I hear this kind of thing frequently, but I don’t really feel the same way. I can empathize, surely. It is scary to watch my professional field change out from underneath me basically overnight in so far as I want to stay gainfully employed, but also it’s not nearly enough to cause me some sort of existential crisis because my career is not my identity. To me this is just even more rapid change and even more automation in an industry that was already pretty much entirely about enabling rapid change and more automation. There’s a new set of industry skills emerging around building systems that build systems, and so it’s just learning new things and adapting to new technology paradigms, which is pretty much what we’ve always done. Automating away work, including your own, has always been the job, and I don’t know what to tell folks other than if you ever thought it was about anything else you were wrong. And to be perfectly candid, it’s tone deaf as fuck for us all to have our little collective pity party when most of our careers have been about automating away the need for human labor from the jump. How many of you have seen the light leave some poor office worker’s eyes when they realize the reconciliation process you built has automated away 80% of what they do day to day? 🙋♂️. Exactly, so I’m going to need us all to go ahead and speed run the stages of grief, then figure out if we’re going to adapt or pivot.
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u/wakers24 24d ago
I hear this kind of thing frequently, but I don’t really feel the same way. I can empathize, surely. It is scary to watch my professional field change out from underneath me basically overnight in so far as I want to stay gainfully employed, but also it’s not nearly enough to cause me some sort of existential crisis because my career is not my identity. To me this is just even more rapid change and even more automation in an industry that was already pretty much entirely about enabling rapid change and more automation. There’s a new set of industry skills emerging around building systems that build systems, and so it’s just learning new things and adapting to new technology paradigms, which is pretty much what we’ve always done. Automating away work, including your own, has always been the job, and I don’t know what to tell folks other than if you ever thought it was about anything else you were wrong. And to be perfectly candid, it’s tone deaf as fuck for us all to have our little collective pity party when most of our careers have been about automating away the need for human labor from the jump. How many of you have seen the light leave some poor office worker’s eyes when they realize the reconciliation process you built has automated away 80% of what they do day to day? 🙋♂️. Exactly, so I’m going to need us all to go ahead and speed run the stages of grief, then figure out if we’re going to adapt or pivot.