We'll have jobs, but they sure as shit won't be worth $150k anymore.
Any grunt can feed meeting notes into an AI. And frankly, and AI can parse an audio recording on a meeting.
Any grunt can feed meeting notes into an AI. And frankly, and AI can parse an audio recording on a meeting.
And yes, how can we forget that any audio of a meeting has just the correct and final specifications, and not meandering discussions about anything and everything. Can't wait to see a canhazcheeseburger in a financial app because people in the meeting had cats on camera, and people demanded to see them.
I mentioned a "Revert Norway tax code" elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680060 It was a bit tongue in cheek, but a similar requirement ended up with:
- six months of discussions involving almost 20 people
- 4 new BigTable tables
- Deployment of 4 new Dataflow jobs, and fixes to two other Dataflow jobs
- Several complex test runs across the entire system including a few recreations of last year's full data to test that nothing broke
Not a grunt job, definitely. And I'm 100% sure that people doing that would still have their jobs 10 years from now, even with AI.
It amazes me, really, that people who would otherwise boast about how rational they are, and how they follow logic etc. completely replace all their knowledge and expertise with child-like belief in magic when it comes to anything AI-related.
I'd be sacred too, but at least would be taking a rational approach to it. It's an adapt or die situation. Putting your head in the sand is just gonna get you mowed down.
The only ones scared in this conversation are you and others who literally say you're scared for your jobs and your careers because of a magical boogey man.