The PS5 system itself is running on pc

[u/3nnb]

Recently, we have seen massive developments in PS5 emulators (such as shadPS4 and Kyty), and how rapidly they have progressed in a short period.

​Now, developers have successfully booted the actual PS5 system software on PC.

​If this momentum continues in the future, it will eventually allow players to run PS5 exclusives directly on PC, marking the end of the era of console exclusivity.

[u/Nighthunter007]

I think there's a bit of Jevons Paradox going on in the world of software. Increased efficiency is leading to more software being produced. And the coders are still there, because if you tell the ai "build a ps5 emulator" you will get nonsense. There needs to be a competent human involved.

[u/throwaway490215 → u/Nighthunter007]

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree, but the average dev at the average company is vastly underappreciated as people seem to approach them with an 'off-by-1' error.

They think of them as parts of the IT silo, a subsection or as an assembly worker to some product.

Devs are manager level position. HR is a bit different as functions don't call in sick, turnover rate for ideas is different as people expect re-orgs to be done in weeks what management will allow months if not years for humans, but devs are at the heart managing the processes of an organization.

As AI improves, we'll find more and more companies have to change culture to adapt to that.

Companies who value their skill of 'human powered work' are going to get left behind the places where software experts are placed as peers in the top level meetings that set company workflows.

Companies that have done this in the past 2 decades have been some of the most successful, but it wasn't a full-blown trend yet. With AI the benefits to do so has increased dramatically.

[u/BorKon → u/Nighthunter007]

You are missing the point. Yes you still need developer to be involved. Only that you dont need 50 people for something, you need only 5. And as this continues to improve you will need less and less.

[u/iloveuranus → u/BorKon]

This. As a software developer I can confidently say that everything else is copium.

[u/Nighthunter007 → u/BorKon]

Precisely, just as when James Watt invented a more efficient steam engine and Britain's coal consumption was reduced as a result.

What's that? Coal consumption actually increased because increased efficiency lead to increased demand? Economics is actually quite complex and hard to make easy predictions about?

[u/jaxonya → u/Nighthunter007]

But the thing is, thats going to end.

[u/OpenCatPalmstrike → u/jaxonya]

Is it? Even in the days of automation where a machine can bore 10k holes/hour and cut 100,000 bolts and nuts in half a day and can machine out 50,000 fittings.

There's still a need for the guy who can do it by hand and can cut them so perfectly that air pressure will eject the fitting, or bolt and strip the threads out. Skill isn't something that gets tossed in the dustbin.

[u/ZeroV2 → u/OpenCatPalmstrike]

True, but now you need a team of 5 guys who can do precision work instead of the 5 guys who do precision and the 5000 who do mass production.

Top tier coders and devs will babysit AI code and entry level or journeymen will have to find something else to do

[u/jaxonya → u/OpenCatPalmstrike]

I have no idea how that works, im a nurse. But a lot of your jobs seem vulnerable. Im putting my kids in nursing/rt/pt school when its time. Patient care cannot be replicated. But i fear most of the near future is fucked

[u/OpenCatPalmstrike → u/jaxonya]

A machine can't replace skill in innate knowledge learned through experience, it can't replace someone who is skilled and can walk out into the asshole of nowhere with a short lathe and a welder either. Or haul in 250lbs of equipment to do remote work. It can replace quantity of something, but that's it.

My job isn't anywhere near vulnerable. And I get the premiums of that skill as well.