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It will be the first white collar job purge of our generation. There are so many jobs that now can be easily automated or compressed to a fraction of the workforce needed before. Everyone is a prompt engineer now.

Think goverment / banking / insurrance / big companies

Every workload that is based around consent or rules will be impacted.

Even as a developer my leverage for certain task just went up by a huge margin.

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The first, really? What about what happened to accountants when spreadsheets and personal computers came along? Or bank tellers when ATMs started popping up? Or even the monks who copied books when the printing press was invented?

There will always be jobs because humans will always have problems we are willing to throw money at to make go away.

All those professions experienced a massive downturn in staff required, but the jobs remained because the technology wasn't good enough that a potential customer could do the high-end tasks by themselves. We're now getting to the point that they can.

I think we will see a couple very big failures when AIs replace people and then we are back to employing people for many of these roles. I don't see any actual need for AIs in many cases, expert systems could do job better and more accurately. And that has been case for decades.

I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm pretty sure no monk was copying books in my lifetime.

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