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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

AI cannot take my job because I am already jobless.

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

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.

If AI takes my job, then either everyone is fucked or we moved into a post-scarcity economy.

(I'm a janitor)

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

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.

The Winchester.

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.

AI so shit it comes for my unemployment...

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

Boat mechanic

Watch the internet break. Good luck talking to your cloud hosted AI agent when your internet is offline.

Guillotine maintenance.

Ecoterrorism til death. Lol. Such a funny joke.

Change my name to John Connor

Same as my retirement plan. Make billionaires afraid.

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.

It won't, so none

I take solace in the fact that if my job got automated, a significant portion of the population would be in the same boat as me, so it wouldn't be purely up to me to work something out.