Which career path is not ruined by AI?
https://lemmy.zip/post/60742060
Which career path is not ruined by AI? - Lemmy.zip
I’m kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion. I hate the
hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts,
I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture. At work I often
times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don’t
give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn’t slop) I’m sick
of it, I’m sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions
bro based on your documentation bro. I want to switch careers, so which career
is not ruined by AI?
Naturally you can ask LeChat and you will probably get a sensible answer ;-) but in general jobs that deal with real people (sales, consulting, project management, politics, …) and real things (e.g. electrician, construction, gardener, creator of beautiful items (furniture, art), mechanic…)
Consulting and Project management are ripe for AI disruption. No way will they be eliminated, but an AI camera tracking the blue collar workers plus a “manager” who is just a data entry clerk, especially when combined with other data sources will remove a massive amount of managing a project.
Consultants and Sales to a large degree are just about listening to clients whine about something and repeating back to management (in a different voice) the same things that their own staff is saying. LLMs are good at being that different voice.
Thanks for adding more perspective. Sure, if you take for instance “sales”, that is a huge category, from people who do telephone sales, to car sales, to software sales, realtors, consulting sales, complex equipment sales… the more complex the product or service on sale is, the less likely it is that the sales person will be replaced by AI, and the more likely it will be that this person will use AI as an assistant. The OP will need to identify that sweet spot, and a good education will be crucial.
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