[Verdex]

I've spent my 20 year career working largely in medical software. The only jobs I've been replacing are pancreas that stop functioning correctly.

Maybe don't speak for all of us.

[raincole]

Computers themselves replaced computers (yeah, a job title). Your medical software certainly automatizes someone else's job, otherwise no one will pay you to write them. You just don't care about them.

Or you do, but you believe it's worth it because your software helped more patients, or improved the overall efficiency and therefore created more demand and jobs - a belief many pro-AI people hold as well.

[Verdex]

The job used to be the patients'. Manually managing type 1 diabetes isn't a fun job. Try reading Think like a pancreas for the fun details.

Patient outcomes are significantly better with modern technology.

> You just don't care about them.

Yeah, okay.

[BeetleB]

My comment wasn't about you in particular but the industry as a whole.

Much of the software written historically is to automate stuff people used to do manually.

I'd wager you use email, editors, search engines, navigation tools and much more. All of these involved replacing real jobs that existed. When was the last time you consulted a city map?