I agree there's too much cope going around. All the people saying AI is just a tool to augment our jobs are correct, humans are still needed but perhaps far less of them will be needed. If job openings shrink by 50% or disproportionately impact juniors it will hurt.
One decent reason to continue is that pretty much all white collar professions will be impacted by this. I think it's a big enough number that the powers that be will have to roll it out slowly, figure out UBI or something because if all of us are thrown into unemployment in a short time there will be riots. Like on a scale of all the jobs that AI can replace, there are many jobs that are easier to replace than software so its comparatively still a better option than most. But overall I'm getting progressively more worried as well.
One decent reason to continue is that pretty much all white collar professions will be impacted by this. I think it's a big enough number that the powers that be will have to roll it out slowly, figure out UBI or something because if all of us are thrown into unemployment in a short time there will be riots. Like on a scale of all the jobs that AI can replace, there are many jobs that are easier to replace than software so its comparatively still a better option than most. But overall I'm getting progressively more worried as well.