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If you work in Tech or IT what's something you want everyone to know?

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Trollsandsqueakforbreakfast · 23/12/2024 17:31

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Jennyathemall · 24/12/2024 17:25

ErrolTheDragon · 24/12/2024 17:23

Especially when paired with ctrl-V paste

They make a right nice pair.

WhisperingTree · 24/12/2024 17:27

I wouldn’t recommend a job in tech for new starters either. It is now much harder to enter the industry than before. We need a lot less beginners and at the same time, many more are interested in entering anything tech related.

mantaraya · 24/12/2024 17:33

Sure - but many jobs which don't exist right now will in the future.
My job didn't exist when I was in school.

I don't disagree with that. But there will be plenty of people who've trained all their lives to do a specific job only to find it ceases to exist pretty much overnight. It's not trivial to reskill entire swathes of the workforce.

xkcd1883 · 24/12/2024 17:38

ErrolTheDragon · 24/12/2024 17:20

At a global level it may not be the case that AI takes all the jobs but many jobs roles that exist right now will not exist in future.

Sure - but many jobs which don't exist right now will in the future.

My job didn't exist when I was in school.

My job didn't exist when I was in school.

That's the critical point though - you were at school, not already working.

Having lived through this type of change a couple of times in my life it's not as simple as "get a job in the new thing". The net effect is that the old jobs are replaced by new ones but at the individual level people do lose jobs and not get them back.

Workers skilled in the older technology become unemployable and young people come in at the bottom and learn skills in the newer technology.

Some manage to retrain or are able to continue as managers but many don't. Some find being an expert in the old way of doing something can actually hamper learning the new skills because the tendency is to see it as "a new way to do the old thing" instead of "how to do a thing", which is how the new people learn it. And even the ones who do reskill have to contend with agism and the challenges of going back to entry level wages.

xkcd1883 · 24/12/2024 17:40

What I want everyone to know is that a third of Aamzon's turnover comes from AWS. Pretty much any major brand's website is probably running on Amazon Web Services.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/12/2024 17:44

That's the critical point though - you were at school, not already working.

Not really, older people entered the field too.

definitedeferral · 24/12/2024 18:09

mantaraya · 24/12/2024 15:39

AI will not take jobs, this is trotted out as a "gotcha" all the time as is simply not the reality. Jobs may change, as others alluded to, but for AI to replace humans we're talking decades and decades in the future, if at all. Even if the technology is there, only the richest enterprises can afford to adopt it.

At a global level it may not be the case that AI takes all the jobs but many jobs roles that exist right now will not exist in future.

I run a tech startup and we're trying to automate as much as we possibly can. We're able to do 90% of our data analysis, legal and finance using AI. It's massively increased our dev speed meaning fewer developers required. I'll never need to hire a photographer or a copy editor ever again and I expect video editing to be fully automated soon.

Yeah I don't disagree these traditional Tech roles will disappear in some respect. However this is the smaller, immediate picture only. With automation comes compliance, testing, legal implications, standards. The laws around information security are only going to get tighter and that's not even mentioning the consumption and storage of data, what this means for the planet and how companies will be forced to manage this in future. Automation does not equal no human input, just a different role. with AI comes many ethical, security, and practical issues, the policing of this will spread to all entities eventually creating hundreds of jobs. So, sure you might not need a video editor but that person could probably get a compliance based role elsewhere when entities are forced to ensure standards of their video data/AI processing. We're at an impasse right now, it's going to get a whole lot more complicated in future to adopt and rely on AI, especially in regulated industries.

CandiedPrincess · 24/12/2024 18:21

With automation comes compliance, testing, legal implications, standards.

Agree. We're hiring in several new roles right now in compliance and testing for automation. It's also a really hard area to recruit, that's where I'd be encouraging people to study and develop right now!

PCOSisaid · 24/12/2024 19:12

xkcd1883 · 24/12/2024 17:40

What I want everyone to know is that a third of Aamzon's turnover comes from AWS. Pretty much any major brand's website is probably running on Amazon Web Services.

I work in tech and can confirm pretty much all of the uk government critical infrastructure is on AWS…

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