• @sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
    3•2 days ago

    As I study the relevant field of intersection between information technology (IT) advancement and society, I can say that this prediction is highly exaggerated. It is likely from the phrase 1 of the three phrases of the hype cycle where some people are developing unrealistical high expectations of a technology or innovation. Those people will enter phrase 2 where they lost interest when they realized that the new innovation is not as influential as expected. Phrase 3 will they recover some interest from phrase 1 when the people find more realistic benefits of the innovation.

    I should also state that the fear of job displacement is unrealistic. The IT effects on radiology, accounting, and software programming does not displace employees. It change the required skill set of the jobs. The new job skill requirement need skills to operate IT tools like artificial intelligence to handle more tasks.

    • @LeGrognardOfLove@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      That’s a very good take.

      But don’t forget that some of the most stupid of us (mainly the CEO’s), will buy in the hype cycle and wreck the life of a lot of people by making the move to generative ai thinking it can actually replace people in their corporations.

  • beleza pura
    1•2 days ago

    i’m a programmer (an actual programmer, not a vibe coder). sometimes it feels like the options available to me in the future are either killing myself or accepting homelessness

    from what i’m seeing, most likely ai will never live up to the hype and the bubble will burst. there’s still a chance it wrecks every industry before bursting, though, which is my fear.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      2•2 days ago

      I don’t expect it’s going to be as dramatic as that. The nature of the work will change, and some companies will go out of business, but there’s really no indication that I see that there isn’t going to be demand for humans to work in the industry in the foreseeable future.

  • -6-6-6-English
    9•3 days ago

    Maintenance guy.

    Robots ain’t replacing maintenance because the ability to get an actual humanoid robot to do all the tasks a facilities guy to do while maintaining it under a 20 an hour labor cost is near impossible. Could change in the future, but there are genuinely some positions I don’t see a humanoid robot with an LLM inside of it doing.

    Anyways if I ever see one I’m gonna tell it there’s a critical error in the power main and it needs to quickly use it’s hands to seal the break and then tell it to pull the main breaker. Getting fired and watching a 100,000 dollar tech-piece blow up would be pretty funny. Probably would be high as shit while I do it.

      • @burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
        2•2 days ago

        Yes, but this is actually expected reality instead of actual reality. Vibe coding is what non experts think coding will become, not what coding is like. And actually typing code is just one part of the job, there’s much more to it than this.

        And meme coin trader is just a very short lived profession for most people who engage in it… The only people who stay for long are scammers.