The usage might not be what you think, that is replacing how to tell the computer to do what. The usage might be more like we are expected to use AI, pay a subscription for you to be told to do what.

What a huge sample size, " and in more than 100 responses". Wow, NBC really did their research; 100 chosen responses.

Last year the stories were about how Gen Z having a hard time finding work was due to their unrealistic demands about pay, working hours, perks, and so on.

White collar work, especially in IT, is on the way down. If the now extinct or going extinct jobs were jobs were fulfilled by reading SO and pasting crap together, or reading articles and creating summaries, yeah those are done, except for when particular experience is required. Sometimes knowledge of an industry is required to get the work correct.

How many bots are posting here?

Did someone forget to update a config and leave Prod pointed to their Dev test account?

True. For those that doubt, ask the average "tech" user about the file system on their daily device, be it a "smart" phone, tablet, PC, or whatever. Some junior developers are thrown off by.... partitioning and formatting.

So, yes, 400 mil. desktops were retired and replaced with a mobile device and apps, likely for a monthly cost

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

From the article, AI coding is considered by the executives a full replacement for creating code.

The old way, and in use by some today, was to create code by hand, similar to writing a story. Your mind created it. Then add autocomplete, which most of the time saved on typing, but sometimes interrupts the train of thought.

Now, instead of creating, you get to assemble AI generated snippets, with what amounts to productivity quotas.

The worst part for the Dev and QA teams will come later, when the AI generated code stumbles on a gap, that the automated tests did not fine, and no one has actually read all of the related code. It might be like patching a twenty year old application; start with a lot of reading.

Maybe to the directors and up, AI coding is supposed to all the things that "Agile" is supposed to be, and more.

"I know this is modern Slashdot...", I wonder how many posts are by bots nowadays?

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

Interesting, details are of course in the bill, and then there are the committees to get a bill to the floor. To get on a committee, a senator or representative needs to bring in donations for their party. And then there is the chairperson, and the party.

The status of S.5497 is Introduced. S.5497

Who knows, maybe Hegseth thought it was a good idea too, and long overdue, and got it done without the political part.

"A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad " is not the same as "US scientists flee abroad".

ECHO much?

Even more jobs than those, as each hopefully well paid employee needs housing, services, so on...

From the SUMMARY, not even the TFA, "Blue Origin's New Shepard ", not NASA's ship.