| So many things wrong with this article. >> The popular horse-switching fantasy answer is retraining. “Go back to school and become an engineer.” In theory, yes. In practice, rarely. The jump from an assembly-line worker to an engineer requires years of schooling and a different educational foundation. Sure...and after "years of schooling" that work will also get taken by AI, since learning is accelerating. Remember 6yrs ago they told laid off people to learn to code? Then remember 3yrs ago they said to learn to prompt engineer. Unfortunately the tech moves faster than retraining for many. >> So many things that we could do to help our customers. Author assumes the customer is still in good shape. Not a great assumption, the value chain is being squeezed and disintermediated. >> Which is why the idea that we’re somehow going to run out of work strikes me as absurd. It feels like a theory written by people who haven’t actually spent much time doing the work in the first place — serving customers, building products, and running businesses. There is always more that could be done. Sure, there is always work. Not sure what the ROI is on the work though, is it worth paying someone to do? If so, why wasnt it done before? |