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.
advocate for socialism which i have been doing for years.
Starve
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.
kinda already has. or at least IT hiring seems to be anemic. I really have no plan but keep trying and hoping.
Suicide. Kidding. Might make a game.
In that order or …?
Start a new career fixing all the fuckups made by AI. If you think vibe coding is dangerous, try vibe machining
I want a recording of those expensive noises
That’s also what I currently experience in my position. A lot of workflows are going to be automated by some AI stuff, but whenever someone is planning to produce physical goods in masses you can not effort doing stupid misstakes. When you simply put the output of the LLM in to the input of your CNC, Ion-Implanter, Litograph-Machine, Welding Robot, Aribag or Breaking systems. A mistake is going to be sooo fucking expensive that the human in the loop is not an cost factor anymore. And when you do high precision stuff an approximate solution is never sufficient.
I always think years back when Jeep had to issue a recall for like 30k vehicles because a robot missed a fillet weld on a suspension component and QA missed every single one lmfao
I know the addresses of several billionaires, and I am not too good to commit cannibalism
What does that have to do with OP’s scenario?
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.
yeah but the trouble is also that if other jobs close down, people are gonna push into your field and take up the jobs too
It won’t, so none
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.
There’s all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren’t “tech first”, for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn’t know how the brand new machine works.
Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.
It’s pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there’s no investors demanding a mass-layoff.
My suggestion is to find something where you’re on-staff for a company that exists outside of the “digital” realm.
Resources in The United States
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 https://988lifeline.org/
Veterans Crisis Line 9-8-8, Press 1 https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/
Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/
TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) https://translifeline.org/
(copied from duckduckgo)
Not mentioned is 911, if you’re actively considering something call them too.
There are lots of things you can do besides working in a corporate hell that you should consider before you get to suicide. You haven’t even taken out a huge loan to start your own business yet.
I work for the army. AI is a security risk.
I mean probably no more of a security risk than the head of the Department of WAR and the rest of Whiskey Leaks’s entourage.
I work in data protection and governance.
I’ll be the poor sod behind the scenes trying to stop it taking over. I already insisted that the words
“AI must not be used to make decisions” was inserted into the AI and data protection policies.
Which means I’m probably marked for extermination when it takes over.
No way AI will get to the point where it can steal catalytic converters.
Eh, give it twenty years.
