Someone wrote on X this post:
I have been hearing this same line since 2020.
ChatGPT released – it will take our jobs.
DALL•E released – it will take our jobs.
Midjourney released – it will take our jobs.
GPT-4 released – it will take our jobs.
Bard released – it will take our jobs.
Sora released – it will take our jobs.
Devin released – it will take our jobs.
GPT-4o released – it will take our jobs.
Llama 3.1 released – it will take our jobs.
No AI will take our jobs. It will make us highly productive.
That’s it.
Interesting point of view, not saying it is right or wrong but my observations are:
- from personal experience, my productivity went so high that I won’t need many extra employees anymore. I am hiring less. I think at some point people will start to fire, and since others are also hiring less, I think the jobs are being taken, but it takes time until it’s in the news
Only this month, I wrote around 15,000 lines of code, as a non-technical (okay, semi-technical) founder.
- even if it’s completely fine right now, there is a trend worth preparing for. As an analogy, It’s like two nations who are at the cusp of a war. The war rarely happens overnight. There is preparation, planning, series of events,… just because there are no fires over our heads and our house is not ruined, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t prepare basic food, and think about what we will do if it happens. (As an analogy it might be extreme but take it only as a metaphor)
Some of my friends said that this is very pessimistic, but I don't see preparing for potential future scenarios as pessimistic but logical.
One of the examples of changes coming sooner or later:
I laid off entire sales & marketing department of my enterprise SaaS a year ago.
— John Rush (@johnrushx) July 24, 2024
My goal was to fully automate their work with AI and switch into organic and inbound traffic. They didn’t believe it was possible and didn’t wanna make it happen.
12 months later we have more…
Only time will say is AI the new calculator and computer, or it's a bit more impactful.
But until then, this is the question I ask occasionally when meeting with my friends:
I don't know if I wasn't building my company, how I would future proof myself. If I start tomorrow, what I need to learn/build/do to be resilient to the AI and automation?
Sadly enough, even though I heard some good answers, nothing convinced me yet. Any ideas? Tell me in the comments or reach out to me on LinkedIn/X @thehamedmp.
