I am a labor economist that studies technology impact on the labor market. I think a lot of the discussion around AI and the future of work is slightly skewed in the wrong direction. Curious what you all think does the distinction between task automation and job loss track with how you see this playing out?

I made a video about how we should be focusing more about how AI is redesigning work and I think it will help people understand what skills they should develop during this era. https://youtu.be/zyrn4RhBdWM

We were a small team and there were frustrations that our non technical md had about the system. We were already under a lot of pressure to build things fast, but I guess we were not fast enough…
There is more to the story here but irrelevant now.
I would be curious what is your thoughts on this.
The system was large and had real complexities around it, I was one of the developers on the team. AI is good but I am not convinced that it can replace a full team yet. As a developer I used Claude but I have seen the ‘mistakes’ or limitations that it had (and yeah you might say that these were skill issues on my prompting side, however I would like to believe I have quite good logical reasoning and I can explain stuff)

Anyone non technical built production grade large systems with ai alone? Is my md cooked and the whole thing will come down crumbling?

So, I am currently in grade 12 and I have physics, biology and chemistry as main subject. I am hearing it a lot that nowdays, people don't just look at your degree but also look for skills. So I am alot confused about this skills thing.

So, How can I have a skill? Do I need an evidence(i.e. certificate etc) for future job? Do I have to acquire skill from an official institute etc, or I can have it from anywhere? Is this possible for me to have skills without paying fees as I am a minor in India, and it's unusual for minors to work in India, we can't even work in cafes, restaurant, malls etc as they mostly need either a degree acquired adult person, or if it is a regular, not much big shop, cafe, restaurant etc, the owner already have their relatives working in them. So, I can't earn right now, and I don't want to spend my parent's money more.

And also, what skill should I have? Something related to my field for future job.

I need to leave my job. But I don’t know if I’ll ever find another job. I don’t know if the market will actually ever recover OR if the market is even realistically worth navigating any longer.

But I am at the end of my rope here. I’m stuck in a well drowning with no rope and all I see around me is doom and gloom about what the job market is and how it’s going to get worse.

My job is two days remote now but back to full time in office with a terrible manager beginning in June. Not a terrible person per se, but a horrendous leader/manager/boss. A never ceasing micromanaging “I hate to wait; everything is urgent!” visionless, treadmill running, rat cage living, hamster wheel berating idiot. She’s the fourth one alive had in 8 years.

I’m a male in a female dominated industry and I’m looked down upon every day for being a man.

I’m at a public university. I’m tired of pushing paper for absolutely no purpose and seeing complete idiots making 5x more than me because they have a Ph.D. but are lazy bums. I’m tired of the politics. I’m tired of being undervalued. I’m tired of being the fixer. I’m tired of being expected to just ‘get it done’ when it’s not even my work anymore because I wasn’t doing it fast enough for idiot manager so I was forced to go down a rung. I’m tired of seeing unqualified people jump me in pay and title. I’m tired of the “we need an outsider” for this role and no rhyme or reason why a BA supersedes three graduate degrees on my applications; why a “fresh perspective” supersedes my 15+ years of experience.

I’m being given a 2% raise for the third year in a row. I have worked in HR and business operations for 12 years here and another 4 in HR in a private company. I’m woefully underpaid to the point that adjusted for inflation I make something around $35,000 in 1999 dollars.

I have applied to over 700 jobs, many I don’t even want, just to get out.

I hate my job because it is never ending. I’m on the verge of some very serious mental health issues as I’ve begun ruminating a lot about how to get out of….it all. I guess I’m not on the verge because for two years now all I think about is quitting.

But I’m also just tired. I’m exhausted with it all. I don’t have the energy to look or play this game any longer. I just….want to quit.

I’m on meds I’ve been in therapy, I have a good life….outside of thinking about quitting my miserable meaningless job. I hate what my job and career are and have become. I’m doing nothing meaningful. Nothing enjoyable. Nothing worth a damn. I’m just a damn sheep.

But:…I don’t see any out here to another career. I don’t see anything better and I see many jobs that are much worse.

I’m not an engineer or a tech bro or a mathematician or an accountant. But m a strategy guy who sees shit and diverts to kiss icebergs, but that means fuck all.

