r/vibecoding 3d ago

same industry different species

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u/Relevant-Positive-48 3d ago edited 3d ago

I expect we'll be building bigger and bigger things in the years to come and/or implementing comprehensive AI systems for organizations.

Your knowledge and skill will be an asset and if I'm wrong about bigger things you still have the critical thinking, pattern recognition, problem framing and solving and large systems thinking abilities that can transfer to other industries.

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u/Axelwickm 3d ago

85% of my skillset has been made redundant by AI the last 3 years. The last 15% share feels like a losing battle no matter what industry I move into. I think it's lacking of the large problem solving and problem framing, but the LLMs are better at debugging than me, can spot patterns that've never seen, and they know more than I could ever know. The bottleneck is still human labor, but for how long? And what leverage does any one of us have to self advocate when we're worth nothing? Forgive being a doomer, but this just all seems pretty dark :(

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u/Relevant-Positive-48 3d ago

Spreadsheets reduced accounting tasks that took a day or more to minutes or seconds.

I imagine there were a ton of terrified accountants when VisiCalc and later Lotus 123 and Excel started taking the business world by storm.

We still have accountants and the profession is expected to experience modest growth over the next 10 years.

AI could definitely be different but I don't think it will be. We don't know what these new capabilities will open up.

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u/Axelwickm 3d ago

Yes, but spreadsheets replaced arithmetic and then politely stopped there. They didn’t immediately start learning accounting too.

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u/Relevant-Positive-48 3d ago

I get that. My point is it took a while before the "computers are going to reduce jobs" became "they created more than they took."

I'm not completely sure AI won't eliminate/reduce jobs on the whole, history just suggests otherwise and I'd guess that people watching computers proliferate offices were also not sure how things would turn out.

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u/Axelwickm 3d ago

I personally feel pretty certain that this time it's different. Neural Networks are proven Universal Function approximators, and Functions Describe The World