The impact of AI on jobs

[Horace]

We’re about to enter into a golden age of computer games. Everybody with a good idea will be able to build a game around it, no artists or programmers required. I wonder wha big game studios will bring to the table other than interference from the marketing department.

[Horace]

Jack Dorsey cuts 40% of workforce, explicitly due to AI replacing humans:

Stock for the company up 20% on the news.

And Grok's summary of Dorsey's letter:

We're slashing the company from 10k to under 6k people because AI plus tiny teams now let us do the same work with way fewer bodies, and the CEO would rather gut half the staff in one brutal move than bleed out slowly over years.

[jon-nyc]

I could do no better than that summary.

[Horace]

Grok was asked for a one sentence summary, which is a neat trick.

[jon-nyc]

Big if true.

[Axtremus]

[Klaus]

[89th]

I honestly do feel bad for those caught graduating at the wrong time. I work in IT but pivoted a few years ago to cybersecurity and so far we are finding ways to use AI to make our job better but I’d imagine eventually we’ll be augmented (aka replaced) by agentic robots who can find/stop security threats 24/7 and don’t need sleep.

[jon-nyc]

I think my son is in a really bad age group for this. He’s needing to choose a college major knowing that AI is about to change everything but only able to speculate as to how. But by the time he graduates college those changes will be in full swing.

[Mik]

Is he leaning one way or another? If I was his age I’d lean toward something entrepreneurial. Trades maybe. Bright kid, he’ll do well but white collar is dicey.

The changes we are seeing in our lifetime are dizzying.

[jon-nyc]

Didn’t have cowboys on my list of vulnerable professions.

[jon-nyc]

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[Klot]

@jon-nyc The elegant part is that management keeps trying to replace the people who talk to customers with software that talks like management. One can only admire the efficiency with which they automate their own least human quality.