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If AI takes my job it's already taken everyone else's job. So non I guess.

Seriously though if it gets to that point, and I don't think it will I think AI is overhyped, governments are going to have to either put up or get lynched.

Same as my retirement plan. Make billionaires afraid.

Guillotine maintenance.

I am confident it won't take my job. I don't have a backup plan.

Depends.

My main job it would be interesting. I mainly plan for organisations how to handle disasters. Not necessarily IT disasters but actual one - what happens if your hospital is on fire, your airline has hundreds of people stranded somewhere (yeah, we had a bad time recently), your muncipial water supply goes bad, the Russians actually come,etc.

If AI can do that on a level it replaces my staff and me...well...good for everyone else,because right now it's a underdeveloped and rarely looked upon issue.

In my side job I am still working in my original trade as a critical care paramedic. Until AI can fully replace one there it will take a long time (but we see a lof of actually beneficial developments that makes the job insanely more easy and capable) and I am very likely retired by then. What is far more likely is that societies won't be able to pay for proper healthcare anymore...and that would be "not replaced" technically, I guess.

I'm not convinced that there's enough training data for it to be good in my specialization anytime soon. And it certainly won't be trusted for safety critical applications even if that were to happen.

That being said I'm very, very, glad to not be in CS or law where there is nearly endless data to train on.

Take a 6 month vacation and then negotiate double my pay when they frantically try to rehire me.

Wander the American South West, having adventures like Kane in Kungfu.

In a way, LLMs have already taken my job as a software engineer. It's not that they can do my job better than me. But they suck all the joy out of the field, they expose the almost religious culture around efficiency and velocity in the field (no, i don't want to be 5% faster to make the boss richer and feel miserable doing it) and how little my peers care about craft and quality. Also why do those fucks have to lap up every new technofacist oligarchy thing with such enthusiasm, it pisses me off.

so it's not that it does my job, but that it showed me how much i disdain this field now.

I'm thinking of switching to something (cnc) machining/cad related, both skills i taught myself and love , but i don't know what kind of position could be suitable given my dev knowledge and lack of formal training. Plus i wouldn't want to do the operator kind of work where all you do is put stock in the cnc machine and execute someone elses CAM, that seems too close to using LLMs in spirit. I do want and like creative work and tinkering.

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and I'm lucky enough to work for a university, so good work life balance, job security, pension, mostly meaningful work. Ironically enough in the AI field… But that makes considering to switch even harder. I could easily and comfortably coast along and feel discontent for many years to come.

The Winchester.

the datacenters likely will cost AI to much to maintain before that happens.

I don't believe that will happen permanently. I'm a Sysadmin currently working in client support I don't think ai will drive around town and fix laptops for the clients bit if it ever does AI still needs servers to run on. Also something with Wood maybe?

If AI takes my job, then either everyone is fucked or we moved into a post-scarcity economy and the world is that futuristic utopia from the meme.

(I'm a janitor)

I work in cybersecurity. My job is in no danger. AI seems to be an expert in things until you start asking it questions about a subject you're an expert in. Then it all falls apart. Anyone who thinks they're using AI for cybersecurity or thinks AI can do cybersecurity knows nothing about cybersecurity.

The only people who would use AI for cybersecurity wouldn't hire a cybersecurity firm anyway but would instead ask their friend Bob who "knows computers" and would get roughly the same level of expertise as a result and feel just as happy about either.

Take the AI's job. I can spout misinformation to morons too

Start a new career fixing all the fuckups made by AI. If you think vibe coding is dangerous, try vibe machining

AI so shit it comes for my unemployment...

There's no reason for that sort of planning, because AI can't do shit. Especially not reliably and dependably. The CEOs who claim to have replaced people are lying. A price explosion for LLMs is also necessarily coming, because currently they are all burning through privat equity funds like a strawfire.

No way AI will get to the point where it can steal catalytic converters.

Too late. Didn't have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I'm job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.

I am studying CS. AI has already taken my job. I am glad to be studying CS anyway. I had a lot of anxiety about it early on and was bummed the fuck out, had to do some soul searching and remember why I chose CS in the first place. I like computers, I wanna know how they work. And I don't wanna let AI dumben me down and make me forget for the bubble will eventually pop.

die

AI cannot take my job because I am already jobless.