We Are Eating Our Own Seed Corn – SQLServerCentral

Here is the deeper problem, and the one that should give even the most enthusiastic AI advocates pause.

The AI systems that are replacing junior workers did not emerge from nothing. They were trained in decades of human-generated work: code committed by junior developers learning on the job, documentation written by entry-level technical writers, support transcripts from help desk analysts in their first year. Every iteration of AI that handles “routine” technical work is drawn on a reservoir of human expertise that was built, painstakingly, by people doing exactly the jobs we are now eliminating.

What happens when that reservoir stops being replenished?

Not the first person to say this, but it bears repeating. Again and again and again.