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> I guess now it's our time to adapt to change.

I'm just saddened by the prospect that, for me, "adapting to change" would mean "no longer being able to make a living doing what I actually enjoy". that's why if this is the future, it's a career-killing one for me. Whether or not I stay in the industry, there is no future in my chosen career path, and the alternative paths that people keep bringing up all sound pretty terrible to me.

My only hope is that AI will not achieve the heights that its proponents are trying to reach (I suspect this is the case). I see no other good outcome for me.



If AI does achieve the hyped heights then we're all out of a job, regardless of what we do.

Many people suffer through bullshit jobs[1] so we are privileged to have - at least for a time - done what we really enjoy and got paid for it.

[1] David Graeber father of the term "bullshit jobs"


We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different.

That was 1968. Plus ca change...


> I'm just saddened by the prospect that, for me, "adapting to change" would mean "no longer being able to make a living doing what I actually enjoy". that's why if this is the future, it's a career-killing one for me.

Ok and? You don’t think any of the others put out of their work by other forms of computing like you might’ve enjoyed their jobs? You don’t think it might have been career ending for them?




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