cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43837434
AI won't replace you, your self-righteousness will.
I was highered at a friend's IT company because of the big Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade, which meant any PC on a 7th Gen or older Intel chip would not upgrade, and would therefore be incompatible with future security patches compliant with FTC legal framework.
Therefore I spent a year or more building new computers (not from scratch, but assembly level work to save our company money on the roleout), then imaging, upgrading, and installing basic software which made them network compatible.
It evolved into implication-level installations, on-site. Each level of the job meant an increase in onesown knowledge-base, but nothing like the computer wizards working upstairs (so to speak [at home]), with degrees in computer science and long lunch breaks.
Eventually, having implemented most of these products, our job resolved into installations of printers, plugging monitors in whose hdmi cables had slid out, and various other ground-level, field tech work which couldn't be physically done by the wizards upstairs (at home).
The other day a GM came to me while I was verifying a printer had an ancient fax machine plugged in (which was not our domain, at the end of the day), and begged me to come and look at his computer which wasn't screensharing to his 55-inch tv anymore (even though his laptop did, and other nearby pc's could).
The upstairs people wanted me to install a new pc. But I did a simple Google search and one suggestion was to reinstall the display driver. Which I did, and that solved it.
Everyone upstairs (at home) was shocked. That had never occurred to them in all their wisdom. They had so much experience and knowledge that it had never occurred to them to do a simple Google search.
Amen. AI-men.
That's why you lose your job. Not because AI is better, but because you are so self-righteous sitting at home in cheetos dust you cant even do a basic Google search on your smartphone.
Stop complaining.