coding and analysis tasks that were completely impossible for AI two years ago are suddenly doable using AI with some handholding and verification.

Tasks that were a stretch two years ago are easy today.

The releases earlier this month of the newest versions of Claude and ChatGPT are massive leaps from where they were previously. I'm flat out rattled, and trying to come up with contingency plans if / when my job not only goes away, but the entire white collar labor market is imploded. I've been forced to completely reevaluate how far I think AI job loss can go and how quickly it might happen.

This is absolutely getting scary what the cutting edge AI tools can do.

It's not just tech jobs. Accounting, finance, general administration, marketing - just about any job with a standard common tasks or basic analysis done on a computer - you are in serious trouble in the next two years. These latest advances have firmly changed my mind to when - not if - it's happening. The only factor that might slow it down is the cost and effort of setup and implementation (integrating AI tools with a company's existing processes and data).

It’s a force multiplier, but for people who understand it, and understand the systems it’s being applied to.

More tech savvy and highly educated people will be needed, not less. It’s the low skilled office jobs that are in jeopardy IMO.

At least not consistently or reliably. With a lot of oversight and intervening it can speed up certain software development tasks, with certain tradeoffs in quality and maintainability.

I use AI as a software developer every day and that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

There is one, however, I personally enjoy.

retired from them for 23 years and they haven't kicked in a single penny for a raise. IBM used to give cost-of-living increases to both its employees and retirees on a yearly basis.

Companies have spent billions of dollars building up infrastructure on hyped promises that are proving for more difficult to deliver than what was promised. And some of these high-flying dorks are going to crash.

Some stock prices crashing and some individual companies going belly up isn't going to stop what's coming.

A few years ago we were laughing at the bad hands and extra fingers of AI image generation.

Now it can crank out video that is difficult to distinguish from reality.

The tech will keep improving, and isn't going away.

They built the cash registers my grocery store used in the 70's.

We had those manual ones, that would clang and ring as the numbers would roll around. Going electric digital with IBM was like Jetson level stuff.

BTW - Where is my flying car???!!!

hiring binge for his team. A lot of analytics involved in that work, but obviously also must need human employees.

He has explained to me a zillion times what he actually does but I still don’t really understand.

I do know that they are very concerned of the damage AI might do to irt cyber security attacks.