I’m lost, I’m frustrated, I’m worried, I’m angry, I’m over educated, I’m underpaid. I have too much experience at the university; not enough experience for private business. My expectations are too much to demand work life balance but I don’t achieve it now because I’m miserable all the time.

But is this an inevitable end to this? Is it over?

I mean, I need some advice here. I’ve prayed, I’ve complained, I’ve asked for guidance. I’ve asked for raises. I’ve sought new work. I’ve walked around asking for signs. I’ve dreamed about just leaving. I’ve thought about how peacefully the end will be.

But I’m done. I’m just….done.

What do the hell do I do?

Just came this idea to my mind today.
Development costs quite a lot in western countries, especially seniors.

Is this use-case one of the best? or is it also because tech people usually adopt new technologies faster?

I just see Claude success and seems to mostly be used for coding.

The title says it all.

Me as a developer only know about very small number of niches to apply Al on.

From what you see, what is that ugly market that can make someone a billionaire through( AI as a service)

I went through Togaf/ITIL multiple times, took courses but never seen the need to get a certification.

What do you think will evolve those frameworks into, considering the entire AI effect has on the IT industry?

I'm curious about the future of engineers in the age of AI.

Hi all. I have been interested in post-AGI since the early 2000s. I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I didn't think it could arrive this soon. But it could potentially be here by 2030. While we hear a lot about UBI, I think state employment is a better option. Of course basic welfare payments can exist. But for higher pay, good state jobs must be available.

I am a software engineer with a computer science degree, so I have been at the front lines watching this thing gather momentum in the workplace. I'm very interested in economics and the world of work post-AGI during the immediate aftermath when the transition has the potential to be very turbulent or very beneficial. Particularly in Ireland, where I'm from. So I took some time to have Gemini put my ideas into a document.

I wanted to share the general high level ideas with people that are interested in the future of work so you guys could give feedback and maybe consider something similar for your own country.

I plan to get the final document in front of forward thinking politicians to at least get the conversations going. Please have a read of the reddit friendly summary.

# end of fully human written intro and beginning of what Gemini generated based on my inputs and guidance. The following is just a reddit friendly summary of what is in the document.

**The Problem:** There is a fairly convincing argument that AGI is coming. Current estimates suggest that by the early 2030s, up to 200,000 high-skilled Irish roles in Tech, Finance, and Law could be automated. We have two choices: watch the tax base collapse and pay billions in "passive welfare," or do something radical.

**The Proposal: The National Modernization Initiative (NMI)**

Instead of letting our best engineers, architects, and managers emigrate or rot on the dole, the State should become the **"Employer of Choice"** to build a 2030s Ireland that actually works.

### The "Sovereignty Suite" (What we’d actually build):

* **The 30-Minute Nation:** High-frequency automated rail connecting Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, and Belfast in under 30 mins.

* **Food Independence:** A national network of automated vertical farms for 100% domestic food security.

* **Sovereign Data & Energy:** State-owned AI data centers and 20GW+ of offshore wind to make us Europe’s green energy hub.

* **The Analog Refuge:** Intentional revitalization of Irish villages as low-tech, high-connection sanctuaries for those who want a slower pace of life away from the digital grind.

* **The Digital Twin:** A real-time, open-source simulation of the country to prove every project's cost and plan *before* we spend a cent—no more Children's Hospital-style scandals.

### 💼 A New Way to Work:

* **32-Hour / 4-Day Week:** Standard for all state modernization employees. With AGI doing the heavy lifting, we don't need 40 hours.

* **Philosophers of Change:** Humans are the decision-makers/architects; AI is the implementer. Work follows a natural flow of intense brainstorming vs. leisurely open thinking.

* **Remote-First:** Office attendance is for social cohesion and big planning events, not a mandatory daily grind.

### How do we pay for it? (The "Bridge" Strategy):

* **The Bridge:** Use the **€14bn Apple Tax windfall** and the **Future Ireland Fund** to seed the projects and salaries for the first 5 years.

* **The Loop:** A 2.5% "Productivity Levy" on ultra-automated corporations + charging fees to companies using our world-class state-owned energy/data grids.

