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Primo2000 t1_itw0d9b wrote

Reply to comment by AdditionalPizza in Lots of posts here talk about how AI advancements and automation are going to inevitably replace jobs. As someone without interest or acumen in programming or IT, what sort of "future-proof" field(s) should I be looking into as a way to maintain (for lack of a better term) viability? by doctordaedalus

Not a single manager would allow pushing automated code to production servers so i think people with programing skills will still be needed even if most of the code will be automated in the future, to review and to troubleschoot etc. There is much more to IT project then just writing code.

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Recent-Fish-9233 t1_itw1kdd wrote

Yea but that still reduces the workload a ton so there will be way too many programmers for the number of jobs.

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Primo2000 t1_itwfs5u wrote

Or maybe there will be right ammount of programmers, right now a lot of projects cant start because managers cant find devs and infrastructure/devops people so i wouldnt be suprised that with reduced cost and team size actually a lot more projects could start.

Same with manufacturing automation, we need to remebmer that a lot of people still dont have fridges, washing machines etc so there is a lot of room to grow a cost will decrease

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AdditionalPizza t1_itw9irw wrote

Yeah this is what I'm saying. People will argue that you can just keep outputting more and more with extra productivity but that doesn't make sense economically. Shareholders don't care where the profit comes from for that quarter, and paying fewer wages is a good boost to net profit.

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