations, huge layoff, large crisis. I guess one of the ways is regulation/unions/stuff like that, but I also don't know much about it. I'd be happy to hear how other people prepare themselves for possible industry disruption.

Any tool that is helpful to me is likely to eventually replace me?

And if I'm eventually replaced, so be it. I'll go do something else.

If there's nothing else to do I'll starve with the rest of the peasantry.

And remember, the last to starve will be the first to suffocate.

Every 10 years the software paradigms change so much that you practically have to start over. Some skills carry over, but many don't. LLMs will do the same thing - they will force us to change our approaches.

That's a great comment thank you.