AI Took My Job — And That's Okay
✨ "AI took my job. Or more accurately, it reminded me how fragile and temporary any system can be."
The First Time I Felt It
For the first time in my adult life, I experienced what I always knew would happen.
AI took my job.
Or more accurately, AI and everything around it—automation, integration, and the quiet shift in how we work—started reshaping the landscape I've worked in for decades. Like the early days of the internet, this change feels both inevitable and surprising.
But this isn't bad news. It's simply the next phase of what's always been true: technology evolves faster than people do.
Adjusting to the New Landscape
When I first got online, everything was changing—industries, education, creativity, even how people met each other. This is the same kind of moment, just accelerated and amplified. It's less about "machines replacing humans" and more about the knowledge economy recalibrating itself.
AI impacts hiring. It's reshuffling priorities, rethinking what "valuable work" means, and forcing both individuals and organizations to adapt. At the same time, macro forces like government slowdowns and funding freezes remind us that humans still run the systems AI operates within.
So what do you do when the wave hits? You bootstrap. You stay curious. You look for the upswing.
Maybe that's 2030. Maybe sooner.
A Robot on Preorder
In the meantime, I did what any rational technologist might do in a moment of existential uncertainty: I pre‑ordered a 5‑foot‑6 bipedal robot.
Refundable, of course.
My logic? If I can teach it to pack boxes, maybe it'll pay for itself.
We laugh about robots replacing jobs, but there's something honest about exploring that edge—about asking what's next when the thing you built your identity around starts automating itself out of relevance.
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What AI Really Took
AI didn't take my job. It took away the illusion that stability in a knowledge economy lasts forever. It reminded me how fast we all need to adapt.
If we ever get rid of the operating system—metaphorically or literally—we're toast.
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