I wouldn’t expect a substack blogger to be concerned with real jobs
SleeplessInPlano on
lol.
Maximilianne on
How of job anxiety is due to the job search process ? And how much populism can be eliminated by making the job search process less shitty ? Therefore I propose fully automated AI job search agents, if job searching must be shitty at least allow the human to take a break and have the AI do it
Negative_Scarcity315 on
Claude Code max subscription: $200/mo and performs better than the average software developer. If you’re not worried, if you’re not trying to learn spec driven development to keep your job or if you’re not trying to create your business with these tools, you probably already have a fully paid off house, no kids and enough savings for retirement. Economics say people won’t starve, rise in GDP will mean cheaper products, more taxes and more wealth distribution, and that’s all correct, but in the meantime a lot of professionals will lose their status and their lifestyle.
elninost0rm on
I find the article compelling. I think he’s correct that labor substitution will be difficult at scale. ADOPTION is going to be the main issue. Good example, I work in the federal government, and right now, as of February 18th 2026, our AI offerings consist of… A chatbot that is clearly a wrapper of an old ass ChatGPT version. I think it said its data is current as of mid-2024 or something.
Saying nothing of all of our proprietary systems and insanely old mainframe. Developing in-house tools and agents that will be even remotely compatible with this stuff is going to take years, and the amount of compliance that will be required (probably via reskilling) will eat up some of the anticipated attrition/losses when we DO finally get there.
Bandit_Heeler2026 on
In 1800, 80-90% of Americans worked on farms. In 2020, under 2% of Americans worked on farms.
Tookoofox on
Is this sub going to become a AI shilling sub?
Le1bn1z on
Automation and creating productivity from technological improvement is good, actually.
In the first world, the poor are underserviced and the government lacks key capacity precisely in the fields where AI could be most deployable.
Creative destruction is going to creatively destruct, and the world will not end.
I hope AI does turn out to be the equivalent of 100 million people entering the world workforce, because that would be good.
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I wouldn’t expect a substack blogger to be concerned with real jobs
lol.
How of job anxiety is due to the job search process ? And how much populism can be eliminated by making the job search process less shitty ? Therefore I propose fully automated AI job search agents, if job searching must be shitty at least allow the human to take a break and have the AI do it
Claude Code max subscription: $200/mo and performs better than the average software developer. If you’re not worried, if you’re not trying to learn spec driven development to keep your job or if you’re not trying to create your business with these tools, you probably already have a fully paid off house, no kids and enough savings for retirement. Economics say people won’t starve, rise in GDP will mean cheaper products, more taxes and more wealth distribution, and that’s all correct, but in the meantime a lot of professionals will lose their status and their lifestyle.
I find the article compelling. I think he’s correct that labor substitution will be difficult at scale. ADOPTION is going to be the main issue. Good example, I work in the federal government, and right now, as of February 18th 2026, our AI offerings consist of… A chatbot that is clearly a wrapper of an old ass ChatGPT version. I think it said its data is current as of mid-2024 or something.
Saying nothing of all of our proprietary systems and insanely old mainframe. Developing in-house tools and agents that will be even remotely compatible with this stuff is going to take years, and the amount of compliance that will be required (probably via reskilling) will eat up some of the anticipated attrition/losses when we DO finally get there.
In 1800, 80-90% of Americans worked on farms. In 2020, under 2% of Americans worked on farms.
Is this sub going to become a AI shilling sub?
Automation and creating productivity from technological improvement is good, actually.
In the first world, the poor are underserviced and the government lacks key capacity precisely in the fields where AI could be most deployable.
Creative destruction is going to creatively destruct, and the world will not end.
I hope AI does turn out to be the equivalent of 100 million people entering the world workforce, because that would be good.
I can’t stand the “hand knitted hats” logic.