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We are expecting to replace some of our company by 50 percent soon due to AI. Will always need someone to QC the work AI does but for the initial work the majority of workers wont be needed.

These kids need to understand that the ones who are ambitious and willing to do the hard work AI cant do will be fine. The others will struggle

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Logos Stick said:

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We are - like most of the developed world - in population decline. That is going to mitigate the impact of AI. I would still encourage kids to pursue STEM degrees, but to also seriously consider the trades. The goal being to ultimately own a business and have others working for you that actually crawl under the houses (e.g. plumbing).

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I can't see a scenario in the future-

where a robot could not replace humans crawling under houses

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How about corralling and vaccinating cows?

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Yes. That is coming too. Literally no question that it is coming and will be here in a startling quick horizon.

Ranch hand robots at $40k each! I'll take 5 please.

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These kids need to understand that the ones who are ambitious and willing to do the hard work AI cant do will be fine. The others will struggle

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For now yes.


But what about in a decade when there is very little that anyone can do that AI can't?

Here is the advice I give my daughter:

Lord loves a workin' (wo)man. Don't trust whitey. See a doctor and get rid of it.

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Martin Q. Blank said:

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In parallel with a college degree, get licensed as an electrician, plumber, or welder.

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This is good. I'd add HVAC, which I believe requires both electrical and plumbing licenses.

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if everyone else loses their decent job, who is gonna pay them?

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The Fall Guy said:

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These kids need to understand that the ones who are ambitious and willing to do the hard work AI cant do will be fine. The others will struggle

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For now yes.


But what about in a decade when there is very little that anyone can do that AI can't?

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AI cannot find property corners or do land surveys. Just like plumbing. Its a trade to learn

This is definitely something I have thought about a lot. I wanted both my boys to have practical skills and a degree so they could be hands on but also know how things work. Both are in very good physical shape and understand the value of hard work.

My eldest is now a Licensed 3rd Mate on a Tanker and can work on any ship around the globe as an officer. We are still a really long way from letting ships with a million barrels of oil just cruise along the oceans with no humans aboard so as long as they just need someone to stand watch he's got a job. He's also a licensed welder.

Youngest is getting his degree in Mechanical Engineering, has worked as an auto mechanic and can operate just about any shop tool up to a 5 axis CNC Mill and has was captain of a championship robotics team. He wants to either design medical devices or go to med school. Mainly he is a very disciplined and hard working kid and pretty smart (taking Diff EQ as a Freshman and has an A currently) so I think he will be fine.

I think the world to come will be one of wolves and sheep, I did my best to raise two wolves. Hopefully it doesn't come to that but they are both as prepared as I could make them.

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AI cannot find property corners or do land surveys.

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Yet.

AI still has some kinks that need to be ironed out before all of the coders are out of work.

amazon's internal A.I. coding assistant decided the engineers' existing code was inadequate so the bot deleted it to start from scratch

that resulted in taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours and was not the first time it had happened

incrediblehttps://t.co/K5dW15ioVH pic.twitter.com/Z9ZIrCgdB4

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) February 20, 2026

Well, there goes Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics". The AI just does what it wants like Cartman.

Son of Anton!

I just used Claude OPUS 4.6 to develop a website for my GF. She does Mahjong classes, leagues, and events. It created several thousand lines of HTML/JavaScript. I chose to use Node.js+Express with a SQLlite database on the backend. I don't write HTML or Javascript. I don't do web development.

I did not write a single piece of code: no HTML, no Javascript, no CSS, no SQL, no backend API calls... Nothing. I have a fully functional website, database, and integrated payment systems. It also created an admin site she can use to manage the backend database. Pretty much everything on the main forms: text, images, pics, fonts, etc... are stored in the database to make them dynamic and changeable.

It was easy and fast, just telling it what to do. Amazing.


Good luck to the Utes!

More kids should look towards the trades or skilled labor, wouldn't this be way more fun than pencil pushing in an office all day?

Excavator operator having fun with an abandoned plane at a junkyard. pic.twitter.com/i52Nu4T51z

— Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) February 25, 2026

Logos Stick said:

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I just used Claude OPUS 4.6 to develop a website for my GF. She does Mahjong classes, leagues, and events. It created several thousand lines of HTML/JavaScript. I chose to use Node.js+Express with a SQLlite database on the backend. I don't write HTML or Javascript. I don't do web development.

