Thread 105980867 - /g/ [Archived: 260 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:34:09 PM No.105980867
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WTF are most white collar workers doing all day? If AI can replace and is already replacing most devs, then wtf are the other office workers doing that is so special? The amount of understanding and abstract thinking you need to write good code instead of just copypasting shit from GitHub like your average bootcamp monkey should be beyond whatever accountants, secretaries and managers do. AI can already make you appointments, organize data, manage workforce and create calendars, and yet there still isn't this supposed 40% white collar bloodbath.

What gives?
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:35:47 PM No.105980877
>>105980867 (OP)
>What is a female-typed job?
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:40:51 PM No.105980926
>>105980867 (OP)
Females need to be kept in the workforce so they don't accidentally have children and start voting for grabbing borders and shit.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:41:19 PM No.105980932
>>105980867 (OP)
>What gives?
99.999% of the people working don't know how to use AI. If there isn't a person that comes in during work hours, physically shows them in person how to set up
>AI can already make you appointments, organize data, manage workforce and create calendars
with a 24/7 support by phone, people will not use it. Despite what common sense says, it is easier for people to do things the old way
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:43:22 PM No.105980953
I mean, this is the real truth. They aggressively try to AI outsource SWE's but they're very far down the list of white collar jobs that can be AI'd. It's pure laziness on tech's part and probably just downstream of tech leadership's hatred of their SWE's in particular.

Right this moment you could eliminate thousands of doctor jobs, lawyer/paralegal jobs, accountant jobs, all of this busywork bullshit that can be fed right into a prompt.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:46:04 PM No.105980978
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:50:52 PM No.105981025
>>105980932
Well now OpenAI is doing AI agents that will do shit on their own, barely even have to set it up, just ask it to do X and it will try to do X
>>105980953
Probably because of edge cases for doctors, idk about the rest
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:53:51 PM No.105981056
>>105981025

The edge cases for SWEs are infinitismal, and I mean infinitismal because they force full stack on engineers now + DevOps. Think about what most non surgical doctors do

>take in some basic inputs
>try to come up with a diagnosis
>recommendation
>next

I've never experienced anything different. Obviously this will never happen rapidly due to regulation but it's overblown as a job for most. Surgeons I respect heavily but outside of that lol
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:56:29 PM No.105981075
>>105981025
>barely
you're asking too much out of people, whatever ideal of the average white collar worker you have is wrong. the "barely" is why none of the office workers are being replaced. No company is going to fire their office workers no matter how inefficient and backwards it is. Only new companies that do things with AI only from the start will do so and the other companies will keep going until their coffers run dry but because money is not real, the economy will let this inefficiency go uncorrected
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:57:09 PM No.105981080
>>105980932
^this plus AI still makes huge mistakes when left to do its own thing without direct user input. Someone has to be there to manage the AI and make sure it doesn't delete entire repositories just because it felt like it
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:57:34 PM No.105981084
This can all be proven organically. Shill AI everywhere, see which occupations naturally embrace it and love to use it

>those are the most easily AI replaceable

and then which ones complain and push against it and refuse to use it willingly

>those are hard to replace with AI
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 10:02:18 PM No.105981120
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>>105980867 (OP)
>The amount of understanding and abstract thinking you need to write good code instead of just copypasting shit from GitHub like your average bootcamp monkey should be beyond whatever accountants, secretaries and managers do
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 10:23:29 PM No.105981303
>>105981084
You are dead wrong. When it comes to images and art nobody was using AI until it became good enough to completely replace artists. There were no years of adoption where good artists utilized it to become better and do the grunt work for them, it was just that one day there was a world where AI was making muddy images and recreating very limited stuff, and then the other day it can suddenly do all artstyles and everything, but with 6 finger hands at the time.

AI in media is and was a joke until it wasnt, there was no period of usefulness as a tool.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 11:48:13 PM No.105982019
>>105980953
>doctor jobs, lawyer/paralegal jobs
If it wasn't for regulations this would've been done long ago. Their job is just handling a ton of knowledge with almost no reasoning. I bet AIs are already giving better advice than most doctors