Top programmers will become MORE valuable, not less, due to AI

Top programmers will become MORE valuable, not less, due to AI | Those people will become more valuable, not less valuable, because these systems need to be controlled by humans at the moment. Those people will be capable of grasping the parallelization and activities of this

Those people will become more valuable, not less valuable, because these systems need to be controlled by humans at the moment. Those people will be capable of grasping the parallelization and activities of this

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