I did not write a single piece of code: no HTML, no Javascript, no CSS, no SQL, no backend API calls... Nothing. I have a fully functional website, database, and integrated payment systems. It also created an admin site she can use to manage the backend database. Pretty much everything on the main forms: text, images, pics, fonts, etc... are stored in the database to make them dynamic and changeable.

It was easy and fast, just telling it what to do. Amazing.


Good luck to the Utes!

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Does it use a platform like Wordpress or Shopify?

How can you guarantee that it's bug free if you don't know how to debug, yourself? And how do you know that it's secure?

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Be adaptable.

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I had a long drive yesterday and listened to a segment on Bloomberg. Scared the crap out of me.

Doomsday guys say 12-24 month for jobs where you look at a computer screen most of the day. He thought it will be longer than that.

His thought was this: if what the computer generates can immediately be tested and verified, you are F'ed. The prime example is coding/programming. It codes and then can immediately test it. SaaS is screwed.

I think accounting/finance is toast.

I am a lawyer and I think the transactional-type jobs are toast. Courtroom is safe for a while.

He wouldn't give an estimate but said, look, in 100 years all the jobs we know now will not exist. It is not a matter of if, but when.

Ive been watching companies like amazon and others say that they will see a significant rise in revenue while keeping employment flat or slightly dipping, that's going to happen.

Job loss should not be anywhere near the top of your concerns for AI. Job loss is a long term benefit of AI. That no one will be working for a living in 100 years (way shorter timeframe than that, more like 15-20) is a good thing. The thing you should worry about is the power it places in the hands of the average individual and what they might do with it, and the power it places in itself and what it might do with it. A super intelligent system with bad intentions either of its own volition or directed by a malevolent human is far more concerning. Job loss is a net win in the long run.

The long term outlook of society is likely to be robots walking streets and people sitting at a loom weaving clothing for the novelty/human touch that comes from human creation. Workers looking like the 1800's, society looking like 2100. It will be an entirely optional enterprise.

Simple thing I tell my 15 year old son:

Make sure that if you are training for an office type job you also have a lucrative hands-on skill also.

For him it is the desire now to get a degree in structural engineering while ALSO learning to be a welder. He is in a Youth apprenticeships program already. He is also learning to be a diver as well because of the potential of being an underwater welder and how much it pays $$$.

He wants to be an Aggie... but Auburn or Tennessee are quite honestly more feasible.

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Job loss should not be anywhere near the top of your concerns for AI. Job loss is a long term benefit of AI. That no one will be working for a living in 100 years (way shorter timeframe than that, more like 15-20) is a good thing.

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We need a downvote button. All well and good until you're the one getting the axe.

Gen AI may kill a bunch of arts and communication jobs (writing, journalism, etc), but I could see where others may be immune or even thrive - especially in live performing arts like music or stage acting. I don't think anyone would rather watch robot Romeo & Juliet.

Many of those jobs don't pay well, but who knows. Maybe that could improve.

Also teaching… I'm not sold on AI teaching. A computer can't foster curiosity or perseverance. It also can't wield authority to make a kid sit down and shut up.

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Logos Stick said:

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I just used Claude OPUS 4.6 to develop a website for my GF. She does Mahjong classes, leagues, and events. It created several thousand lines of HTML/JavaScript. I chose to use Node.js+Express with a SQLlite database on the backend. I don't write HTML or Javascript. I don't do web development.

I did not write a single piece of code: no HTML, no Javascript, no CSS, no SQL, no backend API calls... Nothing. I have a fully functional website, database, and integrated payment systems. It also created an admin site she can use to manage the backend database. Pretty much everything on the main forms: text, images, pics, fonts, etc... are stored in the database to make them dynamic and changeable.

It was easy and fast, just telling it what to do. Amazing.


Good luck to the Utes!

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Does it use a platform like Wordpress or Shopify?

How can you guarantee that it's bug free if you don't know how to debug, yourself? And how do you know that it's secure?

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Because benchmarks say the top coding AIs are world class at debugging and security assessments

Logos Stick said:

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I just used Claude OPUS 4.6 to develop a website for my GF. She does Mahjong classes, leagues, and events. It created several thousand lines of HTML/JavaScript. I chose to use Node.js+Express with a SQLlite database on the backend. I don't write HTML or Javascript. I don't do web development.

I did not write a single piece of code: no HTML, no Javascript, no CSS, no SQL, no backend API calls... Nothing. I have a fully functional website, database, and integrated payment systems. It also created an admin site she can use to manage the backend database. Pretty much everything on the main forms: text, images, pics, fonts, etc... are stored in the database to make them dynamic and changeable.

