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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 hurrckplgbd »

standardly wrote: post #130
monero-xmr wrote: post #126

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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 (eve…

I don't have a problem with people doing that as long as they don't pretend that every other commenter holds the same contrary opinion and that the downvotes indicate they're too sensitive to discuss such things, or other similar rationalizations. If you want to leave some drive-by snark without rationalizing it as being about other people, it's not my favorite kind of comment but I'm not going to object to it either.

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

#132

Post by monero-xmr »

hurrckplgbd wrote: post #128
monero-xmr wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I disagree entirely, I don’t even post very frequently so it’s surprising I have someone tracking my posts. The shorter a comment the better it is, if the same opinion that takes an essay can be distilled into a sentence

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

#133

Post by hurrckplgbd »

monero-xmr wrote: post #132
hurrckplgbd wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I disagree entirely, I don’t even post very frequently so it’s surprising I have someone tracking my posts. The shorter a comment the better it is, if the same opinion that takes an essay can be distilled into a sentence

Maybe you disagree, maybe you don't. Since you chose to veer in different direction and reply to something I never said, I don't know either way.

In any case, brevity is something great writing and shallow hot takes share.

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

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Post by shirro »

The US is in a recession when the AI bubble is taken out. So obviously jobs are in decline. Machine learning hires are up because there are billions of dollars in circular financing.

While consumers are generally receptive to assistive machine learning like speech recognition, translation, limited auto-complete I think there is a huge backlash towards it being used to generate content and as far as I know all the major AI companies are losing huge amounts of money with every transaction. I am sure AI is being widely used as a reason for staff reductions but the reality is more likely sales are down, costs are up and head count is too high for current business requirements.

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

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Post by spprashant »

alecco wrote: post #124
spprashant wrote: post #101

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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 peopl…

Okay thanks for the links. I have supposedly not been reading the news.

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

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Post by monero-xmr »

hurrckplgbd wrote: post #133
monero-xmr wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree entirely, I don’t even post very frequently so it’s surprising I have someone tracking my posts. The shorter a comment the better it is, if the same opinion that takes an essay can be distilled into a sentence

Maybe you disagree, maybe you don't. Since you chose to veer in different direction and reply to something I never said, I don't know either way. In any case, brevity is something great writing and shallow hot takes share.

My first comment on this whole thread was how security in tech is theater, and the sellers mostly snake oil salesmen. I’m not the first to make this observation and I don’t think it’s wrong. Which is why employment in the sector is down, full circle to the OP

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

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Post by papascrubs »

danillonunes wrote: post #75
moffkalast wrote: post #49

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Bold of you to assume there is any demand for security in AI integrations. It's like 90s web browsers, everyone's running random MCP servers that do god knows what.

Seems like when the security market is low on the white hat side, it's high on the black hat one. Security people just need to learn to adapt.

I'm sure some of these ransomware groups probably offer health insurance and 401k matching.

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

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Post by hurrckplgbd »

monero-xmr wrote: post #136
hurrckplgbd wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you disagree, maybe you don't. Since you chose to veer in different direction and reply to something I never said, I don't know either way. In any case, brevity is something great writing and shallow hot takes share.

My first comment on this whole thread was how security in tech is theater, and the sellers mostly snake oil salesmen. I’m not the first to make this observation and I don’t think it’s wrong. Which is why employment in the sector is down, full circle to the OP

Go ahead, take that slim, speculative, tangential connection and interpret it as permission to inject your hot take into the discussion. Decline to elaborate when your supposition is challenged. You've every right to do that.

Just don't pretend that it's for our benefit or that we downvote it because we're unthinking drones, or that you decline to elaborate because we're simply not capable of having the discussion.

I tell you this because if I were insulating myself inside a bubble and rationalizing my interactions with those who disagree with me as being the reflexive behavior of a hive mind, I would hope someone would point that out to me. So here it is; again, do with the opportunity what you will.

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

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Post by parineum »

tayo42 wrote: post #110
parineum wrote: post #102

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What's your point? If there's no work for 10k people to do, should companies just continue employing them to do... nothing?

That's never how layoffs are done. If you survive them your workload just increases and the employees picked are based on nothing or something arbitrary. Then your company has a reputation for being unreliable for stable employment and people that can pick where they want to go will go else where. It also kills morale and remaining high performers will go somewhere else. Now the company laying off is stuck with low p…

Sounds like a recipe for bankruptcy. How many of these companies doing mass layoffs are going to go out of business?

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

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Post by insane_dreamer »

This is part of the picture, but in terms of impact one also needs to look at this in terms of absolute numbers not just percentages. Two job positions can both drop by 10% and in one case it represents 100,000 jobs and in the other case 500,000 jobs.
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