When you think about it, there are no AI “agents”, no “swarms”, nothing “agentic” or “identic”. These are just the latest buzzwords for the same invention: the LLM chatbot.
Still, there is a lot of talk about AI replacing certain job categories, especially programmers.
Actually, there are only about 30M programmers worldwide (according to ChatGPT) or about 10M (according to Grok). That’s 0.004% of the population (per the ChatGPT figure). No other jobs except for teenage modeling are threatened, even though the AI guys say so. And not even the programmers’ jobs are really in danger… as software needs programmers to check and fix errors, and to deal with the real world.
Read the full post at Cryptopolitan.