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• 👩‍💻 How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

• 🤑 AI could lead to more, not fewer, high-paying jobs

• 🤖 How software engineers will become AI managers

• 🧘 MIT students & focus

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Book of the Week

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Top Articles

A roundup of the week's most popular articles and essays from Playtext.

1. Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI (24 min)

It presents a common belief that advancements in technology could automate many jobs currently performed by humans, potentially leading to widespread job loss and reduced wages due to increased competition for the remaining non-automated roles. However, the article challenges this pessimistic view by introducing the economic principle of comparative advantage, suggesting that even if AI becomes capable of performing tasks more efficiently than humans, there will still be roles where humans have a comparative advantage due to limitations in AI, such as the finite availability of computing power.

2. Thoughts on the Future of Software Development (10 min)

A future where some engineers focus more on overseeing AI coding agents but still play a crucial role in building complex software.

"We need people who can effectively manage these complexities and translate the business problems from real world domain to digital models. In other words, if you’re able to build a wooden shed from YouTube tutorials without the help of a Civil Engineer, doesn’t mean you can/should do the same for a 10 story building."

3. How I Learned to Concentrate (8 min)

An MIT doctoral student highlights the impact of working within the Theory of Computation group among some of the brightest minds in the field. It emphasizes the significance of deep concentration and genuine productivity over superficial busyness, as learned in an environment where groundbreaking theories and ideas were daily norms.

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