"Ai is coming and it doesn't care if you are ready or not".
Whose responsibility is that is coming unregulated?
Which countries are more responsible for this situation?
Its unseen by the great masses. Cloning would be regulated 10 times so far.
Which country would lead us to further complications by AI use? The one who gave as adventures with the subprimes and mortages of real people and AAA grades.
In 2008 the citizens lost their homes and then their jobs. In few years they will lose their jobs first.
Which country in the whole Globe prefers their companies prosper and their citizens be without a job?
And what it means the Ai is coming? The AI is coming now. We people have come from centuries with wars and pain. What is the job of political elites? The prosperity of the people or their doom?
These are important questions but more sociopolitical than pragmatic/practical! No one single person has the power to answer them and change the world accordingly. But one can change their local world to great extents
Yes, maybe someone who is aware of those challenges, but chooses to make his workplace a better place. Perhaps leave it traditional (human) or with ethical AI.
It would be a great opportunity for countries which have lost their most brilliant minds (brain drain) in economic crisis, to get some back. But that needs planning ahead..
Another reason for this id because over indexing is likely a waste of time. Model improvement is moving extremely quickly. If you’re an expert at Claude code with all the skills and workflows but Composer 2 is an order of magnitude cheaper and performs just as well on bench marks then it may not be relevant.
The line about survival advice presupposing the mindset it prescribes is the real insight here. "Be adaptive" only means something to someone who already is. It's the same trap as telling someone anxious to just relax. What I keep coming back to is that the Oks framing - jobs disappearing not through automation but through irrelevance - also applies to the advice itself. The playbook for navigating disruption gets disrupted too. The people who actually survived past technology shifts mostly didn't follow a guide. They just happened to be curious about the right thing at the right time, which is both reassuring and terrifying depending on how you look at it.
This is by far the best post of yours that I have read. It combines knowledge, humility, and humanity in a way that very few people commenting on AI do. Thank you - I appreciate your insight and commentary.
The ground-shifts framing hit me harder than the usual automation story. Not "AI will automate your tasks" but "your tasks will stop needing to exist" - that's the one you can't see coming until after.
I've been building with an autonomous agent for a few months. The irony I keep bumping into: the more I invest in teaching the system to actually reason and improve itself, the less anxious I feel about the broader picture. Stopped being a passive observer. Matters more than I expected.
Although - the ATM vs iPhone parallel is still sitting with me. Hard to know which side of that line you're on until you're already through it.
“take the most tedious, repetitive, soul-draining task in your current job and try to get an AI tool to do it.”
This might be useful advice for people in the white collar workforce, but it’s not great for students! I’m trying to figure out how to package it better for students - maybe to identify that kind of task from their personal or family life, or organizations they are part of.
From what I’ve read of your work so far, I gather that you assume (a paradigm shift) that AI will transform not only the world of work but every—and I mean every—aspect of reality in such a way that all people will find themselves standing in, not before, this new world, filled with wonder, shock, fear, uncertainty, and more or less caught off guard. What is the point of this guide if what it is based on changes so rapidly that, no sooner have I shifted my gaze from the thread to my reality than the thread has already changed again, forcing me to look back at the thread once more. I don’t even get a chance to apply the guide because the changes are redefining my reality so rapidly and so radically that I’m simply too slow to keep up with the thread. I’m already old and no longer in the workforce, but if the world changes the way you assume it will, then this guide "for workers" is already history.
Yeah but still slower than what your words imply! You used an apt metaphor but insofar as it remains a metaphor, it's not that useful. The specifics matter here and that speed you talk about is not such. In a few months someone can be on top of this wave with effort and determination
Thank you.
"Ai is coming and it doesn't care if you are ready or not".
Whose responsibility is that is coming unregulated?
Which countries are more responsible for this situation?
Its unseen by the great masses. Cloning would be regulated 10 times so far.
Which country would lead us to further complications by AI use? The one who gave as adventures with the subprimes and mortages of real people and AAA grades.
In 2008 the citizens lost their homes and then their jobs. In few years they will lose their jobs first.
Which country in the whole Globe prefers their companies prosper and their citizens be without a job?
And what it means the Ai is coming? The AI is coming now. We people have come from centuries with wars and pain. What is the job of political elites? The prosperity of the people or their doom?
Unfiltered, no AI participated.
These are important questions but more sociopolitical than pragmatic/practical! No one single person has the power to answer them and change the world accordingly. But one can change their local world to great extents
Yes, maybe someone who is aware of those challenges, but chooses to make his workplace a better place. Perhaps leave it traditional (human) or with ethical AI.
It would be a great opportunity for countries which have lost their most brilliant minds (brain drain) in economic crisis, to get some back. But that needs planning ahead..
“Always aim for competence, not mastery”
Another reason for this id because over indexing is likely a waste of time. Model improvement is moving extremely quickly. If you’re an expert at Claude code with all the skills and workflows but Composer 2 is an order of magnitude cheaper and performs just as well on bench marks then it may not be relevant.
The line about survival advice presupposing the mindset it prescribes is the real insight here. "Be adaptive" only means something to someone who already is. It's the same trap as telling someone anxious to just relax. What I keep coming back to is that the Oks framing - jobs disappearing not through automation but through irrelevance - also applies to the advice itself. The playbook for navigating disruption gets disrupted too. The people who actually survived past technology shifts mostly didn't follow a guide. They just happened to be curious about the right thing at the right time, which is both reassuring and terrifying depending on how you look at it.
This is by far the best post of yours that I have read. It combines knowledge, humility, and humanity in a way that very few people commenting on AI do. Thank you - I appreciate your insight and commentary.
The ground-shifts framing hit me harder than the usual automation story. Not "AI will automate your tasks" but "your tasks will stop needing to exist" - that's the one you can't see coming until after.
I've been building with an autonomous agent for a few months. The irony I keep bumping into: the more I invest in teaching the system to actually reason and improve itself, the less anxious I feel about the broader picture. Stopped being a passive observer. Matters more than I expected.
Although - the ATM vs iPhone parallel is still sitting with me. Hard to know which side of that line you're on until you're already through it.
“take the most tedious, repetitive, soul-draining task in your current job and try to get an AI tool to do it.”
This might be useful advice for people in the white collar workforce, but it’s not great for students! I’m trying to figure out how to package it better for students - maybe to identify that kind of task from their personal or family life, or organizations they are part of.
Indeed! The article is directed to workers
From what I’ve read of your work so far, I gather that you assume (a paradigm shift) that AI will transform not only the world of work but every—and I mean every—aspect of reality in such a way that all people will find themselves standing in, not before, this new world, filled with wonder, shock, fear, uncertainty, and more or less caught off guard. What is the point of this guide if what it is based on changes so rapidly that, no sooner have I shifted my gaze from the thread to my reality than the thread has already changed again, forcing me to look back at the thread once more. I don’t even get a chance to apply the guide because the changes are redefining my reality so rapidly and so radically that I’m simply too slow to keep up with the thread. I’m already old and no longer in the workforce, but if the world changes the way you assume it will, then this guide "for workers" is already history.
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You assume to much haha the guide is useful. Changes happen but not at the speed of light
no, not at the speed of light, but at the speed of ai, not at the speed of working people.
Yeah but still slower than what your words imply! You used an apt metaphor but insofar as it remains a metaphor, it's not that useful. The specifics matter here and that speed you talk about is not such. In a few months someone can be on top of this wave with effort and determination