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re: Something big is happening. The OT just refuses to acknowledge it
Posted on 2/14/26 at 5:57 am to sidewalkside
Posted on 2/14/26 at 5:57 am to sidewalkside
AI doesn't know how I like to be touched
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Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:01 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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the AI version of GeorgeTheGreek
Thanks for the nightmare fuel
Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:08 am to Lou Loomis
quote:Why wouldn’t AI perform those jobs too?
The economy will evolve and new jobs will become available.
That is the fallacy of the “new jobs will just be created” argument.
This isn’t the creation of a new tech to replace an old tech.
This is the replacement of the workers themselves.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:14 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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When the AI version of GeorgeTheGreek starts posting just watch out
Will it at least do away with shite takes?
Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:26 am to sidewalkside
Believe me, I've tried extensively and continue to try to get AI to do my job for me. It cant.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:47 am to sidewalkside
I have wondered what happens when there are no entry-level jobs and eventually experience. At some point, no one will have the experience and knowledge to ensure that AI is providing correct answers, who will be able to take the AI results to a courtroom, a regulatory agency or a boardroom.
Will discovery of new things be left to AI? Will humans have knowledge to provide to AI to make it better?
At some point, will AI be the "end all, be all"?
I am retired so it won't impact me directly but I still watch ..... and worry.
Will discovery of new things be left to AI? Will humans have knowledge to provide to AI to make it better?
At some point, will AI be the "end all, be all"?
I am retired so it won't impact me directly but I still watch ..... and worry.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 6:59 am to sidewalkside
Hard for me not to roll my eyes at all this ai fear porn. Go to one of these AI agents and ask it to build a integrated website like tigerdroppings.com. It fails miserably.
Is it a tool to supplement work? Help with mundane tasks? Yes. I use paid version chat gpt everyday. I also have to correct it numerous times. It still requires qc and at a level that saying its going to take over the world is bit laughable.
Is it a tool to supplement work? Help with mundane tasks? Yes. I use paid version chat gpt everyday. I also have to correct it numerous times. It still requires qc and at a level that saying its going to take over the world is bit laughable.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 7:03 am to TigersnJeeps
By the time I retired half of job was stats and reports for wheels in other locations and rewriting procedures for whatever the current flavor happened to be. I think all of that could be done by AI.
Several years ago i ran into a lady I went to school with and she was an oceanographer for NASA. I asked her what she did and she said, like everyone else, I sit in front of a computer all day.
I think if you're young and your job entails sitting in front of a computer all day, you may want to starting thing about whether AI can take your place
Several years ago i ran into a lady I went to school with and she was an oceanographer for NASA. I asked her what she did and she said, like everyone else, I sit in front of a computer all day.
I think if you're young and your job entails sitting in front of a computer all day, you may want to starting thing about whether AI can take your place
Posted on 2/14/26 at 7:34 am to sidewalkside
It's serious. I have a straight A student and instead of encouraging him to go into electrical engineering and get a 4 year degree, I'm considering telling him to go be an electrician.
For years we've send entry level jobs offshore to India, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. We hire foreign electrical engineers because they're willing to work for cheaper. Now with AI and all those guys have the seniority and experience, they're the only ones who will know how to use it, or whether AI is BSing them or not.
Foreign workers will hold all those jobs, not our children. We will be shut out entirely.
ETA: Before anyone says, that's just business, look who are the CEOs of these tech companies.They've raised in the ranks because they are the most knowledgeable and competent now. It's a major, major problem. Killing knowledge based careers isn't sticking it to the liberals - it's a national security risk.
For years we've send entry level jobs offshore to India, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. We hire foreign electrical engineers because they're willing to work for cheaper. Now with AI and all those guys have the seniority and experience, they're the only ones who will know how to use it, or whether AI is BSing them or not.
Foreign workers will hold all those jobs, not our children. We will be shut out entirely.
ETA: Before anyone says, that's just business, look who are the CEOs of these tech companies.They've raised in the ranks because they are the most knowledgeable and competent now. It's a major, major problem. Killing knowledge based careers isn't sticking it to the liberals - it's a national security risk.
This post was edited on 2/14/26 at 7:38 am
Posted on 2/14/26 at 7:41 am to sidewalkside
My son has a very niche job where he services mechanical time locks in bank vaults including the FED locations around the country some of which are 100+ years old.
Like to see some goofy ai bot try to take that over.
Like to see some goofy ai bot try to take that over.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:15 am to sidewalkside
yay, sidewalk’s weekly AI doom and gloom thread!
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:25 am to sidewalkside
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I’ve been posting about this and almost universally the OT laughs and mocks and says “it can’t take my job” but take it from an AI developer who even blown away at the pace and improvement in AI. And if it’s TLDR listen to it. Some of you will be fine if you’re already retired and have a good nest egg to live on. But if you’re still working and NEED that income…pay attention.
It looks like a good read. I read the first part of it. I, too, have worked on an AI project that I know will result is the loss of many jobs. I decided to retire before the project completed.
But I disagree that retired people with a good nest egg will be "fine". If only retired people have money, the unemployed masses will find a way to take it from them.
Quote from the article:
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For years, AI had been improving steadily. Then in 2025, new techniques for building these models unlocked a much faster pace of progress. This year, something clicked. Not like a light switch… more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.
I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just… appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.
At my job, the bosses were making me use AI to write proposals for projects. I would usually need to edit them afterward, but for the most part they did a pretty good job. That is part of what stimulated me to decide to retire. Get out while the getting is good. I figure I can enjoy my nest egg for about 5 more years before massive societal change will make life a lot more difficult.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:27 am to Long Ball Larry
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AI doesn't know how I like to be touched
But it can learn.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:30 am to CAD703X
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My son has a very niche job where he services mechanical time locks in bank vaults including the FED locations around the country some of which are 100+ years old.
Like to see some goofy ai bot try to take that over.
AI will be able to direct a person much less experienced than your son on how to do what he currently does.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:36 am to TulsaSooner78
quote:maybe. But it's not low hanging fruit and to feed various 100 year old mechanical clocks into a database is probably not at the top of the list for AI to consume.
will be able to direct a person much less experienced than your son on how to do what he currently does.
I guess I can see them scanning old schematics in but you still have to identify worn out springs and rounded gear teeth and it tastes an apprenticeship and muscle memory to pull those things apart and put back together.
Maybe someone untrained could do it but it's definitely a skill based job.
This post was edited on 2/14/26 at 8:39 am
Posted on 2/14/26 at 8:42 am to sidewalkside
It seems to me that two economy feedback loops might kick in if too many jobs go AI.
1. If businesses go all AI and fire all humans, what humans will be left to buy their services or products? The feasibility of businesses will cease.
2. I've been using no-added-cost AI agents for programming. Over the last two months the error rate has shot way up while the reply eloquence shot way up. AI developers may be dumbing down the free stuff to force higher-cost agents on us. Data centers don't operate for free. AI will soon be more expensive than inefficient humans.
1. If businesses go all AI and fire all humans, what humans will be left to buy their services or products? The feasibility of businesses will cease.
2. I've been using no-added-cost AI agents for programming. Over the last two months the error rate has shot way up while the reply eloquence shot way up. AI developers may be dumbing down the free stuff to force higher-cost agents on us. Data centers don't operate for free. AI will soon be more expensive than inefficient humans.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 9:55 pm to TaderSalad
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Will it at least do away with shite takes?
It will optimize them.
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