If everyone is replacing low level jobs with AI in order to pump next quarters numbers, they are gonna be fucked in 5-10 years when there is a skilled labour shortage - those very skills learned and developed while doing the lower level jobs.
This is a gargantuan gamble on AI being able to progressively replace more an more complicated jobs, and stay in line with this curve as the skill ages out of the population.
Oh, and nobody will be able to pay for the services provided by these companies because nobody will have money because they can’t get jobs because all the low skill jobs are done by AI, and nobody can develop skills because there is no entry to industries/careers via low skilled jobs.
When I saw a similar article posted previously there was mention that “colleges and boot camps need to level up students faster” the implication there being they want students to graduate into senior positions (I’m not in the field so I have no idea how possible that even is)
What’s infuriating about this position is that it becomes the new “entry level” with entry level pay… Higher skilled, better trained, supposed to be more valuable but will be getting paid less because AI kneecapped them… The future looks more disgusting every day
I feel like the only way this is possible is some terrible co-op between businesses and colleges that, instead of colleges educating on basics and fundamentals, theyve basically turned university into the on-the-job training you would get as an entry level employee. But now, youre paying for it instead of being paid for it.
I work in this field and honestly you need a lot of experience to fulfill the duties of a senior software engineer and there is no replacement for experience. It’s like asking if students can do more school to become a doctor instead of doing residency.
Having been through university, I have no idea how I could “level up faster” without more years.
And I say that as someone that has carved out a career doing something as the (AFAIK) only person (well, freelancer at least) doing what I do in my country.
Maybe AI disrupts universities? Or AI disrupts skills?
Like AirBnB disrupted hotels, then enshitified to make airbnbs require more manual labour to stay at and cost more than a fucking standard hotel room.
Arguably, AI could replace CEOs more effectively than any other position in the company.
A CEO is a person who reaches confident, decisive conclusions, ideally using a bunch of available data. Their process can be a mystery and they can easily be wrong and harm/destroy the company. But they are confident, damn it.
An AI chatbot could do that shit! Hell, you could have it summarize the academic business literature on your subject and the results of similar initiatives at other companies. You world probably do better on average than human CEOs, lol.
It’s not like replacing the workers who have to produce output that’s actually correct.
If everyone is replacing low level jobs with AI in order to pump next quarters numbers, they are gonna be fucked in 5-10 years when there is a skilled labour shortage - those very skills learned and developed while doing the lower level jobs.
This is a gargantuan gamble on AI being able to progressively replace more an more complicated jobs, and stay in line with this curve as the skill ages out of the population.
Oh, and nobody will be able to pay for the services provided by these companies because nobody will have money because they can’t get jobs because all the low skill jobs are done by AI, and nobody can develop skills because there is no entry to industries/careers via low skilled jobs.
Replacing jobs with AI is so fucking stupid.
When I saw a similar article posted previously there was mention that “colleges and boot camps need to level up students faster” the implication there being they want students to graduate into senior positions (I’m not in the field so I have no idea how possible that even is)
What’s infuriating about this position is that it becomes the new “entry level” with entry level pay… Higher skilled, better trained, supposed to be more valuable but will be getting paid less because AI kneecapped them… The future looks more disgusting every day
I feel like the only way this is possible is some terrible co-op between businesses and colleges that, instead of colleges educating on basics and fundamentals, theyve basically turned university into the on-the-job training you would get as an entry level employee. But now, youre paying for it instead of being paid for it.
That already happens, it’s called “Unpaid Internship with College Credit”.
Now imagine that for 4+ years instead of semester at a time.
Yeh. Unpaid internship instead of an apprenticeship.
But an apprenticeship doesn’t require a university degree to qualify for
I work in this field and honestly you need a lot of experience to fulfill the duties of a senior software engineer and there is no replacement for experience. It’s like asking if students can do more school to become a doctor instead of doing residency.
Having been through university, I have no idea how I could “level up faster” without more years.
And I say that as someone that has carved out a career doing something as the (AFAIK) only person (well, freelancer at least) doing what I do in my country.
Maybe AI disrupts universities? Or AI disrupts skills?
Like AirBnB disrupted hotels, then enshitified to make airbnbs require more manual labour to stay at and cost more than a fucking standard hotel room.
I think they believe they have reached class war escape velocity.
somehow with how anti humane so many ceos are, that seems to be the best case scenario right now
the great future is ahead of us rejoice technology enables abundance of resources and less work
we just dont do it because sharing sucks
AI can’t even replace entry level jobs. Any company that tries is going to fall flat on its face.
AI could replace CEO’s.
Arguably, AI could replace CEOs more effectively than any other position in the company.
A CEO is a person who reaches confident, decisive conclusions, ideally using a bunch of available data. Their process can be a mystery and they can easily be wrong and harm/destroy the company. But they are confident, damn it.
An AI chatbot could do that shit! Hell, you could have it summarize the academic business literature on your subject and the results of similar initiatives at other companies. You world probably do better on average than human CEOs, lol.
It’s not like replacing the workers who have to produce output that’s actually correct.
A wet cardboard box can replace most CEOs
& It’s not even real AI to begin with, just automation algorithms