Which jobs do you think will disappear and which will be created? (in the online space)
I keep hearing and reading about how programmers are at risk; basically, everything that can be replaced by AI is at risk.
Yesterday, Lenny Rachitsky shared a post that PM openings are at the highest levels since 2022.
At the same time, I read how big giants (Meta, Amazon, etc.) are laying off engineers because of AI, and then I read about how they had to hire back again because something managed by AI went wrong.
So which positions are really disappearing online, and which are emerging?
I assume that security-related positions will emerge more.
BTW... adding also an assumption made in 2012 by one author who predicted dying vs emerging jobs. – image from the book The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need To Know
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The jobs disappearing are the ones doing the repeatable execution. Junior analysts, entry-level coders, basic content writers, aka the work that follows a predictable pattern every time.
What's emerging is anything that sits at the boundary between AI output and human judgment. People who can evaluate, direct, and correct AI rather than just produce. Prompt engineers are the obvious example, but it goes deeper than that.
We see this directly as we work on building CoreSight. The ex-McKinsey consultants on the team aren't being replaced by the agents, they're the ones who encoded the frameworks that make the agents useful in the first place. The expertise didn't disappear, it just moved upstream.
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@andreitudor14 It will be kinda difficult for young people to get experience when juniors are not needed. Only people who will have ambitions will be able to learn faster (and probably their motivation will not be emloyed, but run a business).
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i for one, would like to be the first space travel agent. DM me if you want an itinerary 😜
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@anneliese You should email to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson to make your dreams come true :D
Copywriting as a standalone profession is already fading. I see it firsthand at my day job. Our content budget dropped from $15,000 to $2,000. Same output, fraction of the cost, because AI handles what used to require a team of writers.
The one wildcard: Google could introduce AI-content filters at some point, which might flip the script and make human-written content valuable again.
What might survive is 'creative direction' - knowing what to say and to whom, even if AI does the actual writing. But that's a fundamentally different job than copywriting
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@virtualviki Copywriting was the first, as soon as ChatGPT appeared at the beginning of 2024, I was told: Do more articles with the tool at the same price, or lower the price per article. So I knew that I was losing the client :D
Something nobody's mentioned yet: this shift looks completely different from the recruiting side. When roles merge every six months and job titles stop meaning what they used to, the entire way we evaluate candidates breaks down. Traditional hiring pipelines were built for stable roles with clear skill sets, and now the best hires I see are people with messy, non-linear backgrounds who connect dots across domains. The real emerging job might not just be 'AI output auditor'; it might be the people who figure out what the new roles should even look like.