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Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

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Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

#11
Top picks:

Game development -- AI will eventually be guidable to write code, but it likely won't have "imagination" in the next decade (and I am not worried about my finances after that)

Beer making -- Similarly, AI likely won't understand taste for quite some time

Woodworking -- When everything is mass produced by automation, I suspect people will want unique, custom, hand-made things more.

Edit: Fix format, clarify statement on next decade :-)

Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

#13
The career I’m already moving towards – technical leadership. Swap programmers with AI and the really fun part of designing and building software systems remains the same.

Honestly the work is very similar. Much of what I do these days is conveying ideas to fuzzy intelligences, getting their feedback and suggestions, iterating, and making sure the final product is coherent, does what it says, and fits the longer term vision.

Turns out you can get a lot more done by keeping 5 people on track than you can by banging code on a keyboard.

Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

#18
post #5

Electrician or solar panel installation or something like that.

I've been looking at switching to solar installation. The problem is whether or not that is a good move, long-term, is super regional (in the US, and I guess I'm assuming you're from the US). For the states that have incentives to pair with the federal incentives, business is booming. But for everywhere else, the return on your investment just isn't there, yet.

Also, installers seem to make little money, whereas sales staff make shitloads. So there's probably something to that if you really thought about it.

Source; We're having solar installed. Without federal and state incentives/tax breaks, the break-even point on the max system our rural cooperative will let us put up is around 30 years, with incentives, it's around 5.

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