Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to

Technology · 1 year ago

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

123

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to

Technology · 1 year ago

AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.

Chat

Corngood ( Corngood@lemmy.ml )
link
fedilink
arrow-up
28·
edit-2
1 year ago
Zero chance this company replaced him with an AI that actually does anything useful.
- Zaktor ( Zaktor@sopuli.xyz )
  link
  fedilink
  English
  arrow-up
  24·
  1 year ago
  It’s kind of by definition. They’re working on the metaverse.

Technology

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

120 users / day
822 users / week
2.21K users / month
5.18K users / 6 months
5.11K local subscribers
43.6K subscribers
6.4K Posts
107K Comments
Modlog