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Nurses will be the human interface for data retrieval and prescribed treatments by an AI. It will be low skilled manual labor.

Spooky23 4y ago
Nurses already do this in a hospital setting. They need to arbitrate the sometimes conflicting orders from various doctors, and actually deliver care to the patients. It’s a job that if anything will be more in demand and is fungible. As a nurse you’re not trapped in a geographical area or employer, and have a wide variety of career paths. Engineering is a feast and famine business. Once growth slows, engineers get devalued. If AI is a thing, most of the full stack engineers, front end people and SREs will experience an implosion in demand and salary. No more massages and $500k compensation. See the early 90s movie “Falling Down”. If nursing is an interest and you’re starting out, it’s a much better career in 2023 than software stuff.
- fullshark 4y ago
  I'm guessing you're a survivor of the dotcom bust, I think you shouldn't necessarily extrapolate from that scenario for the upcoming famine given the profitability of software and that it's a fundamental component of every single aspect of the economy today, but I hear you. Certain skills become useless almost overnight, as a large scale service can provide what an in-house SWE provides at a cheaper cost, and jobs get eliminated.
  - Spooky23 4y ago
    I didn’t go through that, but I started a few years later. The issue is growth. Individual prosperity is tied to growth - that’s why engineers are so well paid; they are productive employees priced based on future value. Once growth slows, value crashes. The big “if” is whether AI is as big of a deal. Personally, i think it’s a field with a lot of hype historically. But nursing is still a great career path, if for no reason other than not being stuck in particular geographical areas.

Spooky23 4y ago

Nurses already do this in a hospital setting. They need to arbitrate the sometimes conflicting orders from various doctors, and actually deliver care to the patients. It’s a job that if anything will be more in demand and is fungible. As a nurse you’re not trapped in a geographical area or employer, and have a wide variety of career paths. Engineering is a feast and famine business. Once growth slows, engineers get devalued. If AI is a thing, most of the full stack engineers, front end people and SREs will experience an implosion in demand and salary. No more massages and $500k compensation. See the early 90s movie “Falling Down”. If nursing is an interest and you’re starting out, it’s a much better career in 2023 than software stuff.

fullshark 4y ago
I'm guessing you're a survivor of the dotcom bust, I think you shouldn't necessarily extrapolate from that scenario for the upcoming famine given the profitability of software and that it's a fundamental component of every single aspect of the economy today, but I hear you. Certain skills become useless almost overnight, as a large scale service can provide what an in-house SWE provides at a cheaper cost, and jobs get eliminated.
- Spooky23 4y ago
  I didn’t go through that, but I started a few years later. The issue is growth. Individual prosperity is tied to growth - that’s why engineers are so well paid; they are productive employees priced based on future value. Once growth slows, value crashes. The big “if” is whether AI is as big of a deal. Personally, i think it’s a field with a lot of hype historically. But nursing is still a great career path, if for no reason other than not being stuck in particular geographical areas.