1st person I know who is losing his job due to AI

[Anonymous]

My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

[Anonymous]

What kind of job and skill set does
Your friend have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of job and skill set does
Your friend have?

+2

This is a worthless post without this information OP

[Anonymous]

We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

[Anonymous]

I worked for an ai company. And even they used ai in their training.

Bullet points that were labeled 1. 1. 1. 1. (When it should have been 1 2 3 4). Little punctuation tells.

So maybe I lost my job (promotion?) setting up better training materials for them.

[Anonymous]

I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of job and skill set does
Your friend have?

OP here. I do not know exactly what his exact functions are but he is a software engineer and I think he supports the advertising team.

[Anonymous]

Low level programming jobs have been outsourced for decades. But you still need QA to review Ai generated code.

[Anonymous]

For now...

[Anonymous]

For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

I am glad I studied pure mathematics because it thought me how to solve hard problems. I am an electrical engineer and when I tell people my background and that I never took a single course in circuits or electronics they are shocked. Sadly though corporations today want workers who are ready from day 0. I don't think a young grad who studied pure math will be hired because he doesn't have the "practical" skills to be used from day 1.

[Anonymous]

For now corporations need to please the investors (ironically us) that their capital investments in AI will bring some savings(firing us).

I do think at some points they will have to retire some of the people they fired. For example, your marketing associate is not going to be fully independent with AI generated code in Python to produce the reports they need. We are several years away from reaching this point.

[Anonymous]

Pp here rehire not retire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

I am glad I studied pure mathematics because it thought me how to solve hard problems. I am an electrical engineer and when I tell people my background and that I never took a single course in circuits or electronics they are shocked. Sadly though corporations today want workers who are ready from day 0. I don't think a young grad who studied pure math will be hired because he doesn't have the "practical" skills to be used from day 1.

Such a shame that we think of college right now as job training and try to find “ROI” or first job salary as what you need to focus on.

Math, physics - these are the things we should want our young people to be trained in. It’s hard. And maybe not as practical. But the fundamentals don’t change over their lifetime. These kids have the basics to learn pretty much anything technical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.