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DoubleF · 06-11-2025, 11:20 AM

I think I need to better teach my kids that nothing is beneath them job wise. Everything contributes towards a career, no matter how menial the role is (ie: if the front door works, try the side door and work your way up/one of the persons with the most access to areas a company is the janitor with the keys). Learning to do a variety of things like retail/customer service/labour roles doesn't hurt your long term career goals, no matter what it is IMO.

The other thing I anticipate is that management + forecasting and budgeting will be more important than it is now. AI will be good, but I think we could end up in a situation where the AI is like someone with ADHD and will just do a bunch of unnecessary things if not managed or focused correctly/given automatic access to too many things. This will amplify as lead times shorten drastically. Things that used to take hours to weeks can be done nearly instantly. This is great assuming that we aren't receiving 10,000x more pre-created trash within moments (ie: possibility doesn't turn into tangible product). Either the algorithms will force people to like something which could mean consumption of media becomes an odd circular loop of ennui (ie: "nothing to watch on Netflix). Or certain human will be identified and used in groups for figuring out/testing what potential "new trends" will be next (ie: Kinda like an early access/beta testing type of work role).

I think I mentioned I want my kids to learn as many different skills and roles as possible growing up. Have many skillsets to be a good candidate for potentially new work roles that will be created once AI is more commonly deployed. IMO, one way to look at it is to see how collectors items/social media influencing/video gaming have exploded in the last few decades. It probably wasn't even on most people's radar as a possible work like role in the 80s/90s. AI is the next frontier to the internet/knowledge age and IMO we haven't even properly identified how things will change going forward.

IMO, not just coding, coding will just be language. "Polyglots" will be standard going forward. IMO, logic and design will be the next frontier once AI levels out certain parts of the playing field.

06-11-2025, 11:20 AM	#269
DoubleF Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2014 Exp:	I think I need to better teach my kids that nothing is beneath them job wise. Everything contributes towards a career, no matter how menial the role is (ie: if the front door works, try the side door and work your way up/one of the persons with the most access to areas a company is the janitor with the keys). Learning to do a variety of things like retail/customer service/labour roles doesn't hurt your long term career goals, no matter what it is IMO. The other thing I anticipate is that management + forecasting and budgeting will be more important than it is now. AI will be good, but I think we could end up in a situation where the AI is like someone with ADHD and will just do a bunch of unnecessary things if not managed or focused correctly/given automatic access to too many things. This will amplify as lead times shorten drastically. Things that used to take hours to weeks can be done nearly instantly. This is great assuming that we aren't receiving 10,000x more pre-created trash within moments (ie: possibility doesn't turn into tangible product). Either the algorithms will force people to like something which could mean consumption of media becomes an odd circular loop of ennui (ie: "nothing to watch on Netflix). Or certain human will be identified and used in groups for figuring out/testing what potential "new trends" will be next (ie: Kinda like an early access/beta testing type of work role). I think I mentioned I want my kids to learn as many different skills and roles as possible growing up. Have many skillsets to be a good candidate for potentially new work roles that will be created once AI is more commonly deployed. IMO, one way to look at it is to see how collectors items/social media influencing/video gaming have exploded in the last few decades. It probably wasn't even on most people's radar as a possible work like role in the 80s/90s. AI is the next frontier to the internet/knowledge age and IMO we haven't even properly identified how things will change going forward. IMO, not just coding, coding will just be language. "Polyglots" will be standard going forward. IMO, logic and design will be the next frontier once AI levels out certain parts of the playing field.