| > AI can do [intellectual work] well You are living in a radically different world than I am. AI-generated content is noticably shitty in almost every sphere. Improvement probably will come, but it's pretty damn far off from acceptable (let alone good) right now. Literally every time I've tried to use it for coding problems, it's hallucinated a non-existent function/option or given me something that _looks_ correct but has a fundamental flaw, and AI prose has a distinctive and jarring tone. That said, taking your premises as assumed - well, you have two choices. You can "uplevel" - not in terms of skill, but in terms of "where in the stack" you operate. Instead of creating thought-work outputs, be the one that wrangles and directs the AI-tools (and catches their errors and false assumptions - of which there will be many! In effect, make yourself a Tech Lead of a bunch of developers, where the developers happen to be AIs instead of people). Or, you can opt out of the technological space and do something that can still only be done by an embodied human - like in-person services, creation/upkeep/maintenance of physical objects or systems. (This is approaching this from the perspective of "how do I keep remaining valuable and employable to earn a living wage?", rather than "how do I continue to find fulfillment and meaning in my life?", which still hasn't changed - there are plenty of people who are better than me at the things I find enjoyable, and my enjoyment of them wouldn't change if AI also surpassed me. See /u/quasse's comment for a better presentation of this idea) |
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