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>knowing that your job will sooner or later be taken over by AI?

There's a few layers that make me not worried:

- automation will shift jobs

- an engineer is a generally smart employee (yes, even the average engineers), so the company will be a sinking ship if they have to eliminate jobs and get rid of people instead of moving smart people around

- even if you do end up jobless, as a generally smart person, you can learn a new skill. Plus, now AI can help you learn more quickly.

The catch is, of course, predicting which next job won't be replaced by AI.




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