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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.

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

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.

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

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.

AI so shit it comes for my unemployment...

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.

The Winchester.

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.

Change my name to John Connor

Ecoterrorism til death. Lol. Such a funny joke.

Same as my retirement plan. Make billionaires afraid.

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.

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.

Set up a tent near the petting zoo and live there

Looks like a lot of people are going with "denial". Not a good plan.

My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it's a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.

So I'm not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you'll know what to do if something happens without warning.