Raw LLM Responses

It’s going to be brutal, but I’ve stopped trying to warn anyone because they look at me like I have 3 heads. I’m focused on a few things: 1. My immediate safety net UBI isn’t coming, at least not immediately. I’m predicting an uneven displacement of roles due to AI. Some sectors will get hit hard at first, others will take longer. It’s hard to tell right now how much of this is companies laying off due to offshoring and the perception that they are far ahead on AI automation. I work with AI daily, and there are still some barriers to overcome for AI agents to really take off at enterprises. But that won’t last long. What most people need is enough savings to ride out an undefined period of upheaval. Maybe 3-5 years. My biggest fear is that it will be a slow burn of job losses vs a huge push. If you get caught up in the early rounds and can’t find any work to transition to, you’re screwed. I’m focusing on paying off the mortgage and having a safety net left to cover at least 5 years of transition. But our burn rate will be insanely low with zero debt, so we should be able to stretch our savings. 2. Professional development Becoming a generalist who can handle a wide variety of work with AI/leaning into building and maintaining agents. Like I said above, it won’t be a situation where everyone is out of work overnight. It’s going to be a perfect storm of offshoring, layoffs truly due to automation, layoffs blamed on automation but are actually just offshoring, companies freezing hiring, and fewer opportunities across the board. It’ll become hyper competitive to earn a living until that’s not possible anymore and everything is automated. My plan is to try and ride it out as long as possible. After that, I don’t think anyone can tell you a viable way of making a living that couldn’t be automated. And the “go into trades” people forget that trades need customers. People aren’t going to be able to afford it.