With AI, the middle tier of managers and creators will be wiped out. You will either need to be genius or have a trade (like plumbing). Likely, you will need both. Prepare accordingly.
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It's the same with engineers. The best engineers are now super-engineers and everyone else can leave the building.
Every software engineer needs to also care about infrastructure, too. That's a big change: everyone goes full-stack.
What is your ETA for this to become the norm? Are you doing any specific preparation?
I’m echoing what I heard at a meeting yesterday and it is confirming a gut-feeling I have been feeling. I think people are starting to realize this involuntarily, especially this community where I have been seeing lots of back-to-basics, DIY, handmade stuff. Plus, I’ve become aware of a futures report that predicts in the next decade that a large segment of the population might be reduced to foraging for food and shelter.
The foraging piece seemed really strange to me. 🇨🇦
Yeah, me too.
Here is the report
https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2025/01/10/future-lives-social-mobility/index.shtml#report
Can’t imagine….
Interesting thoughts! I have had hints of the “gut-feeling” myself. I have started a personal project where I am putting together an emergency preparedness stockpile. While I have the traditional natural disaster scenario in the forefront, I am also reminded of the Covid crisis and how my local community reacted to stockpiling. Bit of a shit show really. I am using 20lt buckets with lids as the building blocks. I have a family of 5 to organise for. I have used ChatGPT to brainstorm and plan. Great experience so far.