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re: AI-related job news / layoffs
Posted on 2/27/26 at 9:04 am to GumboPot
Posted on 2/27/26 at 9:04 am to GumboPot
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In terms of welders, there is already a lot of welding done robotically
Still, there is an operator or two, sometime more running it.
I used to hate automated welding processes. They are getting much cleaner now. They can fuse a lot of metal quickly, but are still prone to defects....at least the ones we use in my industry. Of course some processes have been around for decades, but the average Joe doesn't know anything about them. When the first automated processes came out, it was the same as we see now. "OMG, robots and automation are taking over". 50+ years later and we still have guys under hoods.
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Posted on 2/27/26 at 9:27 am to UtahCajun
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From what I hear, this country has so many jobs that need doing, we not only have to import labor, we have to swing the border gates wide open.
Was that a justification for opening the border? Like an official one?
I realize you were being cheeky, but finding a job is already bleak.
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Today, 1 in 4 unemployed people, or 1.8 million Americans, have been job searching for over half a year, which in most cases means they’ve also exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. Benefits vary by state but on average replace less than 40% of a person’s previous income.
Long-term unemployment is becoming ‘a status quo’ in today’s job market: It’s a ‘mental war,’ job seeker says
Posted on 2/27/26 at 9:51 am to GumboPot
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LLMs will severally reduce "engineering" jobs that do not interface with Mother Nature, e.g. coders.
LLMs will help engineers but not reduce or eliminate engineering jobs that interface directly with Mother Nature.
What will be interesting is how AI impacts the transportation industry in term of self driving big rigs, taxis, etc.
I'm old enough to remember when people said that IDEs with auto-complete for dot-operator methods was going to de-professionalize the programming field.
I know enough graybeards who recount that people said the same when high-level programming languages became more prevalent.
Instead, what happened is these conveniences increased the demand for programmers rather than decrease it.
Why? Because these advances reduced burdens on drudgery in software development and made more problems solvable.
What makes a programmer, developer, software engineer, et al valuable isn't that they know code. What makes them valuable is they can break down problems into processes and abstract real world problems into digital analogues. The logical thinking and process ordered thought are the skills.
This is why learn to code was always bullshite. The reality is that most people are not very structured and logical thinkers and are not really great at anything other than being asked to take requirements from someone who is and transferring it into code.
This is why AI is necessary. There is a somewhat hard ceiling on the percentage of population who have the aptitude for the field but there is a need for mundane/rote execution that exceeds the amount of incoming junior talent.
This post was edited on 2/27/26 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 2/27/26 at 10:01 am to lsufan1971
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I just downsized our dev team by half. A project that would take a dev 6 weeks to do can now be done in 6 days.
I see stuff that I would have needed weeks to do in 3D modeling, animating and rendering that can be done in minutes with AI. When the "herding cats" problem is ironed out, the entire media industry will be turned upside down.
An old friend who teaches 3D animation and design, said his students are in a panic over what will happen to their future potential.
Glad I'm retired.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 10:03 am to TulsaSooner78
Good. As companies continue to cut costs, those savings will be past down to us as consumers.
Sorry liberals. Maybe find a job that makes you valuable to a company instead of skating by.
Sorry liberals. Maybe find a job that makes you valuable to a company instead of skating by.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 11:34 am to BarnHater
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As companies continue to cut costs, those savings will be past down to us as consumers.
BTW, the correct spelling is "passed".
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:14 pm to tide06
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It’s why I laughed when someone on here said the Dems are dead: come talk to me in 5 years after 25-40% of white collar workers are unemployed in 10 years and we’ll see how dead the socialists are.
You may be right, but if you are then soon after the socialists take over the US dollar will be dead and a lot of Americans will follow suit. You can't start from a baseline of $50 trillion (give or take) of fedgov debt with trillions more being added every year, AND THEN decide to open the spending floodgates. And, presumably reopen the border at the same time. That's the recipe for a quick trip to chaos.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:20 pm to Harry Caray
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It should and it should be funded by taxing the shite out of companies that reduce their workforce because of AI
Da comrade.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:30 pm to wdhalgren
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That's the recipe for a quick trip to chaos.
