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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think people can accurately predict how these things will work out. History shows us that.

+1

The AI I've seen so far is quite underwhelming. It's a helpful tool for me in my job but since it doesn't actually "think," I am not worried about my job. It is helpful for more tedious tasks. It is like an intern (ok maybe better than an intern) that can do helpful things under close supervision.

We'll see how things shake out in the next few years but yeah I'm just not worried about being able to finish out my career over the next couple of decades (or hopefully less). I am concerned about helping guide my DC into a career path that will be sustainable but DC is quite young at this point.

+2. AI isn’t that great. Even for the things it’s good for, people still like the human connection.

I follow an influencer and receive their newsletter via substack. The other day I got a direct message in substack. The first question I asked was whether it was a bot, and it said no. But then proceeded to pitch me something and had typos, such as capitalization after a comma, and was very wordy. But otherwise it sounded like it could have been written by a human. I was disheartened this influencer would use such a tool and unsubscribed.

Anonymous wrote:Why are some people here downplaying AI' potential impact on the job market. Our capital owners have shown time and time again that they want to maximize their earnings.

GS is testing a fully automated software engineer. Of course he won't be ready for prime time, but how about in 2 years?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-autonomous-coder-pilot-marks-major-ai-milestone.html

This remind me of last fall when some people were mocking DOGE saying no job cut will be happen etc

Because there are other factors in play that AI cannot impact -
Climate change, climate and war refugees, food shortages, wars, pandemics, displacements, crime, natural catastrophes, extreme weather events, water shortages, mass deaths

So AI is small potatoes. What? You thought that all things will remain the same and it will just be that AI will replace your job? Huh?

Anonymous wrote:I work in IT at a well-known law firm, and the law firm is going into AI 100%. It launched a Proof of Concept last year using AI to reduce the number of junior lawyers in the firm. The POC went so well that the firm recently laid off over 50% of the junior lawyers on staff. The speed of AI in the next two years will be much more damaging than people think. All of us should be worried.

That's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.

Anonymous wrote:Ai needs to develop robots to plant and harvest food and to extract oil/gas/minerals and eliminate those dangerous jobs.

There are literally all of those as we speak.

The farming robots are starting with crops that can be somewhat manhandled and still be usable…think oranges…not so good picking strawberries or raspberries or similar but improving.

Coal companies are also using robots. Thats the joke about “bringing back coal”…not nearly that many human jobs compared to even 10 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter whether AI will replace workers or not. Capital owners are not the red cross. If one day AI is able to replace workers you damn right they will adopt it. They do not care about you and your family. They care about their own bottom line. It's as simple as that.

They will care when people start kidnapping their kids to ransom for food money.

It doesn't matter whether AI will replace workers or not. Capital owners are not the red cross. If one day AI is able to replace workers you damn right they will adopt it. They do not care about you and your family. They care about their own bottom line. It's as simple as that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in IT at a well-known law firm, and the law firm is going into AI 100%. It launched a Proof of Concept last year using AI to reduce the number of junior lawyers in the firm. The POC went so well that the firm recently laid off over 50% of the junior lawyers on staff. The speed of AI in the next two years will be much more damaging than people think. All of us should be worried.

So there won't be enough mid or senior level lawyers to fix things when it really messes up right?

Don’t engage with trolls. If this actually happened, you’d know.

Because it’s maybe going to change everything. Maybe.

It’s useful and helps me build out ideas as a teacher and it’s writes pointless verbiage pretty well. But it does make stuff up. Its knowledge base is shallow. There’s a lot of wrong information out there and it can’t differentiate.

Because it's so tedious to talk about. Nobody really knows what will happen, the tech is still developing, major changes may come but to evrfy field and not this year.
Yet every thread here is full of AI evangelists shouting about how AI will make all jobs obsolete. It's tiresome and dull.

Ai needs to develop robots to plant and harvest food and to extract oil/gas/minerals and eliminate those dangerous jobs.

Every innovation comes with pluses and minuses, and every generation of workers has to fight to maintain their human rights and dignity. Progress is generally good, and benefits everyone, but only if we demand fair distribution of those benefits. Historically, humans are generally far better off due to progress than our ancestors who were farming or hunter gathering.

