SatoriSlu t1_iymr8dn wrote on December 2, 2022 at 3:37 PM

I have a question...I listen to "unsupervised learning" podcast. He has been constantly mentioning that these new generative AI models are going to take over alot of future cognitive work. He then goes on to say, "everyone needs to be ready for this". But what does that actually mean, concretely? What am I supposed to do to get ready? I'm already working in tech as a DevOps Engineer.

Do you feel like there will be a future need for "programmers" or "prompters" who know how to interact with with these AI and pick the right data sets instead of actually knowing how to write "syntax"?

ahtoshkaa2 t1_iyqga84 wrote on December 3, 2022 at 10:23 AM

I'm a copywriter and I'm getting ready by earning as much money as I can right now and integrating ai into my work flow because I'll be out of work in the next 10 years or so.

I'll be fixing up one of my apartments and will rent it out when the time comes.

This is one field that will not be taken by ai. Everyone needs a place to live.

RelicDerelict t1_iypztsz wrote on December 3, 2022 at 6:28 AM

You will be probably fine with your experience. DevOps is about a lot of communication among teams, AI can't do that yet. But for me, I feel very depressed after everyone told me to learn to code, I don't think I will get junior position ever.

arkuw t1_iyyg5kt wrote on December 5, 2022 at 2:49 AM

I generally think of "devops" as a dying career. Yes the "cloud" created a lot of need for people who understand system administration and can apply it to swarms of computers (aka the cloud).

But cloud vendors realize that the next value add for them is to start working towards eliminating the need for "devops". Thus new platforms are emerging that stitch together common compute, db, storage and messaging components in a way that is palatable to most cloud customers thus reducing greatly the need for a "devops" team at customer companies.

So a "devops" career strikes me as a perilous career, AI takeover or not.

In the context of this thread howeveer, I'm thinking that the LLMs are more likely to impact programmers first. However it's the cloud vendors themselves that are working hard at eliminating jobs for "devops" people. That's the whole goal of "serverless" after all.

SatoriSlu t1_izsvffi wrote on December 11, 2022 at 4:35 PM

You may be right. Although I think there's a shift to a more defined role in 'platform engineering'. In my experience, the business users are not programmers, but they have the domain knowledge, so they need guidance on what technologies to use and how to stitch them together.

I think there will be a shift to understanding which technologies to stitch together, proper configuration of those platforms, and securing them. The so called, providing 'golden paths' for business users to ingest philosophy.

But, anyway, I think I'm gonna shift to learn more 'analysis' like roles. I believe that's where humans will ultimately move towards, feeding these systems data, asking the right questions, learning how to prompt them, visualize the output, and analyze more deeply.

balder1991 t1_j04b2f5 wrote on December 13, 2022 at 11:38 PM

I don’t think that IT jobs are going away anytime soon because despite we create things to make our work easier, there’s always a performance cost involved. You can’t add layers forever to push the complexity under the carpet. At some point, when something breaks, we need to be able to understand it and fix it, even if there is an AI helping us debug things faster.