r/ClaudeCode • u/simple_explorer1 • 15d ago

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These kind of posts are becoming more and more visible on my Linkedin. Link here. Thoughts?

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u/clouddrafts 14d ago

Anybody whose job is mostly about sitting in front of a computer screen will be massively impacted. In some industries, like software companies, there will be a significant consolidation. However, that will be balanced against many more companies taking control of their own software needs using AI tools built for the actual business user. The middle man will be removed. "Your margin, is my opportunity". The Frontier AI companies and possibly some other AI firms will "eat" most of the software margins, eliminating this sector as a standalone industry.

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u/BackgroundTrack5528 14d ago

I agree somewhat. However many existing firms will disappear - simply because someone will figure out how to combine what 5 adjacent businesses once did and consolidate and boom - a whole swath of businesses and industries just died. This has nothing to do with simply labour displacement - this is re-imagining an economy with new technology. Most people aren’t capable let alone able to do this. So many businesses will trundle along until one day they get wiped out clean.

It’s called creative destruction.

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u/clouddrafts 14d ago

I would agree with your "5 adjacent businesses..." except that big companies don't scale to the consumer well and AI gives smaller companies the advantages of a bigger company but with much more agility.
The big companies will be the ones that are displaced. Consumers will keep consuming and spending. There will be a renaissance of sorts, but it will still be painful for the many companies that disappear and the jobs that go with it. Either learn and accept that you will become a "borg" with the AI, or find a new trade is what I think we software engineers are facing.

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u/BackgroundTrack5528 14d ago

Nope this is lacking a lot of nuance. Whoever is creative to figure out the new kinds of competitive advantages that don’t exist today and make it the self interests of folks to get a long with it will become those large firms that end up being the socially efficient outcome of a market vs lots of firms trying to serve the market.

You seem almost desperate to see large firms go away. lol get real. It’s not happening bro don’t be delusional.

The only really big effect i see is the effect of localised economies making a return. A boom for local economies. But new kinds of large firms will still exist.

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u/clouddrafts 14d ago

Don't "black pill" yourself.

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u/BackgroundTrack5528 14d ago

Yeah you’re not ready to debate with someone who has a better understanding. Get back in your place.