I'm thinking pastry chef or line cook.
by jareds on 5/7/25, 3:23 PM
I won't have to switch careers since I'm a software engineer instead of a developer that does nothing but implement specifications with no creativity or design work. I will have to keep up with the changing technology landscape though like I have been for my entire career.
by benoau on 5/7/25, 11:18 PM
Software, but not for someone else - it's time to be the primary beneficiary of our own work. The jobs are evaporating because AI can amplify our individual efforts into something much greater, and it can do it for us by ourselves too.
by jotjotzzz on 5/7/25, 6:52 PM
AI will create more jobs as it replaces tedious ones. There will always be more innovation and work, so don't worry! This is the same fear as the Internet age back in the days replacing stores, TV, media, etc. We will always continue to improve, and nothing stays stagnant -- there's always something new to discover.
by pfdietz on 5/7/25, 4:04 PM
There will be an enormous market cleaning up the mess AI use will leave behind.
by quintes on 5/7/25, 7:07 PM
PCMag Australia has this headline
Bill Gates Says Humans Won't Be Needed for 'Most Things' in the AI Age.
Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnAz_fYzW8
“Will we need humans”
“Not for most things. We’ll decide..” rambling on
I’m not going to be negative just leave that there.
by paulcole on 5/7/25, 5:32 PM
> I'm thinking pastry chef or line cook.
Have you done these jobs before? Or is this more like a programmer’s dream of some fantasy camp version of manual labor?
by cornhole on 5/8/25, 3:26 AM
I’ll be an expat taking advantage of lower income nations
by alecsm on 5/7/25, 5:26 PM
The 10 lines of code I write daily will be written by AI and I'll keep doing all the other work.
by sumeruchat on 5/7/25, 4:08 PM
Shoe cleaning is like coding, you start by spotting surface dirt (easy bugs), then scrub out the tough stains (edge cases), and finish by polishing everything up (optimization). Both demand precision, patience, and a sharp eye for detail.
by taylodl on 5/7/25, 4:57 PM
When AI replaces developers, it might affect around 5% to 10% of IT staff. Even if AI could develop robust code from scant and inconsistent requirements, it would likely only replace up to 50% of those developers. This would result in a 2.5% to 5% reduction in IT staff. That coincides with what CrowdStrike is laying off as discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916858. I imagine we're going to see a lot of announcements like these over the next couple of years.
by alganet on 5/8/25, 7:16 AM
Busker, cronic author, chef, racing car driver, language teacher, tourist guide, YouTube pseudo-celebrity, project manager, spiritual guide, advisor, dog walker, gigolo, clown.
So many options!
by charchica on 5/7/25, 3:22 PM
Parallel parking but clearly not even that is safe.
by bitbasher on 5/7/25, 8:36 PM
I'm going to buy a boat and become a pirate.
by plmr on 5/7/25, 6:30 PM
The last remaining job: captcha solver for AI.
by crabsand on 5/7/25, 8:46 PM
I'll help AI to replace developers (or lawyers or doctors or managers...) in better ways
by thrwrw on 5/7/25, 10:50 PM
AI won't replace developers, it will make people think they can do things that seemed otherwise out of their reach (a.k.a. vibe coding) resulting in more work to people who actually know what they are doing.
by buggerme on 5/7/25, 8:52 PM
Already veering back to EE, energy based models, mutations of electromagnetic geometry in the machine, that recreates software states through energy based regulation.
Gonna be a long time before infrastructure makes itself.
by ryandv on 5/7/25, 7:18 PM
Bartender or waitstaff. Or wait, I guess they are supposed to be the ones coming to replace me with AI...?
by mikece on 5/7/25, 3:16 PM
Containment vessel welding.
by rsynnott on 5/8/25, 11:12 AM
I'll make the same career switch that I made when 'no-code', 5GLs, and, er, that Sun drag and drop flowchart thing, can't remember what it's called, made developers obsolete.
"This will make developers obsolete" is fairly standard marketing and crops up a couple times a decade (this has been going on for a while; COBOL was marketed this way!) At a certain point, it's an industry crying wolf, honestly.
by rudiksz on 5/7/25, 7:45 PM
AI code fixer.
by revskill on 5/7/25, 7:59 PM
Autocompleter can replace copyers.
by FroshKiller on 5/7/25, 9:00 PM
I'll probably get a job with the city cleaning up all the poop from the flying pigs.
by ace2pace on 5/8/25, 1:25 AM
Career? I would just own several AI products
by akulbe on 5/7/25, 11:41 PM
Ugh. Please. Get
off the hypetrain already.
Developers aren't going to be replaced by AI. Have you seen how BAD this stuff is?
It might assist you in certain use cases, but it's not going to replace you.
"AI" is neither artificial, nor intelligent.
It's next token prediction, and it's still laughable what things it comes up with.
It will *NOT* replace a human developer who knows what they're doing and is actually capable of reason.