If you were writing a historical fiction book about the lead up to a global cataclysm youd basically be using our current events:
-Deep political divide? Check
-Deep cultural divide? Check
-Global financial debt crisis? Check
-Job market unrest? Check
-Deep wealth divide? Check
-Crisis among young men not dating? Check
-Reproductive rate crisis? Check
-Media/Propaganda divide? Check
I mean you can go on and on, but if this were a weather forecast it would be an 80 degree humid day in early April in Alabama or Mississippi with a major cold front coming through, the sky would be slightly green and the horizon to the west would be black.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:33 pm to BarnHater
quote:Bless your heart
savings will be past down to us as consumers
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:36 pm to TulsaSooner78
This is going to hit a lot of companies in the next decade.
But another factor that people aren’t considering - a lot of companies also over hired in 2021-2023.
But another factor that people aren’t considering - a lot of companies also over hired in 2021-2023.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:47 pm to Auburn1968
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I see stuff that I would have needed weeks to do in 3D modeling, animating and rendering that can be done in minutes with AI. When the "herding cats" problem is ironed out, the entire media industry will be turned upside down.
An old friend who teaches 3D animation and design, said his students are in a panic over what will happen to their future potential.
Glad I'm retired.
Probably will decrease the need for farming out a bunch of individuals but will still need someone with technical knowledge and creative skills.
My opinion is that AI will probably arrive at people wearing more hats because the rote/mundane work will be farmed off. I've got a few devs on my team that have a rude awakening coming their way because recycling them constantly in PRs is something I could be doing with an AI coding agent instead of a human who needs to piss, shite, eat lunch, and takes PTO. However, the vast majority of my team are firmly "above the AI" in terms of their value add to me as an engineering manager.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 12:59 pm to Diego Ricardo
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What makes a programmer, developer, software engineer, et al valuable isn't that they know code. What makes them valuable is they can break down problems into processes and abstract real world problems into digital analogues. The logical thinking and process ordered thought is the skills.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 2:12 pm to gaetti15
The thing is I think this late 10s/early 20s talk about how boomers won't frick off and retire to uncork natural career progression conveyor belt is partly due to the dotcom and subprime mortgage system shocks stunting junior level hiring in the aughts. Those boomers ended up consolidating a lot of institutional knowledge because no one was hiring and they became too important for the institution to politely show them the door.
That doesn't explain ALL of this trend across many industries but I think it is some of it. Especially in tech.
That doesn't explain ALL of this trend across many industries but I think it is some of it. Especially in tech.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 5:42 pm to 4cubbies
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I realize you were being cheeky, but finding a job is already bleak.
I am sure it is. Our society has changed much in the past 40-50 years. There is some truth to "they do jobs Americans do not want to do" and quite frankly that is sad. It says a lot about us as a nation and not the right thing. There are tons of jobs out there. Most of us feel that they are beneath us.
Hell, I post on the OT. I KNOW they are beneath me....
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:23 pm to UtahCajun
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There are tons of jobs out there. Most of us feel that they are beneath us.
Do we feel the job is beneath us, or the pay is beneath us?
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Hell, I post on the OT. I KNOW they are beneath me....
My wealthy friend
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:38 pm to tide06
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If you were writing a historical fiction book about the lead up to a global cataclysm youd basically be using our current events:
Not long ago I was listening to a financial advisor saying, "we don't see much risk" in the current investing environment. It honestly wasn't my intent, but I think he felt insulted by the exchange that followed.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:43 pm to BarnHater
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Past down
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:44 pm to NIH
You know he’s this board’s elGaucho, right? My favorite part is all of you missing it.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 8:18 pm to TulsaSooner78
My job permanently transitioned to WFH in March 2020 when COVID hit. I’m pretty sure that AI could do my job at some point, but there’s licensing involved in many states so I’m not sure that AI could be licensed.
I’ve only got another year or two left, not worried about AI taking my spot. I wouldn’t want to be in my 30s or 40s right now, that’s for sure.
I’ve only got another year or two left, not worried about AI taking my spot. I wouldn’t want to be in my 30s or 40s right now, that’s for sure.
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