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Is AI going to kill Hifi?

I work in the tech as a software dev which helps in affording my crazy Hifi hobby. But with in just a year, I have stopped coding and now AI does most of the coding. There are these systems called agentic AI that automates to a point where you don't really need much human interaction at all. 

It's getting pretty crazy. For the most part, anything a human does on the computer AI can do. And let me tell you... it's not a situation where it creates new jobs in place of old ones lost. Google has products for corporations that basically takes care of any need for anything. Ya, you might need a handful of people but not much more to be honest. 

I wonder, what is this going to do to the Hifi market? If AI eliminates all these white colored jobs, how will these Hifi shops and brands make it? 

dman777

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jssmith
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Hi-fi is already dead.

As for AI, I spent decades in software development and the last two years studying AI. The vast majority of people, including many software developers, don't understand the magnitude of how the world is about to change. If they start referencing what AI does now, or using historical timelines to predict its slow advancement, you know they don't understand AI from a technical perspective. AI's advancement is exponential, not linear.

In just a few years the vast majority of music will be generated. Musicians and studios will not be needed. The musical instrument market will massively shrink and along with it some interest in non-Pop music. As for higher-end home audio equipment, the market is too small to redevelop it with AI, so I doubt if it will change.

But that's small potatoes. Our whole economic structure is about to change, and therefore our whole societal structure. I think audio equipment will be the least of our concerns.

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