• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    1·
    6 days ago

    If AI takes my job it’s already taken everyone else’s job. So non I guess.

    Seriously though if it gets to that point, and I don’t think it will I think AI is overhyped, governments are going to have to either put up or get lynched.

  • Natal@lemmy.world
    501·
    9 days ago

    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.

      • Natal@lemmy.world
        7·
        8 days ago

        My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.

        They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.

        It’s not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.

        But money saved is money so they did it anyway.

        Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.

        Some people don’t do AI for money, there’s a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That’s easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn’t help at all.

    • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      9 days ago

      Honestly, just wait. This happened to a lot of us in 2002 and 2008. It sucks, but they’ll learn they can’t do everything with AI and they’ll SLOWLY hire people back. But it will take time.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      2·
      8 days ago

      job sites essentially made it very hard to find many jobs, i think because AI is being used in resume and screening by employers, its not getting any better. before that they were already doing something similar to AI to screen people out, AI just have more false positive, or if they made sure the AI would have denials.

  • johsny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    9 days ago

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

    • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de
      6·
      9 days ago

      That’s also what I currently experience in my position. A lot of workflows are going to be automated by some AI stuff, but whenever someone is planning to produce physical goods in masses you can not effort doing stupid misstakes. When you simply put the output of the LLM in to the input of your CNC, Ion-Implanter, Litograph-Machine, Welding Robot, Aribag or Breaking systems. A mistake is going to be sooo fucking expensive that the human in the loop is not an cost factor anymore. And when you do high precision stuff an approximate solution is never sufficient.

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        9 days ago

        I always think years back when Jeep had to issue a recall for like 30k vehicles because a robot missed a fillet weld on a suspension component and QA missed every single one lmfao

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      2·
      7 days ago

      This, exactly!

      I’ll accept a substantial ownership stake in the whole place, in exchange for making a leasurely attempt to pull their asses out of the fire.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
    25·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
    24·
    8 days ago

    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.

    [edit]

    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.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 days ago

      Agreed, I love programming and taking my time to think through problems before I code, but my God these casual AI users at work lap this shit up and can’t be fucked spending an extra minute thinking before they write their code.

  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 days ago

      There’s all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren’t “tech first”, for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn’t know how the brand new machine works.

      Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.

      It’s pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there’s no investors demanding a mass-layoff.

      My suggestion is to find something where you’re on-staff for a company that exists outside of the “digital” realm.

      Resources in The United States

      988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 https://988lifeline.org/

      Veterans Crisis Line 9-8-8, Press 1 https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

      Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/

      TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

      Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) https://translifeline.org/

      (copied from duckduckgo)

      Not mentioned is 911, if you’re actively considering something call them too.

    • man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 days ago

      There are lots of things you can do besides working in a corporate hell that you should consider before you get to suicide. You haven’t even taken out a huge loan to start your own business yet.