Ask HN: If AI took your job tomorrow, what is your plan? I'm looking for some optimism here after reading one of the recent daily threads that devolves into doom. I'm 26, single, at a non-FAANG making okay money doing software, but I can feel the AI grip tightening. Maybe it's an illusion, not sure, but it sure feels real. Does anyone here have a creative plan for other industries to get into? Ways to reduce expenses? Trying to find something people with brains like ours can look forward to. |
As I get older, what matters more and more are the relationships I have with other people and other beings in general.
I also value the story of "private sufficiency, public luxury", and I mostly move myself around the planet under my own power these days (good way to not pay for exercise / work-out space). I'm ready to never use a computer again, and to work with other humans to tend land in the old ways. I accept that I'll die, and I do my best to be kind and compassionate to others, ready to retaliate if attacked, with default being a cooperative state, because that's a story I like being part of.
But yeah small food stall or food van is the way to go. (My opinion)
In the meantime, embrace it in creative ways.
Have fun coding, build relationships, don't overthink it.