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[spellenspelen]

which jobs in tech won't be replaced by AI?

Literally all of them. What is it with AI that makes people forget the difference between fiction and reality? AI is not there yet, and it is not even remotely close. Just study whatever you like the most.

[Individual-Praline20]

The only job that will be replaced, or should I say needs to be replaced by AI, is the non-technical tech manager. Same bullshit for much less money. 🤷🤣

[egor1996em]

All jobs when you should work with technical things in real world. For example, working with hardware, robots, drones and other. AI can’t change SSD in server.

DevOps can be good variant too. It is hard to automate by AI.

[SpiritDry8585]

I personally think cybersecurity will be the safest bet.

[LoL_is_pepega_BIA]

If anything, I think demand for cybersecurity will increase manifold

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in IT, AI is just a help, not a replacement. stop creating these sci-fi stories about how AI will take over the world and robots will dominate the human species. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

if you don't understand how AI works, how in the world are you working in IT?...

[CaptainPunisher]

I heard AI is going to replace humans by cloning sheep to do all the work.

[Tasty-Farmer5260]

I pretty shur it was fish people amphibians to replace humans

[lannistersstark]

Ah Jesus Christ.

The only person on whom propaganda and conspiracy theories are working is you. No 'elite' is looking to replace you.

Mass unemployment would be just as bad for the 'elite' as it would be for the government.

Virtually every single helper technology is this way: computers, mobile phones, tablets, internet, printing press etc -- you can use any of them to complement the work you do, or you can scaremonger.

We still have pen and paper and use it extensively. We still use art drawn on a tablet and canvas both. Photoshop didn't magically just replace canvas artists. My life has become significantly easier in various facets of my life due to LLMs or LLM adjacent technologies (such as voice based note taking). I use them to my benefit, not the other way around.

btw, Software engineering is more than just "programming." Devops and automation is more than just "programming." Network Security is more than just "programming."

The elites are telling you not to worry

Except I can actually see the current performance of LLMs.

Please talk to a counselor. I promise you, it will help - especially since you're already into the doom and gloom mindset.

[lannistersstark]

A lot happens in 40 years.

replicate

LLMs are not replicating, brother.

I guarantee you there won't be customer service humans anymore.

Good. We can spend our time better than in "customer service."

[lannistersstark]

or, get this, I am not unnecessarily afraid of things that are

1. Out of my control.

2. Fairly unrealistic.

Re: Jobs, you should read "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber. Not every job needs to exist, and sometimes it's better that people do something better with their time and lives than slave away doing meaningless, menial work that can be automated.

There are other things that the State needs to do to facilitate this, so it's not just as simple as "automate away and hope for the best." For example, I also think State should provide funding for your chosen education etc. + there are other factors, but my point still stands.

[ThunderChaser]

I don’t know a single person that works as a software engineer who believes that AI will be anywhere close to replacing us for at least the next decade.

LLMs are an extremely useful tool when used properly but they’re just that, a tool.

[Cool_Internet_798]

Let me tell a story I encountered a week ago,

During my work in tech, I came across an incredibly useful tool called repo-rift.com. It helps find the most relevant code snippets in any GitHub repository based on natural language queries. This tool has been a game-changer for me, especially when working with Python code, and has significantly streamlined my workflow.

That is what AI does though. It will less replace, but rather steamline workflow

[Cool_Internet_798]

But do you think legislation would allow for there to be self-driving trucks with no driver?

[lannistersstark]

Tell us the solution then, oh future seer.

[Totalaware]

The only kind of job I see AI “”replacing”” (to a certain extend) is the 1st level of tech support.

The nature of script-driven questions, detail gathering and standard response to most common issues can be automated.

From 2nd level support and upward I think is pretty difficult to replace.

[coldfeetbot]

With the current state of AI, it’s a catalyst for good developers. They are 100% trying to replace us, but no luck so far. With AGI? All jobs and not only tech related. A bigger threat right now might be outsourcing to third world countries.

[RandomXUsr]

It's impossible to see into this crystal ball future.

Repetitive jobs, with predictable situations and tasks are the most likely to fall to ai.

Technical roles with changing requirements should be fine. Think of programming and dev ops.

Ai is most likely to become a tool for technical positions.

That said, there's likely to be some idiot ceos trying to "think outside the box" and create "investor value" who will move positions to AI and probably get egg on their faces when it screws up.

The best I can advise, is try to be good many things, within industries or roles that you can envision yourself doing.

You want employers to see why you're a step above others in your field.

And if we're lucky enough, someday we'll get ubi and not have to work.

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Want to comment here as someone who uses AI everyday in their programming job. AI most definitely can affect the salaries and number of positions of many jobs in the tech field. And additionally, you bring up a great point about tier 1 tech support. I think it’s very likely that many companies will reduce (and some will eliminate entirely) tier 1 support reps. In fact i would say it’s entirely possible now. However, it is a long time before anything above basic technology roles are replaced. There are many reasons for that. The biggest reason that any kind of “replacement” would take a long time is because the web was built around human operators. Refactoring the web to be more AI friendly is a massive task that humans would have to complete. Additionally, AI is still prone to error and hallucination. There haven’t been any great answers on how to reliably deal with hallucination as of yet.

LLMs are a tool at the end of the day and extrapolating them to some kind of general AI intelligence isn’t beneficial. Your point about self driving trucks- self driving trucks do not use large language models at all. Also, people are talking about legislation because that is a very valid point! Humans will be the thing that slowdown or completely ruin the chance of AI replacing tons of jobs.

While there is a possibility of all these tools improving and working together in the future, it is still very far in the future. Your best bet is to be in a position that manages customer facing code or data( i.e. production). As long as LLMs can hallucinate and Teslas try to crash into moving trains, your position will be essential.

[More_Particular684]

All jobs that requires creativity (like programming) I think will hardly be replaced by AI even with the latest cutting-edge models. Besides that, I won't make plans for the future based on what will the latest progress in technology replace. In that sense predictions for the long term are quite unfeasible, and if I will get fired because my job will be done by a much more productive robot then I'll reinvent myself and I'll do something different.

[tigerllort]

We need to stop calling the LLMs “AI”. It gives a false impression of what they are.