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AI Is Coming for Your Job, Much Faster Than Anyone Thought

by methuselah_in on 6/10/25, 4:14 AM with 17 comments

• by iamthemonster on 6/10/25, 6:21 AM

  For the rest of my life, AI will be coming for my job and full-self-driving cars will be just around the corner.

• by vouaobrasil on 6/10/25, 4:49 AM

  The entire point of AI is not to make people more productive, but to trade productivity in the short-term for even more automation that goes beyond the point of diminishing returns so that those at the top can accumulate even more wealth. Big-tech corporations act as attractants for those who love power and money above any other concern and they certainly are not creating any tools to help anyone.

  When a small company makes a product, they are happy to make something useful in exchange for a living. When big tech makes something, you are the product and they just want to use their economies of scale to squeeze you dry, making you think they have something useful.

  People talk about AI now as if it is a great tool for them. Maybe it is, but in some years it won't really be a great tool at all except at keeping power in the hands of the most wealthy.

• by spaceman_2020 on 6/10/25, 10:30 AM

  I don't know whether it's coming for my job or not, but I've found it incredibly useful for dealing with situations I'm completely unfamiliar with.

  For example, I have a small hobby business with a few friends. One of them suggested that we put up a stall at a major upcoming exhibition.

  I've never done one of these before, so I asked GPT o3 to help me figure out what instructions to share with my fabricator. The output was so good that the fabricator said I'd made his job 5x easier.

  Once I got the 3d render, I asked o3 to help me figure out how to draw more attention. It gave me display ideas for different budgets, copy ideas, and layout ideas.

  The display ideas were fantastic and it would have taken a few hours of brainstorming to come up with them.

  The copy ideas were also really good. I've worked as a copywriter in the past and gun to my head, I could maybe get about 10% more juice out of them. For the average business, it was perfectly fine at first pass.

• by camillomiller on 6/10/25, 6:28 AM

  If this is true, can someone even remotely explain why boards and companies don’t see the existential risk this would pose to the economy? When the people that buy things and other companies that buy things can’t buy anymore, who gains from it?

• by aziytuiam on 6/10/25, 6:27 PM

  When OpenAI has an outage - all your colleagues just stop working at once. The price will go up, and you will be stuck, when half your teams are machines. Meanwhile your customers are out of work, and your business tanks. The problem is not that this will happen, the problem is your boss thinks this will happen and is no longer hiring.

• by ringeryless on 6/10/25, 10:32 AM

  Dear Author, AI is coming for YOUR job. The doomsday marketing approach is getting rather old, IMO.