I’m kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.
I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.
At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don’t give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn’t slop)
I’m sick of it, I’m sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.
I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?
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trades and nursing.
You cant get AI to do physiotherapy. So maybe become a PT assistant.
isn’t safe
Tell me more about … ooh, physiotherapy.
Anything that requires physical work. Manufacturing, trades, etc… But, there’s the caveat that AI may still indirectly affect these too.
There is the (more difficult) option of finding a dev job for an older tech conservative company. My workplace has just barely rolled out access to copilot chat. Our devs are still doing things without the slop.
Look at the more heavily regulated business sectors, they tend to be more resistant to tech fads.
Become a dentist
My BIL started brewing beer for a local brewery after he retired from the Army.
Become a mechanical engineer on the operations side of electricity generation(stationary engineering, power engineering, steam entineering, instrumentation/controls, programming, tuning, etcetera). Shits been working out pretty well for me over the last decade. You don’t need a degree depending on state/country and the pay is excellent(usually but can vary based on state). Try not to work in a coal or trash plant. I got my degree but that was before I knew I wouldnt have technically needed it. The fuels will change but there’s always gonna need to be people maintaining the grid. Tons of different avenues to work within generation and you know you’re doing something that matters.
Engineer
Rocket scientist
Electrician
Plumber
Mechanic
Structural engineer
Surveyor
Anyone with a professional job that requires a degree, or even the most basic level of technical knowledge know that an LLM cannot replace their job by “putting words in enough of an order to sound like a person” or “drawing a picture that looks like something”
Being a kindergarten teacher is not really something that AI can help with.
You’re joking me right? I’m pretty sure this is actively happening. they’re going to put the kids in individual tubes with iPads and a toilet
Not my experience, at least not here in Norway – in fact, there’s been a pretty big backlash against the digitalization of childhood in schools and kindergartens, so I’d be very surprised if there’s any increasing pressure on us to use computers at all with the children. A colleague of mine put on some movies a handful of times in December, and even that caused some concerned messages from parents.
at least not here in Norway
At least part of the world isn’t racing to the bottom
Unfortunately the countries with high population and public education being negligible, have really low pay.
I heard Norway and Sweden kindergarten teachers get 120,000 USD ! that sounds great.
hehe, I wish, but no, the starting salary is more like $55 000, increasing to about $65 000 as you get more experience.
oh no. That does sound low. But i do believe if your interest lies in teaching it brings you joy.
Can someone in their late twenties start teaching in nordic schools? Or do they have to begin studying for 2+ diploma courses?
It’s a three year bachelor’s degree to become a kindergarten teacher in Norway. You can work in kindergarten without that education, but then you’ll be more of an assistant and your salary will be even lower.
You’d also have to learn Norwegian, of course, unless you can get a job at one of the very few english-language international kindergartens.
Thank you so much internet friend!
Idk maybe I’m wrong, but this feels like more of a hiring issue than AI. You should still be hiring good engineers, and you shouldn’t incentivize them to go so fast that they have to vibe code everything. Let good engineers use AI if they want, and not use it if they don’t want to. If their code is bad, it’s their fault, not the tools they are using.
Naturally you can ask LeChat and you will probably get a sensible answer ;-) but in general jobs that deal with real people (sales, consulting, project management, politics, …) and real things (e.g. electrician, construction, gardener, creator of beautiful items (furniture, art), mechanic…)
Consulting and Project management are ripe for AI disruption. No way will they be eliminated, but an AI camera tracking the blue collar workers plus a “manager” who is just a data entry clerk, especially when combined with other data sources will remove a massive amount of managing a project.
Consultants and Sales to a large degree are just about listening to clients whine about something and repeating back to management (in a different voice) the same things that their own staff is saying. LLMs are good at being that different voice.
Thanks for adding more perspective. Sure, if you take for instance “sales”, that is a huge category, from people who do telephone sales, to car sales, to software sales, realtors, consulting sales, complex equipment sales… the more complex the product or service on sale is, the less likely it is that the sales person will be replaced by AI, and the more likely it will be that this person will use AI as an assistant. The OP will need to identify that sweet spot, and a good education will be crucial.
anything that is not digital/information driven. aka fields involving blue collar work.
Devs tend to say To hell with it! and lead happy lives in agriculture.
I know a couple.As for agriculture:
Interstellar (movie) has a good example on how that could look like.
But remove the single person/family with corps.TLDR: GPS controlled automated harvesting machines.
toilet man
I feel ya. But the pendulum will probably swing back the other way soon and we’ll have a ton of companies hiring to undo/replace slop code. That’s how it has been for previous coding fads, anyway.
I’m so tired of my skill and income being beholden to the whims of bullshit artists though.
