• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    As long as they understand those electricians and plumbers should be charging them 5-10x what they are charging now. If their AI can’t do it, it’s gone from blue collar to bespoke work.

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    What, can’t the AI robots do it? I’m ready for my Jetsons lifestyle where I do 2 hours worth of work a month and have a robot maid.

    What’s all this plumbing that suddenly need to doing?

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    2 hours ago

    It’s never too late to go to trade school. We have way too many CEOs anyway, so it’d be a good moment for him to think about his future career.

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    2 hours ago

    What went wrong before that we didn’t need them? Why now, to build datacenters?

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    7 hours ago

    Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.

    I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we prepare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don’t need everybody that’s currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.

    There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can’t do yet. But they aren’t safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn’t change and then people absolutely won’t be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it’s only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.

    Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you’re creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.

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      5 hours ago

      Next up: pop artists opinion on climate issues and global politics

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    21 hours ago

    It annoys me to no end every single dumbass statement these idiot CEOs make is treated like news