>All these AI replacing coders and creatives is just a broad marketing campaign to put downward pressure on dev and creative salary.

I see it as the work being replaced not actually being valuable work in the first place, at least not as valuable as some of us want them to be.

Take copywriting for example, that industry got decimated basically overnight by "AI". Why? It's because the work was actually not valuable, it was work any sufficiently complicated program could do let alone a common man. Writing catchy sales catches and blurbs? It's frankly a miracle that industry lasted as long and valued as high as it did.

Or the art scene for another example; if you as an artist or illustrator can be replaced by "AI" then your art was actually only worth a dime a dozen. I say this as a blunt objective observation, not intended as any personal attack or the like.

Or for an even more brutal example: Journalism. We literally can't tell apart man-written and "AI"-written journalism, and that's because man-written journalism has been in the absolute gutter for years if not decades now. Journalism is bad enough today that "AI"-journalists could come in and do an equal if not better job of it than man-journalists.

"AI" is, like many tools of astronomical convenience that came before it, making the act of work more accurately reflect its real value. Some workers will lose, others will win, but ultimately we will all be better off because work and the perceived value of that work aligning better is a very good thing for both producers and consumers.

I don't know what's going on, but lately on /r/programming there has been a /lot/ of negative pessimistic and downright angsty articles on software development, like there is some kind of campaign to downgrade the career of software developer.

I don’t really go on Reddit so don’t know if something is going on but I know there has been very few jobs this year compared to normal times and rates have been going down so it could be genuinely disaffected people being angry rather than a coordinated campaign.

I've stopped visiting /programming a long time ago, but just wanted to say (and I've said it before in here) that the status of the computer programmer has been on a downward trend since just before the pandemic, I'd say 2017-2018 (maybe a little earlier than that, maybe just going into the pandemic, but that's the general timeframe).

There are many reasons for that, partly the "normies" realising that most of what we, programmers, do at our day-jobs is detrimental to the society as a whole (see Facebook, see all the jobs lost to automation, see the kafkaesque world brought about by digitising almost every interaction between a human being and the State/Government), it's partly because some of us, computer programmers ourselves, have realised the same thing, it's partly because of how many computer programmers are now financially way better off compared to the normally employed people, it's partly because of the smugness that some of us, the computer programmers, brandish in many social contexts, and there are countless other similar reasons.