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I saw on the news that big tech firms such as Google and Amazon are firing IT workers because AI makes them unnecessary.
Anyone here work in IT? Are you concerned about future prospects for job in this field?
You are going to need to give us a citation to this, so we can see exactly what jobs are being eliminated, or is this just talk? I don't consider customer service help desk chat bots replacing workers to be IT work.
I've been in the industry for a long time and manage a group. There isn't a single IT or software job that can be successfully replaced by a software application. Yes, you can use ChatGPT to write a few lines of software code, but you could just as easily prior to this do a search online to find examples of the problem that needs to be solved. Before that, those examples were in the better IT books. Those are all tools and resources, but you still need an experienced software developer to be driving the process. Will this happen someday, perhaps, but I don't see this happening now.
You are going to need to give us a citation to this, so we can see exactly what jobs are being eliminated, or is this just talk? I don't consider customer service help desk chat bots replacing workers to be IT work.
I've been in the industry for a long time and manage a group. There isn't a single IT or software job that can be successfully replaced by a software application. Yes, you can use ChatGPT to write a few lines of software code, but you could just as easily prior to this do a search online to find examples of the problem that needs to be solved. Before that, those examples were in the better IT books. Those are all tools and resources, but you still need an experienced software developer to be driving the process. Will this happen someday, perhaps, but I don't see this happening now.
Thanks for providing a link to the story. It doesn't come across that AI is eliminating software jobs. They are trying to make a story around the popular buzzword of "AI". The industry has a demand for more developers in AI and less in other things. The types of jobs being cut are not being performed by AI as their replacement. If Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos/Amazon said something like, "We have developed an AI model called XYZ, which has made the labor of 100 software engineers working on network security and database redundant..." then it would be a story about replacing software developers with AI. Even in the story being reported in that video, the news anchor says "...may...". There is no clear cause and effect.
To answer your big question, I have no concerns about AI replacing IT jobs at all.
LLMs are making every software engineer much more efficient, so there is probably a need for fewer of them to accomplish the same work. Software like Github copilot being integrated directly into your IDE is a game changer for debugging and writing efficient code.
AI isn't taking over IT jobs. It is causing disruption in what tech is being invested in. You can think of it as Netflix killing Blockbuster or Napster killing Tower Records. A lot of jobs will disappear but new jobs will take their place. Everything will get more complicated and people on the lower end of the IQ spectrum will be even more screwed.
AI can take over *some* IT jobs but it applies to any job that has repetition and doesn't require intelligent controls.
Why can't they post that majority of management jobs are replaceable with AI but nobody is pushing that.
A lot of management jobs are nothing but approvers and delegation and AI can easily monitor workers productivity, approve work orders, delegate workload, and contact other parties.
AI will probably eliminate many jobs in the future, IT jobs included.
IT layoffs have lead downsizing for the past year. In my opinion, it is due to post-Covid inflationary economic forces, not AI. Also, a lot of tech items were over-purchased during the Covid lockdowns, so sales are temporarily lower. They pulled demand forward during Covid, creating a glut today.
Startup capitol has dried up a great deal for tech, and that is also part of the problem. I think many institutional investors are keeping dry powder rather than funding tech startups.
I have not heard that mass implementation of AI at tech firms has suddenly caused the elimination of IT jobs at current. Not yet anyhow. I don't doubt it is coming, but I have not heard that yet.
AI will probably eliminate many jobs in the future, IT jobs included.
IT layoffs have lead downsizing for the past year. In my opinion, it is due to post-Covid inflationary economic forces, not AI. Also, a lot of tech items were over-purchased during the Covid lockdowns, so sales are temporarily lower. They pulled demand forward during Covid, creating a glut today.
Startup capitol has dried up a great deal for tech, and that is also part of the problem. I think many institutional investors are keeping dry powder rather than funding tech startups.
I have not heard that mass implementation of AI at tech firms has suddenly caused the elimination of IT jobs at current. Not yet anyhow. I don't doubt it is coming, but I have not heard that yet.
I think the danger is that AI basically becomes being able to tend to itself - essentially autonomous.
Something like a tractor means you needed fewer works to "plow the field," but there were other jobs running the tractor, building them, mechanics to keep them running, etc. Human input and labor was still needed.
That is probably not going to be the case with advanced AI down the line.
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