Learnings

Bit of a rant post, but thinking that you will be "safe" just because you know how to use AI is moronic. Additionally, thinking you are part of the 1% that might actually be safe is equally moronic. You are learning to use a tool that is fundamentally built and maintained to do one thing: replace you. Drawing a historical parable, AI is like the agricultural machinery that "allowed" farmers to produce the same (or more) with fewer people. If you were to give farmhands the advice "just learn to drive the tractor!", thinking that you would just transition these people into superflously driving around in tractors all day, contributing nothing to production, then you would be out of your mind. The uncomfortable truth is that 80-90% of you will be out of a job very soon. You are considerably more likely being a loser in this race-to-the-bottom that you think you will end up on top off. Thinking that your knowledge of driving tractors will somehow keep you safe against the fundamentally anti-human force of efficiency is naïve at best, willfully delusional at worst. You and I are the farmhands. I wish people would actually be honest about reality instead of sticking their heads in the sand while workers are falling like files around them. To do this, the first thing that needs to happen is realizing that you are the farmhand, not the farmer, and that you will face the farmhands fate. Only then might you be actually able to understand your situation and adapt accordingly. But it is undeniably more comfortable thinking you, the farmer, will be the last person left from your 50 person team.