AI Is Not A Threat But An Opportunity Only If You Are Willing To Adapt. Else You Will Become Redundant (#4)
From the '90 house per week' conversation, it is clear even large firms don't get it
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The video clip is from a conversation with Zuckerberg of Meta that was dropped earlier this week. He says that in 2025, Meta expects mid-level engineers to be replaced by AI coding agent swarms because of higher efficiencies. Check the video in this link: video link.
The year of replacement is 2025! So you can expect that in 2030, many of these companies will have only a fraction of engineering jobs. Marc agrees that initially, it will be costly as you have to integrate the AI engine and then train it, and eventually, the replacement will happen. But once it happens, it will scale itself up across the board and have a broad impact.
On the other hand, we have large IT company heads making statements about working 90 hours including weekends -at a time when automation is likely to wipe out jobs. Something is not in sync :)
It takes exactly Zero employees for some startups already;
Meanwhile, here is a brand new startup with zero employees. Check out the AI-run company with zero engineers. The combined AI tools running it cost a whopping $250 a month!
Check the tools used: Quoting from the original post -
I saw a cool Twitter post by a startup founder that listed his founding employees... except it was entirely AI.
Here is his team:
Frontend Engineer = Bolt.new
Backend Engineer = Aider.chat
Product Designer / Manager = Crew AI
Content Creator = Claude
Researcher = Perplexity
Graphic Designer = Canva
Video Editor = Capcut
This would come out to roughly $250 per month...
Now that is bootstrapping 😅
For anyone interested in free options, here are $0 AI tools that I use daily:
- Basedlabs
- Fireflies
- ChatGPTs
- Perplexity
SOURCE: (Shoutout to Melvin Vivas for the post)
“AI will not replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace every one.” - Naval Ravikant
Crystal Ball View:
Pic credit: Author at the Padubidri Beach (India west coast)
Some of the stuff that will likely come out of this frenetic pace of innovation can be imagined. I am taking a stab at it here. Check it out and add your comments.
The initial pace of innovation in AI in general has just started and will continue for some time before it peaks.
Not everything can be automated and we will realize that some things, functions, and tasks are better not automated but left for humans (which those functions or tasks are, we do not know today)
AI tools and the agentic revolution are real, and a sizeable revenue base will develop in Gen AI from this segment.
There could be an or multiple AI agent marketplace where new agents will automatically be discovered, compliance tested, and made available with recommendations as in a trading system with real-time pricing and availability to global systems.
This would also apply to hiring specialist coders in tech firms and outside - where HR departments no longer hire engineers but choose AI agents. Since this requires a certain amount of software understanding I am just curious if some engineers will get attached to the HR department to establish these functions.
India will continue to scale software development and export as an industry because the sheer volume of engineers we develop will continue to drive the global industry ahead. A significant number of AI engineering talent pools are developing now in Bengaluru and Gurugram as we speak.
Data engineering, vector engineering, AI, and ML upgrading tools and courses are being offered for free at many IT firms and this will continue.
Some AI agentic initiatives in GTM and sales are bringing an unimaginable level of creativity and efficiency to the marketing departments of enterprises. I will be covering these in subsequent posts. Stay wired.
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Sridhar Pai Tonse
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