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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? 

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What I’ve seen output by coding AI’s - beyond toy apps, simple scripts, and well defined patterns that have already been solved 1 million times over - has been absolutely awful. It still sucks at "hard" engineering, and anything "new". But that’s true of most human coders too. For now it’s good for some lol’s. I don’t find it personally useful in a menaningful capacity, and it’s not replacing me in the near future. But to be honest - if AI does get a lot better, and encoraches upon the work I actually want to be doing, then I’ll be pissed. I love what I do. But I don’t see that as a foregone conclusion, yet. 

Anyways, working class like me (even white collar) was getting priced out of hifi even before any jobs were lost to AI. I’m done - anything I buy from here on out will be used market, and that will be sparse. Crazy times :( 

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