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My Entire Profession Is Being Automated Away by AI

by bhartzer on 11/19/24, 6:59 PM with 12 comments

• by cejast on 11/19/24, 8:35 PM

  I went through the process of buying a car recently, and the dealer, before we even begun to negotiate on price, was describing how their pricing system has all 'moved to AI'. I was suspicious, and after querying him about it for a while what he described essentially just boiled down to something a spreadsheet could do.

  Now I don't dispute that AI has and will continue to automate jobs away like this. But I do think we are in an era where the lines between 'classic' automation and AI automation are blurred for quite a lot of people and without any concrete details I suspect this case leans more towards the former.

• by wruza on 11/19/24, 7:45 PM

  Tbh, while feeling sorry for the OP, I never felt sorry or compassionate to such jobs. They feel like a page of code, but it’s the same page of code every day. You learn it and then just do, over and over again. Expecting a career and retirement out of this is akin to expecting it out of uber driving or food delivery. Try getting a job that isn’t a set of reflexes. The comments are right, the fact that it wasn’t automated away before AI is just an economical accident.

• by negus on 11/19/24, 7:20 PM

  seems like a subtle ad for a company mentioned in the first paragraph. would be funny to know if the whole post is written by a LLM