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Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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Re: Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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Paramedicine and nursing. These roles will adapt and use AI, but because they're still so hands-on, and there's already a shortage of staff in those roles in general, I don't see job cuts there.

Agree, but can't learn it now- I am in a tech space.

Plenty of tech happening in that space too.

As examples, check out:

Cosinuss: https://www.cosinuss.com/en/

Medictool: https://www.medic-tool.com/

LifesaverSim: https://www.lifesaversim.com/

Re: Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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Social skills. Same as it ever was. That beats talents/smarts every time in a corporate environment

Don't you mean sociopathy? Or it that just my autistic side talking?

Empathy, getting along with people, seeking mutual benefit are also valuable skills.

Re: Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you mean sociopathy? Or it that just my autistic side talking?

Empathy, getting along with people, seeking mutual benefit are also valuable skills.

If someone is "learning" those to keep their job then yeah I'd say that's a huge red flag

Re: Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Empathy, getting along with people, seeking mutual benefit are also valuable skills.

If someone is "learning" those to keep their job then yeah I'd say that's a huge red flag

That was not the question being asked

Re: Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

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management and critical thinking.

management - it occured to me that giving instructions to agent is very similar to giving instructions to human employees - even the best of them make mistakes.

i learnt that asking claude code to "investigate for 3 potential root causes" is more effective than "investigate the root cause" in bug fix. this blows my mind as i realize that agent can be lazy, can be careless, and we can give better instruction to prevent that.

another reason why i said this is that giving enough context and defining blast boundary is more efficient than hand-holding/micromanaging and checking every tool call for agents. the management skill for human employees also works here.

critical thinking - you just need to have your judgement on the seemingly solid but actually halluncinated agent bs.

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