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Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs
AI tools cost a fraction of human labor—and may undermine the jobs needed to build careers.
(GitHub chief operating officer Kyle Daigle tells WIRED that the company’s goal is to support, not replace, developers and that “pricing reflects a commitment to democratizing access to powerful tools.”) For instance, Nandita Giri, a senior software engineer who has worked at Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, says she would pay thousands of dollars annually for an AI personal assistant. Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, doesn't expect companies to take into account the social cost of career disruption in making their pricing decisions.
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