Posted on 02/12/2026 4:17:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Matt Shumer warns that AI is reshaping industries like law, finance, and customer service, urging professionals to adapt quickly to stay relevant.
Artificial intelligence could eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years, according to tech entrepreneur Matt Shumer, who says the shift is unfolding faster than most people realise.
Shumer, founder and CEO of AI firm OthersideAI (HyperWrite), made the remarks in a widely shared essay titled Something Big Is Happening. In it, he compared the current AI moment to early 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted economies and daily life across the world.
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Or an empty womb epidemic in the work place making everyone constantly walk on egg shells. Egg shells are meant for the hen house scrap pile after breakfast is made.
We are now witnessing our government actively sponsoring and pushing more money into areas where the entire point is to get rid of the inefficient human laborer. Tens of billions from citizens to destroy those ‘jobs’. Good luck out there.
For those of us old enough to recall, this is the same kind of silliness we heard 35 years ago, except the word was “computers.” Computers were going to replace virtually all entry level workers. Humans would no longer be needed as computers would do everything. Computers were going to do this, going to do that. They took the same old mid 1990s hysteria and just replaced the word.
Here’s Shumer’s article. It’s a long read, but worthwhile, IMO.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Yes, and when the first steam-operated back-hoe was introduced,
labor unions complained about how many union laborers would be replaced.
Will probably work as well as replacing the tech jobs with Indians. It has not gone very well.
yawn, baloney
Nancy Pelosi famously said we would all become poets once we didn’t need to worry about health insurance by the graces of the wonderful Obamacare.
I see lots more poets in our future.
No doubt. AI is adept at writing spaghetti code loaded with lots of unnecessary garbage. The level of acumen around writing cleanly to the API is only as good as the last training session. When the API of the libraries is improved after the model was trained on the previous generation, you get code that doesn't work or uses a deprecated routine that will die on the next release.
It may be that AI doubles productivity.
When designing systems, picking the sweet spot of human/machine work sharing is important.
Control-U some web pages.
It’s amazing how much goes into many webpages.
AI is just another tool they obviously don't know how to use. My brother is a retired CEO of a wordlwide medical company, but he was originally head of software/hardware development for them. He occasionally still does their software projects, but he no longer hires coders. He says he lays out the framework and lets Grok AI do the rest.
They have. They call it “Post Labor Economics”.
https://medium.com/@dave-shap/what-is-post-labor-economics-a-gentle-introduction-81aa265abbe0
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