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Replit CEO Amjad Masad says AGI won't replace you—unless you’re a code monkey. AGI is a remote worker. If you have one, you'll spin up 100 more to execute your ideas. But the person who understands what people want—who can dream, design, and ship—that role stays irreplaceable.

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vitrupo1 year ago

Amjad Masad on Sequoia Capital's Training Data:

The Rundown AI2 years ago

AI won't replace you, but a person using AI will. Join 500,000+ readers and learn how to use AI in just 5 minutes a day (for free).

Diego Aud1 year ago

In the short term, he's absolutely right. In the longer term (2030+?), as AIs' capabilities grow and expand, things might change: they could eventually become better than us at understanding human needs, desires, and wants.

Oliver1 year ago

then it isnt agi. truly tho. general intelligence is an explainer, which is what ai is not right now. we have to give it our creativity for it to work, agi does not have that problem and therefore doesn't "need" us per se

AI Review1 year ago

I guess we all have our own idea of what AGI is, but what he is describing to me is not it.

Melon Usk — e/utopian1 year ago

People invent mental pacifiers in order to run away from fear. The only way to stop the fear is to face it. Understand, solve and make it boring. An e/acc guy running away from here and now:

Ian1 year ago

I expect that the definition and expectations of what AGI is and what it does is going to shift dramatically the closer to achieving it that we get.

Cloud Ventures | Cloud Deals & FinOps ☁️1 year ago

So maybe the product manager role is safe after all? 😂

vitrupo1 year ago

Only the top PMs. What is the ‘code monkey’ version for a PM? 🙊

Devilmaycare1 year ago

I agree with this.

Jade Cole1 year ago

NONE OF THIS IS HAPPENING - this is all an online fantasy. These companies that all pretend AI writes code have tons of job openings for developers and engineers. When OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft all announce they are laying off all their devs, I will believe it.

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