Will AI take your job?

And who is paying for your life after those redundancy packages run themselves dry?

AI is a cancer, should have been stopped 10 years ago with no one touching it.

I think we desperately need a Universal Basic Income honestly.

I'd say a lot of money could be freed up by cutting off a certain South African's handouts.

I've described it badly by using the term "subtasks", but it would be creating local helper libraries. One example would be for parsing calls from an older, blackbox, system with with inconsistent conventions. Instead of getting booleans as true/false, it would sometimes be strings or 1/0. There's probably an open source library that could do this but I'd normally spend 10-15 minutes writing it to carer for every scenario I could think of, and then the unit tests on top of that. A one minute explanation to an AI tool with clear instructions of what I want and it gets created almost instantly, including unit tests and caters for edge cases I didn't think of (yes/no).

More recently, I've found it great for getting pipelines up and running. We have a DevOps team that maintains the build tools and servers but our build pipelines are our responsibility. AmazonQ is great for generating cloudformation templates as long as you are explicit in your requirements but always needs tweaking to navigate our corporate infrastructure. And being someone with very little Linux experience, asking AI to create a bash script to do X, Y and Z is handy.

I've also gotten AI to generate skeleton code for entire solutions by saying I want a DDD arch with mediator pattern etc, but I have never gone beyond an initial prototype; moreso to see if it could be done.

The more I type, it feels like writing entire systems is like Tony Stark getting Jarvis to do the grunt work.

I think AI will eventually replace work and jobs but not as rapidly as people say.

I work in automation dealing with devs and testers mainly…

A lot of breakthroughs and advancements will be how we can leverage AI for the better.

For traditional companies those who embrace it, accept it and upskill will be the main beneficiaries.

Those who resist will be replaced (eventually)

I can see AI especially agentic creating a new burst of start ups given the productively outcomes, cost etc

Yes, it'll only get better, and as it understands more what people (in university at least) mean by 'critical thinking', it'll be able to produce work that satisfies that demand as well.

I had a student wanting to do a PhD on Gen AI, and I advised her strongly against it, because whatever model and version she used to collect whatever data she'd collect - that version would be obsolete before her PhD would be finished, and whatever analysis she'd done about the capabilities and limitiations of Gen AI would be obsolete also.

Can I ask if all jobs are replaced by robots and ai, and no humans have an income how is an economy suppose to function. Do we scrap capitalism as we know it. Are these robots going to go to the shops to buy goods n services they produce. The whole thing is a fallacy.

Full automated, 24/7, human-less factory, apparently

AI is not going to replace all jobs. It's going to change the way some jobs are done.

AI is the old computer maxim on steroids, garbage in, garbage out. When you throw data at AI searching for an answer ensure the answers are to be found within the dataset

You have the wrong mental model for LLMs, LLMs interpolate between data in training sets and can generate novel outputs. That's their strength. They aren't lookup tables or classifiers or similar.

This is why they can already outperform humans on novel university exams, law, medicine, etc. I.e., the questions are not in the training set. Chain of thought and reasoning models are even more powerful for this. They can already generate novel and correct advanced research, codebases etc. And by 'novel', I mean that it doesn't exist anywhere in the world, nevermind in the training data.