Yeah...
Some of these interviews, between shit like this, and 2026 tech keynotes is starting to sound Hella dystopian.



These guys aren't even being shy about it anymore.
They are now straight up saying they are selling ai to other companies on the premise that ai provides fast results while human labor takes years to obtain and train.
Is your job safe should be a question you ask yourself.

"Buy our products so you don't have to hire people"

We already knew that 100s of thousands to millions of workers are having career options lost or changed by ai.
We already saw this with advances in personal computing decades ago. Many people never made it back to a good economic standing.
Legitimately curious if world governments will take the next step forward to protect their citizens' livelihoods.
A person shouldn't have to compete against a machine to put food on the table. They didn't see it last time. Will they see it this time?

https://youtu.be/ugNnw4lAMWA?si=DEhZ74yAF2r6dEym

The current US government as usual can be expected to do nothing because the fortune 100 suite owns them.

The ai bubble can't pop fast enough.

ive been saying this would happen for almost 15 years in pard and was called a kook. the robots are coming for you, swear allegiance to the clankers before its too late. its already too late to stop it from happening, all you can do is survive what is to come.

Not long ago there was the tongue and cheek saying of learn to code as many struggled on main street America. We've come full circle today with coding going from 100% human to probably 90+% generated by AI very soon. The updated 'learn to code' is 'become an entrepreneur'.

I work in finance and this isn't limited to tech. AI is being pushed so fucking hard that you can't go a day without hearing about it. I have an inside joke on my team that when a managing director mentions it i need to respond and tell him i already have a Lord and Savior, because fuck me it's being treated as the end all be all. Pretty much everyone in the org has anxiety about it. Mgt wont say it out loud but we all know that the perceived productivity gains of today are the headcount reductions shortly thereafter. We have one guy resigning in two weeks, going to a different bank and we already know that his req wont be opened again, similarly to last time someone quit, they just tell us to leverage AI for the remaining team to do more with less. In reality the AI is incrementally beneficial, sure makes some things easier to do but you still need to audit it a ton and check for DQ/hallucinations and so on.

It's the reason why Nasdaq & SP500 is going parabolic, labor is a huge cost. CEOs and board are rewarded for pushing AI, so naturally the whole herd does it. We can find ourself in a scenario where all these AI companies crash but that doesn't mean humans are coming back and you will see huge headcount reversal.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Jun 1 2026 11:04am

the thing with these models too is in any sector as it seems to struggle and make massive mistakes that's just it learning. humans are terrible at learning from mistakes, if it doesnt hurt or cause public shame its a crap shoot if they'll even remember long term. maybe a day or week, but a year later they might make the same mistake and not realize it until it all goes sideways again. large models eat mistakes like food an commit them to forever memory.

that's why LLMs and photo editor AIs progressed so fast. helped along by a MASSIVE user base that fed them mistakes to spur progress. as these get implemented more and more the mistakes will disappear exponentially too, or at least far quicker than people expect.

the sad truth is no where is safe. we're all gazan refugees now trying to guess where the bombs wont fall. you can make a business and it might be irrelevant in 15 years. you can be a doctor and find out that in 15 years only 50% of the doctors we need today are required. its easy to point out things that will just be gone, like legal clarks or data entry into systems, but its REALLY hard to predict beyond that. imo dont bother trying to plan for what your kids are going to do, instead make the best doomsday plan you can for the potential reality your kids might do nothing. its hard to do nothing and be happy, but its almost impossible if you dont plan for it.

Going to push my kid to become a social worker servicing remote areas.

AI is weak now due to the necessity of constantly reviewing its output but it will only improve much like the computer did. It was deemed pretty clunky at first and now look at us.

We are all having some anxiety, not so much for myself but for my kids and I can't even imagine what grandkids would or will face.

I work in finance and vibe code pet projects with Claude on the side. There is no fucking way AI replaces real people. It will become just another tool you use as a personal assistant / data analyst - but I don’t see it replacing human relationship business.

For now AI falls apart hilariously on its face when faced with a real world problem and is naturally limited to how it was trained / constraints like memory windows which need to get order of magnitude bigger for it to compete with humans.

See eg:
https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

I agree that it wont ever be a 100% replacement. I don't know what that percentage it is though, i personally don't even think they'd want wide-scale layoffs relating to it. If it happens it will be a slow multi year bleed so not to trigger mass scale riots. I keep telling my team that its not likely we get laid off anytime soon but the trick with any of this is to never be in the bottom 25%, in reality you want to be in the upper 25% because those people will always be needed.

Ironically on the bold, this morning i was listening on a call where our head of department (few thousand people rolling up to him) was saying to us that in the future, the counterparties AI will basically send a request to our AI (i.e. they need a standby letter of credit) and our AI will basically do the pricing/spread w.e. but still with some human check function, which is scary because if that's the case even stuff that's very relationship heavy is at risk. If an RM can leverage AI to do 75% of the job, then all of the sudden you don't need as many RMs for the same number of relationships.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Jun 1 2026 11:56am

we joke about baristas

perhaps they will be having the last laugh as they dip their biscotti

They just might. We will be paying a premium for human connections, our baristas will be expecting large tips for the human touch.

the same thing that happened to d2 when botting became mainstream will happen with the world economy, difficulty competing in regards to creating wealth + surplus goods. There will be both good and bad here, and there indeed will be growing pains.

Ask yourself this: did botting improve or decrease the quality of the economy, the acquisition of goods, and free up time spent otherwise doing menial tasks? The answers are varied with pros and cons on both sides.

'Hold onto yer butts'