What I Actually Think Happens to Entry-Level Tech Jobs Next
I get asked often what happens to people just starting out in tech as AI gets more capable. Here is my honest, considered take, not a comforting one or a doom-laden one.
I get asked often what happens to people just starting out in tech as AI gets more capable. Here is my honest, considered take, not a comforting one or a doom-laden one.
Software keeps shipping AI features nobody specifically requested, bolted onto tools that worked fine without them. Here is my honest theory on why that keeps happening.
Teaching a parent to use AI tools confidently, without falling for the scams that increasingly piggyback on the same hype, takes a genuinely different approach than teaching a client.
The mistakes have not gone away. They have just gotten a lot more convincing-sounding. Here is why that is actually a bigger problem than the mistakes themselves.
I asked the exact same business question to three different AI tools to see how much the answer actually varied. The results were a genuinely useful lesson in not trusting any single one blindly.
I was genuinely excited about this tool for a few months. Then I just stopped opening it. Here is what actually happened.
People ask me this constantly, expecting either reassurance or panic. Here is the genuinely honest, more complicated answer I actually give them.
People ask what an "AI ambassador" actually does on a Tuesday. Here is the honest, unglamorous version of the answer.
A client once chose me over a cheaper, faster AI-driven alternative for one specific reason. It taught me something about where this technology actually fits.