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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a data analyst transitioning to management (unrelated to analytics or IT).  I would not recommend this path, personally - [b]it's one of the first fields that will be largely taken over by AI.  [/b]The tech field is not really friendly to newbies anymore, IMO, and I don't see that changing.[/quote]

I would expect AI will slow the growth in job demand but "being taken over by AI" is a huge overstatement. What is happening is people in the field will need to know how to use all the AI tools that are being developed.[/quote]

I asked ChatGPT if it could improve my code the other day. It gave me some bad suggestions that only made it worse, and when I pointed this out, it gave me back exactly what I had given it in the first place. I don't think there's much danger in ChatGPT taking over anytime soon.[/quote]

+1. AI for coding is possibly useful to spark ideas or give a starting point, but it's not beating humans yet. Maybe eventually, the way we all gave up on writing everything in assembly because computers became fast enough that it wasn't needed any more. But it's going to take time.[/quote]

It's not beating experienced, seasoned humans in senior positions. It is absolutely beating what junior hires can do. At my own workplace we have gotten rid of the junior people, either by firing the or via attrition, and have no plans to fill those spots.

[b]A very good question is how will we have seasoned, experienced people in ten or fifteen years if we don't hire and train junior people now? That comes up in conversation but we're kicking that can down the road.[/b][/quote]

+1 this is the big problem with AI across many fields. The low-level, time consuming tasks that junior people do to learn the basics of a profession are the ones AI can most easily replace.

IMO this makes it critical to get all the experience you can while you are in school so you have a lot of meaningful experience when looking for that "entry level" job. I mentioned above my son is graduating from VT's CMDA major and has a data scientist job. The job is with the company he interned at last summer. He felt the biggest factor in getting that internship was that he'd been getting real experience with a variety of data problems and data tools via their undergrad research program. That's what the hiring manager wanted to talk about.[/quote]

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