AI disruption of software engineering will be faster than the internet's collapse of travel agents
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martinald
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Summary
The article draws a parallel between the collapse of the travel agent industry due to the internet (47% decline in agents from 2000-2012) and the impending disruption facing software engineering from AI. The author argues that while travel agents had a decade to adapt, software engineers will face a much more compressed timeline. The piece examines how travel agents survived by moving upmarket and suggests software engineers may need similar strategies, but warns that AI-driven disruption will happen far faster than the internet-driven collapse of travel agencies.
Key quotes
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US agents numbered 124,000 in 2000. By 2012, that had fallen 47% to 65,000.
The ones who survived did it by going upmarket.
I keep thinking about this when I look at what's coming for software engineering - except this time, I don't think we get ten years.
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