"Electricity wiped out the demand for goods like hand-cranked tools and gas lamps, but it ushered in a huge demand for electricians, power plant technicians, and assemblers of electrical household appliances. And of course, electricity had huge downstream effects."
"The invention of the transistor led to the demand for computers, eliminating many secretaries, human computers, slide rule manufacturers, and the like."
"For us developers, coding agents are getting more powerful every few months, and that pace is accelerating. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have released new large language models in the past week that are receiving rave reviews from developers. The race is on-who knows how soon the next iterations will appear."
Historical technological shifts such as electricity and the transistor eliminated demand for many existing goods and roles while creating new technical occupations. Electricity reduced markets for hand-cranked tools and gas lamps and drove demand for electricians, power plant technicians, and appliance assemblers, with wide downstream effects. The transistor enabled computers, displacing secretaries, human computers, and slide-rule manufacturers while spawning a new computing workforce. Current demand for artificial intelligence is vast and poised to profoundly reshape labor markets. Coding agents are rapidly improving, accelerating every few months, and recent model releases from OpenAI and Anthropic show developers enthusiastic about increasingly capable AI tools.
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