[Peroni]

>And it’s decimated other professions like manual agriculture, assembly line jobs, etc.

When Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line, production went from hundreds of cars to thousands. It had a profoundly positive impact on the secondary market, leading to an overall increase in job creation.

I've yet to see any "AI is gonna take your job" articles that even attempt to consider the impact on the secondary market. It seems their argument is that it'll be AI all the way down which is utter nonsense.

[naijaboiler]

Humans beings can not run out of economically valuable things we can do for one another. Technology can change what that thing is profoundly though.

[monknomo]

What do you think the secondary market for knowledge work is?

[cootsnuck]

More knowledge work. It's disheartening for me to see so many people think so little about their own abilities.

There's a reason we can still spot the sterile whiff of AI written content. When you set coding aside, the evidence just hasn't shown up yet that AI agents can reliably replace anything more than the most formulaic and uninspired tasks. At least with how the tech is currently being implemented...

(There's a reason these big companies spend very very little time talking about the power of businesses using their own data to fine-tune or train their own models...)