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I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by _jsmh »

hurrckplgbd wrote: post #113
_jsmh wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a bit amazed you consistently get downvoted while you seem to speak the truth. So much gray in your comments.

I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…

A microcosm indeed.

I didn't write my comment to applaud them.

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by edoceo »

moneywoes wrote: post #44
edoceo wrote: post #6

I've got AI doing my taxes. It's saved me both bookkeeping and CPA costs.

which model? what is your workflow like

Flipping between GPTs and Gemini. Mostly having it help with interpretation of instructions and giving direction to find that data in my books. Stuff my CPA did. Help me categorize an expense (easy). And I had it make a web-form for all the data entry to produce the necessary PDFs.

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by hurrckplgbd »

_jsmh wrote: post #121
hurrckplgbd wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…

A microcosm indeed. I didn't write my comment to applaud them.

I don't understand what "you seem to speak the truth" means if it isn't an endorsement?

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by alecco »

spprashant wrote: post #101
alecco wrote: post #96

AI is taking jobs but for a different reason. Big Tech is in an AI race so they will shrink their staff or move jobs to India as much as possible to free capital for GPU datacenters. To hell with the consequences. Meta, Alphabet, and Oracle are even issuing almost $60 billions in bonds. Unheard of.

I am curious to see if jobs are actually moving offshore. Is there any data suggesting this? I was under the impression Big Tech is cutting jobs across the board, all regions.

Microsoft announces US $3bn investment over two years in India https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-announces-us-3bn-... (Jan 2025)

Google announces $15B investment in AI hub in India https://apnews.com/article/google-artificial-intelligence-vi... (3 weeks ago)

[Indian] ex-Accenture CTO named Google Cloud’s Chief Product https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-karthik-na... (last week) (a lot of people speculate they named an Indian Accenture guy to move as much as possible to India)

Big Tech giants defy US-India trade tensions, record strongest 12-month headcount growth in India in 3 years https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/big-tech-giants-defy... (September)

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/openai-launch-first-indi...

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-global-operations-t...

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Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by 9rx »

hitarpetar wrote: post #116
9rx wrote: post #52

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"Slop" suggests that the only difference is in quality, but the definition of engineer says nothing of quality. Perhaps you might consider using an LLM to build a system that creates a response that is more coherent?

wow epic comeback man can you share the prompt you used to generate it?

I'm told you don't need to build a prompt. That would be engineering, which apparently isn't involved in the use of LLMs.

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by monero-xmr »

hurrckplgbd wrote: post #113
_jsmh wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a bit amazed you consistently get downvoted while you seem to speak the truth. So much gray in your comments.

I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…

I post my view that is against the HN hive mind and don't always feel like rebutting the same hive mind talking points again and again. I like to post to prove there is an alternative view out there

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by rvz »

geodel wrote: post #77
rvz wrote: post #59

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> When using AI, you become a software engineer. Stopped reading. VR flight simulator software is accessible to the layman. Does that make them qualified to be a captain (pilot-in-command) for a commercial passenger plane?

Huh, Pilot/ Captain job requirement for commercial plane is highly regulated by authorities like FAA etc but software engineer has no such requirement. Any random business with some basic software requirement can ask an employee or contractor to get something developed quickly and deployed it. They may start calling that person software engineer. Further even if you have some strict ACM/IEEE definition of Software En…

> Huh, Pilot/ Captain job requirement for commercial plane is highly regulated by authorities like FAA etc but software engineer has no such requirement. ny random business with some basic software requirement can ask an employee or contractor to get something developed quickly and deployed it. They may start calling that person software engineer.

Exactly the problem. Secondly, if I am building commercial plane software for pilots to use, you wouldn't want to hire unqualified / in-experienced 'engineers' for all the critical work and validation testing. (or even AI vibe-coders picked from anywhere.)

Because surely, that worked out for Boeing. [0] /s

> Further even if you have some strict ACM/IEEE definition of Software Engineer®, a person is not going to end up in jail if they don't fulfill those but call themselves software engineer nonetheless.

So we are now defending fraud if one calls themselves an SWE on their CV with zero experience other than an AI doing all the coding?

It's like you want to take the legal risk hoping that the employer / company won't sue you for fraud when that vibe-coded software goes all wrong and money is lost.

[0] https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by hurrckplgbd »

monero-xmr wrote: post #126
hurrckplgbd wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…

I post my view that is against the HN hive mind and don't always feel like rebutting the same hive mind talking points again and again. I like to post to prove there is an alternative view out there

I don't know your motivations but I know the "HN hive mind" isn't the problem. When you do engage with people who disagree with you, it usually becomes evident to me that there isn't much substance behind your views and that you struggle to disagree amicably. I also see lots of people on HN with a similar perspective to yours who don't have the same problems or engage in the same patterns of behavior.

The facts are that HN has a diverse set of perspectives with many conservative/libertarian commenters who would align with you, but that your comments are frequently shallow flamebait. Though I have seen a couple good points you've made, as well. Do with that information what you will.

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by 9rx »

guywithahat wrote: post #93
9rx wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When using a pen you become a poet ? No. By definition, a poet writes poems. Not all pen use leads to poems. By definition, engineers build systems. What else can you do with code (and LLMs; same thing) other than build systems?

In mechanical engineering you can be an engineer or a mechanic, or other things (like a hobbies or different degrees of casual work), and they're no interchangeable. I think being an engineer implies it's a profession you've trained in and you're implementing the science behind it in a practical manor in some capacity (like a computer scientist studies computers, a computer engineer implements and builds the systems…

> In mechanical engineering you can be an engineer or a mechanic, or other things

Sure. While some mechanics may sometimes find themselves having to design things to carry out their work (in which case they would be engineers during that time), generally speaking mechanics carry out the physical replacement of what engineers have already designed. They are not designing things themselves.

But there is no mechanic analog in computing. At least there isn't a human mechanic analog. One is always operating at the design level, regardless of whether the design is written in C, Rust, or natural language. All the engineering-adjacent work you find in other engineering disciplines is done by the computer in the software realm.

> I think being an engineer implies it's a profession you've trained in and you're implementing the science behind it in a practical manor in some capacity

That's what "professional engineer" implies, but we're talking about "engineer". There is no such connotations in the word engineer alone, hence the existence of the PE term.

Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

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Post by standardly »

monero-xmr wrote: post #126
hurrckplgbd wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…

I post my view that is against the HN hive mind and don't always feel like rebutting the same hive mind talking points again and again. I like to post to prove there is an alternative view out there

I'm also guilty of what they accuse you of. Sometimes my internet comments are not made for the purpose of sparking discussion, but more of a "vent" where I know my take is not popular but I feel the need to throw it out there anyway. The comment is more for "me" than anyone else. And, yeah.. that makes it a bad comment lol.

I also just love playing devil's advocate, and I'm adverse to hivemindy-feeling opinions (even when I share them). Maybe this all describes you, too.

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