Subj : Re: Issue With Message Im
To   : Mortar
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Oct 15 2026 12:52 pm

  Re: Re: Issue With Message Im
  By: Mortar to Nightfox on Thu Oct 15 2026 02:42 pm

 >> ...if I had known all this when I was starting college, maybe I would have
 >> tried to choose a degree path for a more stable profession.

 Mo> The fear of automation overshadowing Human jobs has existed ever since
 Mo> mechinisation began over a century ago, it just took different forms, but
 Mo> in all cases, the impact was far less than anticipated.

 Mo> When I was coming up, the big fear was that computers (mainframes) were
 Mo> gonna put everybody out of work.  While some jobs were rendered obsolete,
 Mo> it created many new ones.  How things will shake out around LLMs is
 Mo> unknown right now, but I'd hazard a guess that it'll work out in time.
 Mo> Personally, I'm hoping for the stricter side of LLM usage.

It's not just AI and automation, but also the fact that layoffs are common in 
my industry, which was true before the current AI era.  If I'm at a job I 
enjoy, I think it would be nice to know a layoff would be unlikely.

Nightfox

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