Job displacement is a serious issue everywhere, but professional computer science majors should get ready for a tightening of the belt in their field.
A Semafor article published this month, written by Reed Albergotti, shows how Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, is enthusiastic about cutting the firm’s workforce in half, while boosting revenue something like 500% on the back of agenticAI.
Replit’s new tool can reportedly “write a working software application with nothing but a natural language prompt” and that’s going to usher in a new renaissance in computing, while costing some careerists their jobs.
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