They asked me "what do you think about the adoption of AI?" and I made the grave mistake of being honest. I talked about potential speedups, but also about all the asset theft, flipping, copyright washing, the steady dilapidation of knowledge and the hole the industry was collectively digging themselves into.
I was let go a few months after. They eventually crashed and burned (still high on the fumes), but not before I managed to endorse/vouch/recommend most of my previous team.
I honestly believe there will be a shift in the "workforce" in the coming years and most who got laid off will try something on their own. There are some "offline" jobs and business who would potentially get more mainstream.
The narrative, "yes, you'll lose your, but on the upside you'll be a CEO making $$$ from all your AI productivity" is not a serious take and not something anyone with a job should be promoting.
This is BS being pushed by execs at corporates who want to say that they'll be firing people because of AI, but also want to make it sound like it's an opportunity for those being made unemployed.
Nothing is being promoted here. Many will likely lose their job and AI could give you plenty of productivity tools. We've seen this before in history.
I totally understand that losing your job and income is super stressful. Especially with the inflation in the last few years (an God knows how many more in front of us). I am just not buying the "doomer mentality". There are always opportunities.
Honestly, I've always hated jobs and resented the idea that I had to spend most of my time every day of my life doing work for someone else just so I could afford to have one or two days per week of 'free time'. I retired before the whole AI thing took hold so I never got replaced or even had a single discussion about AI at work. I was a software engineer and probably wouldn't even recognize the role as it looks today.
All this to say that I hope AI takes all of the jobs and frees everyone from the horrible monotony of work-life. I'm not pushing for UBI either, rather, I lean toward UBLMTFA (Universal Basic Leave Me The Fuck Alone).
On a side note, I am deep in the AI world now, run my own local models, build my own harnesses, and "write" more code now than I ever did in my career. Turns out I actually love being a software engineer when the stuff I build is for me.
This resonates with me and did the same. Felt like I was just waiting to get laid off. A few months after I left the layoffs rolled through and company filed for Chapter 11 recently.
Oh and I got laid off from the new job a couple months ago haha
They asked me "what do you think about the adoption of AI?" and I made the grave mistake of being honest. I talked about potential speedups, but also about all the asset theft, flipping, copyright washing, the steady dilapidation of knowledge and the hole the industry was collectively digging themselves into.
I was let go a few months after. They eventually crashed and burned (still high on the fumes), but not before I managed to endorse/vouch/recommend most of my previous team.
This is BS being pushed by execs at corporates who want to say that they'll be firing people because of AI, but also want to make it sound like it's an opportunity for those being made unemployed.
I totally understand that losing your job and income is super stressful. Especially with the inflation in the last few years (an God knows how many more in front of us). I am just not buying the "doomer mentality". There are always opportunities.
All this to say that I hope AI takes all of the jobs and frees everyone from the horrible monotony of work-life. I'm not pushing for UBI either, rather, I lean toward UBLMTFA (Universal Basic Leave Me The Fuck Alone).
On a side note, I am deep in the AI world now, run my own local models, build my own harnesses, and "write" more code now than I ever did in my career. Turns out I actually love being a software engineer when the stuff I build is for me.