Will AI take your job?

Yeah I'm still not convinced about using it for coding. It has replaced Google stack overflow for boilerplate scripting or other bs code that no one wants to spend time on anyway. The statistic that's flouted by managers will be volume of code written by ai. But any professional coder will tell you that the best coders write minimal high quality code, so lines of code could be a metric for how **** you are at coding rather than productivity. And then if you look at the day to day job of a senior dev, they honestly spend about 10% of their time writing code. There is so much non coding work required before you execute a few lines for production, the coding bit is the easy part. In the end it's just another tool, not even that important , in my opinion at least. Also you cannot maintain, support, develop a system where you have blind spots in understanding, so you can't really use ai as a crutch or you will completely screw yourself down the line.

The replacing of stack overflow does concern me. Eg I have had copilot write plenty of bits of code for me. But there's been some clear points where it was very wrong or is far from the best or most modern solution. The other thing is half of it's info is mined from places like stack overflow. If that falls off a cliff then that's gonna impact the AI ironically.

I never saw content moderation as a long term career choice in fairness and considering tech companies used countries with very low wages and indeed legislation meant it was never going to be a mainstream career move in western society.

Still though, sad to see jobs going anywhere at a time of such uncertainty in the world.

I’m really starting to pay attention to the world of AI now and intend getting myself up to speed - I’ve used a number of apps for work and it certainly does help make life easier for some things- but I can see why graduates are starting to struggle to get jobs and I can see that where companies are already utilising technology and lean processes in their day to day work, they need less and less staff to fulfil roles.

https://www.techcentral.ie/tiktok-replaces-human-moderators-with-ai/

I actually believe it - I haven’t scratched the surface hardly of AI from a work perspective but I already see it as replacing a lot of roles - you’ll still need humans but a lot less of them

They didn't become the most profitable company by being nice.

AI will easily replace jobs in private organisations. Where I work, outsourcing was the first to be dropped. Why offshore anymore when you can just get AI to do it? I cant see AI doing much damage in the public sector though.

That's because the public sector is unionised. The private sector isn't. People working in the private sector have no say when it comes to their working conditions and are just pawns to be used or discarded.

The AI threat to people's jobs is real and it's going to become more and more serious in the coming decade or two as AI becomes more powerful. And the private sector, at all levels, is very interested in it primarily as a possible cost cutting measure, and that generally means axing staff.

There is still no answer to this but we will find out, the job losses are really starting to spread. I would love it if UBI was introduced but then who the hell will want to do the jobs that AI can't do, like nursing and rubbish collection? Why would anyone work in stressful, not particularly well paid jobs if they can get UBI instead?