It was easy and fast, just telling it what to do. Amazing.


Good luck to the Utes!

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I had an idea for a mobile app so I bought $25 of credits from replit to give it a whirl (replit is a mobile app vibe coding platform built on the foundation models). I'm 3-4 hours and 18 bucks in and I'm probably 60-70% complete. And we're not talking about a bare bones solitaire app either. This thing makes API calls to use external data processing services, keeps multiple SQL tables, uses maps to find nearby events, blah blah. I can probably finish and launch it with another 3-4 hours and 20-30 bucks.

I grew up programming for fun and have continued as an adult (always enjoyed the problem solving element). It took me about 5 minutes to realize that this skill is now completely dead and pointless (unless I'm doing it for pure enjoyment). This thing blasted out code in minutes that would've taken a pro days and me weeks to build. Craziest part: when it implements something and I give feedback (you did it this way but I want it to look like X), the AI will modify code and then boot up an app instance to test and confirm that the changes are correct and work as expected.

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hph6203 said:

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Job loss should not be anywhere near the top of your concerns for AI. Job loss is a long term benefit of AI. That no one will be working for a living in 100 years (way shorter timeframe than that, more like 15-20) is a good thing.

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We need a downvote button. All well and good until you're the one getting the axe.

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I was laid off in January. Most people have a false impression of what money is, why they have a job, and whether or not it is an inherent necessity that they dedicate 1/3rd of their life to it. That AI is coming for people of all economic status is a good thing. There will be no conflict between the white collar and blue collar crowd as to how to resolve the issues that come from it.

Money is not real.

The AI companies that claim they will cause lots of job losses are the very companies that are hiring aggressively overseas and even in the US for software dev jobs.

Even they know that their tall claims will fall flat.

Offshoring work doesn't mean that AI isn't disrupting. Either the Indians are improving in their technical capacity and offshoring to them reduces cost relative to an equivalently technical individual in the U.S. (your version) or alternatively AI is reducing the technical skill necessary to complete the tasks and offshoring to a less technically capable work force is a more viable option as a result (alternative explanation).

If AI was doing what is claimed you'd still see offshoring activity occurring so that funds could be reallocated to building intelligence rather than paying for it.

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Offshoring work doesn't mean that AI isn't disrupting. Either the Indians are improving in their technical capacity and offshoring to them reduces cost relative to an equivalently technical individual in the U.S. (your version) or alternatively AI is reducing the technical skill necessary to complete the tasks and offshoring to a less technically capable work force is a more viable option as a result (alternative explanation).

If AI was doing what is claimed you'd still see offshoring activity occurring so that funds could be reallocated to building intelligence rather than paying for it.

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The same companies are hiring locally also. If their AI was as good, they would have laid off most of their own engineers and not hired more. In other words, AI is not replacing jobs in any meaningful manner right now. Tomorrow? No idea, no one knows.

I'm urging my son (2nd year Accounting student at Texas Tech) to consider adding a skilled craft to his education and experience....I&E, Mechanic/Millwright, Electrician, Instrumentation/Analyzer, etc.

With a few years experience, a skilled craft worker in a large Refinery / Chemical plant is making $55/hour or more straight time, with built in OT as well as shutdown/turnaround time. Offshore it's quite a bit more on the 14/14 schedule.

Difference between process jobs and creation jobs. Digital process jobs are more at risk currently (what I was laid off from, think banking, mortgage, lots of aspects of insurance and healthcare), digital creation jobs are going to have an oversight period, then physical process jobs (warehousing, manufacturing), then bespoke physical jobs (HVAC, Plumber, electrician, surgeons etc).

I think 2027 is going to be the year of realization that AI is a great tool with profound impact, but the money and infrastructure needed and the use case isn't as far along as being pushed by non-technical CEOs. We honestly don't even know if our electrical grid (at certain bottlenecks) can handle the almost doubling usage allocated to data centers required in the next several years. Probably going to end up with modular nuclear sites.

They have to embrace using AI as a co-pilot to work smarter and faster, or they will get lapped.

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How may of these will Buc-ee's need?

You eventually start to realize, no job is safe. pic.twitter.com/sCKmtg4B99

— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) February 11, 2026

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This is a robot. Not AI.

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That's the point. The combination of AI and fully articulated robots will replace every job as we know it. Those saying that vo-tech jobs are safe are only looking at phase 1 of the AI impact.

Best I can figure, is the only job that is safe is a politician.