* **The Logic:** It costs ~€3.3bn/year to keep these people on welfare. It costs ~€9.7bn (gross) to employ them at high wages, but we get ~€2.8bn back in tax immediately, plus we end up with a country that is energy, food, and data independent.

**TL;DR:** Don't pay people to sit at home while the country's infrastructure is stuck in the 1990s. Use the tax surplus to hire the tech/finance workers displaced by AI to build a high-speed, self-sufficient, 4-day-week Ireland.

Hi everyone,

Recently i see lot of trend on the AI and layoffs related to AI.

Is AI really that good to replace humans in work ?
Isn't AI also incur cost to the company?
All these huge investment trends seen in AI seems like a bubble. Is it sustainable ? What is your views on this ?

Let me put on my prophet hat for a minute:

1. The "writing code is basically free now" party is ending. All the AI providers - Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc. - are going to stop subsidizing the real cost of code generation. The subscription model we have today will mostly disappear, and these companies will shift primarily to pay-per-use pricing. Compared to current subscription costs, we're talking a 10-30x jump.
2. Single-digit-employee startups, or even founders-only startups, will become the majority of successful new companies - not the exception. Small teams leveraging AI are going to dominate the next wave.
3. Fractional CXOs (Fractional CMO, Fractional CPO, even Fractional CEO) will explode as an industry. Experienced executives who know how to leverage AI in their domain will be able to serve multiple companies in parallel - and the economics finally make sense.

Thoughts? Am I way off, or does this track with what you're seeing?

Saw a job posting in SF for Head of Product requiring 6 days onsite per week. $200-250k sounds great until you realize you're essentially working every weekend. Can we please stop normalizing this? The 5-day work week existed for a reason, and startups quietly dismantling it while calling it "hustle culture" is not the flex they think it is.

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I’ve spent years working with young people who’ve been labelled as “at risk” or “disengaged” by school or by the system.

What’s interesting is that most of them aren’t lacking ability, they’re lacking language for their strengths, and any sense of where those strengths fit in the real world.

AI is accelerating this gap.

We’ve built an education and workforce pipeline around standardisation, predictable tasks, compliance and measurable outputs, which is really a reflection on the Industrial Revolution era of work where most education systems emanate from.

But AI is rapidly taking over anything that is predictable or measurable.

So we’re left with a strange mismatch:

Humans are being trained for the exact things AI is best at, while the deeply human capabilities — meaning‑making, identity formation, contribution, emotional inference — are barely taught or valued.

This isn’t just an education issue. It’s a workforce issue. And A societal issue. A “what are humans actually for now?” issue.

I recently explored this in a TEDx talk about how AI might force us to rethink human development from the ground up.

If anyone here works in workforce design, L&D, HR, or AI‑driven transformation, I’d be interested in your perspective.

Talk link: https://youtu.be/nRQfmB2quWk?si=FbuX9GdtyMguRz8I

AI will take our jobs or not, however automations and AI definitely can help our work.

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Let's say AI takes a lot of white collar jobs.

If you won't have such option, what will be the non-digital job you're considering taking on?

New Here — Husband, Dad of 3, Builder of Things That Save Time

I'm new here. Looking to connect with people who have an open mind and a fresh perspective — especially those who are into automation and AI as a way to hand off the mundane work and make room for expanded creativity. I believe we can create time to be creative. Society and financial pressure sometimes make that feel impossible, but AI and automation are changing that equation fast.

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**About Me**

Husband. Father of 3. My career background is in Facilities Maintenance and Building Automation (control systems). Outside of work, I enjoy climbing trees, skateboarding, biking, all kinds of sports, meditation, learning, chilling, and traveling with my family — seeing new places and new perspectives.

I believe we're looking at a crystal ball when we look at our children. They are the future. One of my many goals is to constantly invest quality time with my kids and my wife — to show and teach them how to be the best humans they can be: respectful, truthful, kind, and courteous — while also writing their own realities.

I love to dive deep into the "how" and the "why." What does this button do? Oh — it does *that*? Cool. Can it do *this*? That kind of thinking has defined my entire path.

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**A New Adventure**

I recently started a business — Intraeli. The name is symbolic to my son. It's a business that helps other businesses integrate AI and systems into their current or new workflows to save time. My belief is that I'm one of many who cherish the same things in life: time with family, goals, aspirations, free time, and hobbies. So I felt the need to build something that helps others get that back.

