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

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.

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

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

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

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.

AI cannot take my job because I am already jobless.

Revolt until I get ubi or we seize the means of production.

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)

It already took, I'm freelance dev and the only client I had decided to start vibe coding their own things. Never requested anything anymore from me. All he does is a .html page with raw javascript.

It's pure slop of course, but it seems it's enough for him and do the job.

I refuse to work in corporation hell.

Next step will be suicide or living on the streets asking for food and temporary jobs just to have what to eat.

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.

I know the addresses of several billionaires, and I am not too good to commit cannibalism

The Winchester.

I’m fairly decent with mechanical work and I can work trades too.

But I won’t be doing that; if AI takes my job, it’s taken the economy and it’ll be a dystopia. I’ll be farming my back yard wishing it was big enough to sustain my family and knowing it’s not.

It won't, so none

Weep. Try something closely related with some paid training. In a few years, get more money to fix all the crap that AI has done.

Guillotine maintenance.

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.

Change my name to John Connor

I work at a slaughterhouse so not sure if AI can replace me. Bots most likely could, but I feel like they would have by now if they were gonna.

I'll be a plumber. Try taking that one.

Same as my retirement plan. Make billionaires afraid.

advocate for socialism which i have been doing for years.

I'm 6 years away from getting Social Security.. Which means I'll get to it about the time to see some billionaire buy another boat with what was left in the Social Security fund.

I wish my wife would be up for this, but I'm damn close to selling everything and buying a boat then fucking off to the south Pacific until I die. The problem is she gets motion sickness from standing still. She'd never be able to live on a boat.

I'm very good at quickly sharpening knives and other blades. I'm sure I could have a decent side hustle with traveling and sharpening gravity fueled blades.

Pick up something else like a trade. Would be a great excuse to pick up electric engineering or carpentry

AI so shit it comes for my unemployment...