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What's less certain about modern environments compared to past ones?

• Uncle_Brumpus 2mo ago
  I definitely didn't have to wonder if my career choice would be invalidated by AI by the time I graduate.
  • t-3 2mo ago
    No, you would have to worry about your job being sent/lost to Mexico, Japan, China, etc. Now those jobs are already lost and we have a different vulnerability. Same story, different clothes.
    • freejazz 2mo ago
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      • t-3 2mo ago
        Downsizing and outsourcing hit all non-management positions, the only moat against it was technical expertise, but that's been eroded for quite a while. How much moaning about development being outsourced to India have we heard in the past decade?
        • krupan 2mo ago
          Past 2 decades
  • giantg2 2mo ago
    The possible end result isn't that much different than the threat of wars or the financial crises - no job, possible death, etc.
  • naasking 2mo ago
    No, in the past you just had the possibility of childhood illness and death, the death of siblings, war, famine, drought, none of which are real problems for university students these days.
  • UltraSane 2mo ago
    Imagine being a typesetter when the transition to digital printing presses was occurring.
  • IncreasePosts 2mo ago
    When I was in a CS program in the US in 2005 I heard from dozens of people as well as media pundits that it's a bad choice because all the tech jobs would be outsourced to india.