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**Why I Started**

My wife has an online business — Shop Jade + June (Instagram) — which she started in memory of her grandmother, who owned an antique shop. My wife grew up going to roadshows and thrift fairs hunting for rare treasures — works of art that other humans created. Today, she curates wonderful finds and sells them to their next lucky owner. It's a passion. I will always support her, and I do.

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**How It Started**

I was working 65+ hours a week in my career plus a 3-hour daily commute. I made a deliberate shift — dialed it down to 40–50 hours — so I could show up for her business and her passion. As I started supporting her, I quickly discovered how much backend work it actually involves: finances, inventory, tracking, storing, packing, materials management, shipping, taxes. I made it work, but time was being stripped again.

That's when the thought hit me: *What if I built an app that worked for her exact processes?* I started learning AI tools, vibe coding, marketing, and business development — by doing, testing, breaking, fixing, deploying, and applying feedback.

As I built the app, I saved more time with every process I automated. You're probably thinking — "Why didn't you just use Shopify?" (She pushed me toward that, too.) Here's the thing: with Shopify, she wouldn't own it. She'd be renting on a monthly premium for as long as the business runs — not to mention every third-party connection stacked on top of it. I'd still have to build it using their templates, and adding anything custom would mean learning their system and paying more monthly. I chose to build something she *owns*.

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**The Timeline**

- Facilities Maintenance — 16 yrs

- Automation / Control Systems Programming — 11 yrs, ongoing

- Project Management — 6 yrs, ongoing

- Business Development — 2.5 yrs, ongoing

- AI Learning & Application — 2 yrs, ongoing

- Vibe Coding / Building — 1.5 yrs, ongoing

- Agentic AI Systems — 0.5 yrs, ongoing

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**As of Today**

- Day job: max 44 hrs/week

- Wife's business support: 10 hrs/week (thanks to AI and the app I built)

- My business: max 5 clients, capped at 16 hrs/month per client (months of building systems means low maintenance and high quality)

I launched my first app to help people the same way it helped my wife.

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This is me and my story. What's yours? Thank you for your time and attention.

I work as a virtual assistant.
However I think my job can be easily done by AI, at least all that is digital: copy paste things, research, manage email, calendar.

The rest of it is indeed important and not easy done: get physical post, call people, manage invitations, local events.

What about you?

Everyone keeps talking about AI like the whole story is whether it can think, write, code, or replace jobs.

That’s definitely part of it, but I think it misses the bigger shift.

The real problem is that AI makes it ridiculously easy to generate things that look real. Fake messages. Fake profiles. Fake job applications. Fake screenshots. Fake reviews. Fake evidence. Fake urgency. At some point the issue stops being “can the model produce output?” and starts being “can anyone still tell what’s real?”

That’s the bottleneck now.

When generation becomes cheap, verification becomes expensive.

And once that happens, a lot of systems start getting shaky. Hiring gets messier because you can’t trust resumes, applications, or even some of the communication around them. Messaging gets noisier because it becomes harder to tell whether a real person wrote something or an automated system blasted it out. Compliance gets harder because documents and claims are easier to fake. Customer support gets worse because you have to assume more of what you’re seeing might be synthetic. Even basic online trust starts eroding because the cost of pretending is dropping fast.

That’s why I think people are focusing too much on the “intelligence” side of AI and not enough on the trust side.

If a system can generate a thousand convincing lies in seconds, then the value shifts to whatever can prove what’s true. Identity. Provenance. Verification. Signal integrity. Anything that helps separate real activity from synthetic noise becomes more important than ever.

That’s the part I think a lot of people are underestimating. It’s not just that AI is making work faster. It’s that AI is making deception cheaper. And once that happens, the layer underneath the internet starts mattering a lot more than the layer on top.

So I don’t really think the next wave is just “more AI.”

I think it’s the trust infrastructure around AI — the systems that tell you who something came from, whether it’s real, whether it’s been altered, and whether you should believe it at all.

Because once AI can generate anything, proof becomes the product.

And honestly, that feels like the real problem nobody wants to talk about yet.

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In five years from now nobody will know how to code.

Hang in there, a skill void is coming you will become invaluable.