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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?

#31

If LLMs have roughly peaked, then everything is safe except for things that are already being eaten away like translation and call center work. If they haven't and we have hit the exponential growth mark, nothing is safe and even the temporarily "safe jobs" will also suffer greatly from being crunched on both the supply and demand sides (there will be more labor supply for those jobs as the displaced try to flee to s…

Robots require material resources and are quite difficult to produce. I wouldn't be surprised if we go through a period of time were intellectual work is outdated and most people are back to exhausting manual work. Basically, no middle class anymore, just some elites and many manual workers doing what the AI asks. I guess, to those future elites, humans would just be self-reproducing robots. (well robots like those we have now would definitely see use, but I am not sure about the timeline for general-purpose robots that can do many things including assemble themselves).

I don't have a strong belief this will happen however, and I hope it does not.

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

#32
* superior written communication

* leadership

* data structures

* task/project management

* performance/measurements

* data transmission techniques

Honestly, if you really have to ask the question then none of this matters because it sounds like you are already delegating your career to AI which would make this list unapproachable.

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

#33
Killing/rescuing people with your brain instead of bullets and/or creating/exploding structures.

Join the Army. Become a Combat Engineer Sergeant.

Enjoy getting told by your superiors that they are afraid of sitting in the same room with you, because your thinking cap gaze looks like you are always plotting to kill them in the most sophisticated and fun way imaginable. Never say a word, just give them a big friendly smile in return.

Leave with a treasure trove of abilities useful for the rest of your life, or to simply troll your neighbors, and give lifelong work to a local psychotherapist.

Big friendly smile. Two thumbs up.

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

#39
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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.

Job cuts no, but your next nurse might just be a "gig nurse" that bid the lowest for the job. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/healthcare-n...
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