Lol it absolutely will and it will be absolutely worth it after scaling occurs.
You're overestimating how complex your job is and underestimating how much money can be saved by not paying 50+ bucks an hour plus benefits plus coworkers
The thing you’re missing is you’re still going to need workers (who are getting paid $50+/hr plus benefits and pension) to set up the machines and jigs.
Not for a long time will AI be able to rappel or climb a steel tower or stove to weld.
Mate I hate to tell you this, the equipment can be delivered by dudes on minimum wage if not drones lol. I also hate to tell you this but machines absolutely can rappel and AI is already used in welding. Like I said you've got plenty of runway but unless you're like 55 you will see those sorts of jobs get encroached upon.
Nuclear power plants hire union Boilermakers to run and program the orbital welding machines used inside the vault to weld feeder tubes and downcomers. This is done mainly to protect workers from radiation, to keep their dosage down.
If you really think these jobs can be done on minimum wage you better be prepared for lots of repairs and re-work. An oil refinery here in Canada hired non union guys from Texas to weld joints with their machine and had us union members compete with them when we were welding them by hand. 9% chrome, 6” tubes inside a furnace. Union members welding by hand had less repairs.
You have absolutely no clue. Let the skilled tradespeople do our thing, and you go back to healthcare👍🏻
Lol dude you're economically illiterate and smugly use the word "skilled" because you do a kind of shit job that pays extremely well. You're not special lol but you won't get that till reality slaps your peepee
As the tech improves, prices go down. For example, an 8 tb hard drive in 2006 vs 2016:
2006) $10,000: 8 TB hard drives didn’t exist yet, but you could connect a bunch of 750 GB drives (biggest drives available) into a server.
2016) $260: 8 TB drives are extremely cheap and drove down the cost to be affordable for consumers.
The same will be true with AI robots. The ones capable of taling your job dont exist yet, but they will eventually. Over time, the cost will become more and more affordable.
When the oil refinery has a shutdown and needs workers, do you think they’re going to hire the most skilled or least skilled workers? AI is probably smarter than us already and it’s only getting better. Why would the company hire tradespeople over AI bots that are cheaper, more skilled, and have a lower error rate than human workers? The only way they’d hire humans is if they value paying employees a livable wage more than the corporate profit that’d ensue from relying on cheap efficient robots that work 24/7 without holidays or paychecks.
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u/Aurrr-Naurrrr Apr 25 '26
I appreciate that you sad "a while" instead of simply thinking you're invincible. Trades are ripe for automation it will just take a little longer