25-year-old Anthropic employee says she may only have 3 years left to work because AI will replace her
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25-year-old Anthropic employee says she may only have 3 years left to work because AI will replace her[^] “I am 25. The next three years might be the last few years that I work,” the Gen Zer wrote.
As far as other online jobs are concerned, I agree with the article. Most middle management positions are likely to be replaced by AI in the not too distant future. Where legal documents and software development are concerned, the problem is not necessarily writing the contract (code) but specifying what needs to be written. Those people who make their living by making small changes to existing contracts (code) are right to fear for their jobs. Those who specify new contracts (code) are likely to be in even more demand.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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As far as other online jobs are concerned, I agree with the article. Most middle management positions are likely to be replaced by AI in the not too distant future. Where legal documents and software development are concerned, the problem is not necessarily writing the contract (code) but specifying what needs to be written. Those people who make their living by making small changes to existing contracts (code) are right to fear for their jobs. Those who specify new contracts (code) are likely to be in even more demand.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Maintenance programmers are not likely to be replaced by AI in the next decade. I am given to believe that some organizations are still using IBM 7040 code emulated on ancient IBM 370s. Other organizations are emulating IBM 370 COBOL code on newer machines.
Much of this legacy code is so convoluted and patched, that only a live person can understand it and fix it. The documentation of the original functionality is often lost and, if available, usually has not been updated to reflect the bug fixes, enhancements, and other code changes.
What AI may do, however, is quickly generate new replacement code for the entire package. It will have difficulties in places where the original programmers relied upon a side effect, rather than straight-line code, to accomplish something. Many of these side effects are not well documented.
AI will excel at regression testing.
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25-year-old Anthropic employee says she may only have 3 years left to work because AI will replace her[^] “I am 25. The next three years might be the last few years that I work,” the Gen Zer wrote.
No matter how advanced technology becomes, there will always be work to do. It might be different from past jobs, but the work will exist. I'd advise the historically ignorant Gen Z employee to just learn new skills if AI technology makes her old skills obsolete (which won't necessarily happen in the 3 years she predicts because the most technology forecasts are wrong).