Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

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Considering human nature, Star Trek isn't going to happen. Much MUCH more likely to be a dystopian hellscape of some kind (pick your fav movie). So no, I'm not going to hope for the fall of capitalism where I'll retire rich and young.

@b5 and @b6

Sorry, not sorry, that my purpose for living is not to work a majority of my waking hours. Just because you'll go stir-crazy because nobody wants to be around you, and you don't have any enjoyable hobbies, doesn't mean the rest of us enjoy this rat race.

Do away with this capitalist BS and bring on Star Trek already.

@ae UBI = Universal Basic Income. UBI acronym unknown by vast majority of people who work and never heard of this.

Whoa dude - you must have posted this by mistake -- think this was intended as query for some AI to help you out -- e.g., Grok 3, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity AI, Kompas AI.

And dude, you get the bonus points on a very nIce power D-I-C-K move -- "do my work for me -- cuz I am out on PTO"

• don't expect anything, fool.

AI will never do HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, construction.... you know, manual labor.

so, I'd hop to it 'entitled' and learn a skill, like mowing lawns/plowing driveways, working at Home Depot(I hear those jobs are opening up). your 'I'm on PTO, but give some ideas' foolishness, is tiresome. Go out an earn a living.

@as I think in 2 years it will be a lot more mature and capable, but I think it will take longer for it to work its way through the economy. I suspect it will be a slow drain, unfortunately. But who knows, 2 years with massive unemployment would probably be better. Just rip the band-aid off and we'll be forced to confront it with massive reform.

@af Could be less than two years with some of the predictions.

When jobs start going away and people start starving, congress will be a very uncomfortable place to be.

So, if you can, you don't work in an office?

@ad Literally no jobs here really matter to the world.

@ae It's the time between that's going to su-k. Hopefully it's quick.

The end of the AI progression is UBI and 100% leisure time.

I, for one, welcome that endgame.

Sorry to hear that your vast majority of office work wasn't really needed but don't project that onto the rest of us. Have some self respect and get a job that matters to the world.

I'm building an AI integrated SaaS app that will be hosted in Google cloud. I have formal technical education, but never went down the engineering path. I've always been tech adjacent, but never spent a lot of time just coding things. So during downtime, this is what I'm doing on the side.

So far I've made some pretty cool features, and from this vantage point, I think software engineers are on borrowed time. I have yet to hit a point where I have been unable to clear a technical hurdle (bugs, broken components, etc) with creative prompting and AI tool usage. When it comes to scaling and maintainability on large enterprise, multi-code base applications, engineers will be needed for a while; particularly monolithic apps with messy legacy code. But the rate at which the technology is improving will continue to chip away at that expertise. Probably faster than most of us are willing to accept.

I really loathe WF management. To the core. But they are not wrong when they say AI is going to transform everything. Even their jobs will be at risk.

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@a2 makes sense

@a1 No, we should learn a new trade.

Should we learn a new technical skill?