"I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed."
"Shumer pegs his alarm to the February 5 releases of GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic, which he suggests are game-changers in the field, and will quickly lead to jobs being lost. Shumer explains that just a few months ago, he had to spend time going back and forth with an AI after asking it to build a program for some purpose."
February 2026 is compared to February 2020, when few people raised alarms before COVID-19 became a pandemic. Releases of GPT-5.3 Codex and Opus 4.6 on February 5 are characterized as game-changers that could quickly cause job losses. An AI engineer reports being able to describe desired programs in plain English and receive finished, high-quality work without manual corrections. Concerns include AI-enabled creation of biological weapons and AI-driven surveillance states that cannot be dismantled. The next two to five years are expected to be highly disorienting. The post went viral with tens of millions of views and attracted criticism for using AI to write parts of the text.
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