Anonymous wrote:I work in IT at a well-known law firm, and the law firm is going into AI 100%. It launched a Proof of Concept last year using AI to reduce the number of junior lawyers in the firm. The POC went so well that the firm recently laid off over 50% of the junior lawyers on staff. The speed of AI in the next two years will be much more damaging than people think. All of us should be worried.

So there won't be enough mid or senior level lawyers to fix things when it really messes up right?

I work in IT at a well-known law firm, and the law firm is going into AI 100%. It launched a Proof of Concept last year using AI to reduce the number of junior lawyers in the firm. The POC went so well that the firm recently laid off over 50% of the junior lawyers on staff. The speed of AI in the next two years will be much more damaging than people think. All of us should be worried.

Anonymous wrote:Because every time there is a new innovation people ran around screaming the sky is falling and it didn’t fall.

This. It will definitely change things. But nobody I know personally lost their job because of the implementation of mass access to the Internet in the 1990s. And that was more amazing. I think AI use will free up money to create other jobs/new jobs, and the new jobs don't have to be worse.

I have said on here a bunch of times that my company wants to use AI to do a certain task and at the current time, there's no prospect at all for doing that. We have developers working now all over the place. Some are working on creating AI tools but a lot are working on custom development work that isn't AI and doesn't use AI. And they all know about AI and "what's coming". There have already been rules/policies on how to use AI to support coding for about 2 years.

In my little corner of the world, although I hear that many kids are having a hard time finding the first job out of college (as I did, in the 1990s), I just heard from a mother who moved her 2025 CS grad to NYC to start at a big tech company. That kid, Class of 2025, is moving there with a whole bunch of interns from summer 2024 who received full-time offers. This same parent had a slightly older kid who was impacted by a delayed start to their full-time offer with a name brand consultancy and slow work for a year or so once he came on board. There are things going on in the Tech industry with entry-level hiring that are NOT driven by AI.

OP, do you want to run around in a panic screaming? Or do you want to figure out how AI will specifically impact you?

I'm coming to realize that a lot of my work is custom white collar work. It requires combining unpredictable input and data sources. So difficult to program anything to connect the data sources for scanning.

This is more like: "Uber will revolutionize the transportation industry" vs. "Uber will make it more convenient for rich people to get home from bars and will hurt Big Taxi". I can't remember the last time I took an Uber...maybe 4 or 5 years ago? Because I have my own car, and it's better/more convenient/possibly safer even though it's more expensive to own than to let some pothead occasionally drive me in their banged up junker.

I think it will be interesting to see if companies can improve front-end customer service with AI. Because automated telephone contact centers, chatbots etc. really stink. And low-level human contacts often can't answer questions either. Maybe with even more automation of the low-hanging fruit problems, they could afford to train, pay, and retain better human customer service workers to handle those jobs.

One thing is obvious - technobillionnaires don't give a rip about little people or their lives. I wish they'd stop trying to create scifi dystopias that they personally think are cool and doing dumb stuff like trying to get to Mars when we have real problems they could tackle on Earth.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think people can accurately predict how these things will work out. History shows us that.

+1

The AI I've seen so far is quite underwhelming. It's a helpful tool for me in my job but since it doesn't actually "think," I am not worried about my job. It is helpful for more tedious tasks. It is like an intern (ok maybe better than an intern) that can do helpful things under close supervision.

We'll see how things shake out in the next few years but yeah I'm just not worried about being able to finish out my career over the next couple of decades (or hopefully less). I am concerned about helping guide my DC into a career path that will be sustainable but DC is quite young at this point.

Yes.

I was here (we all were) when Musk was touting completely autonomous AI cars as coming super soon! within a year! -- and how long has that been going on? What about his virtual reality headsets? And people (or a person) has been posting about AI taking over people's jobs for years now with great glee here. Okay. Sure. THAT hasn't happened yet, although I guess it may or may not in the next year or two.

But it the point just to try to poke people into being panicked about it, without any real action to take? Why? I'm sure as heck not going to dance around all scared for you.

Get back to me when you have a specific action to do about it. Until the, I still have work piling up, and I don't have time for you.