Yep. Many people are thinking about the much longer term when AI eventually replaces almost all jobs.
In the short term you don't have to outrun the bear just outrun your competitors.
Posted on 04/23/2026 1:41:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The warnings about AI’s impact on jobs echo from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Washington, D.C. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks you should worry less about the robots and more about your coworker, the one quietly “tokenmaxxing,” or using AI to do in minutes what takes you hours.
In a recent interview with former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster at the Stanford Graduate School of Business alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Huang said AI won’t exactly replace you. Instead, it’s possible you’ll be replaced by the worker who’s boosted their productivity by using AI.
“It is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI,” Huang said in the interview published last week. “It is most likely that most people will lose their job to somebody who uses AI. And so we have to make sure that everybody uses AI.”
The statement is a break from what other business leaders have warned about the technology. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the technology will wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has said the same, and gave it about 18 months until that becomes a reality.
At the same time, there’s growing discontent among workers over AI adoption. KPMG found in November that four in 10 workers fear AI could take their job. And a report from AI enterprise platform Writer found that 29% of workers are actively sabotaging their company’s AI strategy, with about one-third of those citing fear of AI for doing so.
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It’s basically like what happened when Excel Spreadsheets became widely used in the workplace.
If you knew pivot tables you were golden. Now AI does that for you :)
Learn how to use Pytorch.
Even the Nvida CEO comes right out and admits to the encroachment of AI gradually filling up the tank with warming waters of efficiency. The average employee plays the part of the Happy Frog, not a care in the world, until the slow boiling begins.
I remember doing a presentation to a bunch of doctors using pivot charts and PowerPoint (way back in the day.)
One of them told me they “Looked at you like you were friggin’ Harry Potter.”
Those were fun days.
You have already lost you job to one of the +-5 million H1B visa holders brought here into the USA over the last 10 years. They are just going to use AI as an excuse why you cant find a tech job. One of the largest scams in history. Nobody knows about it.
Also learn how to navigate the Hugging Face site. I now have a model running locally on my MacBook, using LM Studio. It’s probably good enough for 80% of the tasks I need AI for. I also have a Claude Pro account for the ‘heavy lifting’, but by offloading other tasks to my local machine, it saves tokens.
sounds true
So when they put everyone but the manual laborers out of work who will buy their products? I think the tech oligarchs and politicians are building a worldwide gulag.
2 hunters are running in the woods like wild men. One says to the other “we’ll never outrun this bear!”. The other hunter says “I don’t need to outrun the bear I just need to outrun you!”.
The PowerPoint Ranger Creed
This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it but mine is 97. My PowerPoint is my best friend.
It is my life. I must master it as I master my life.
My PowerPoint without me is useless. Without my PowerPoint, I am useless. I must format my slides true. I must brief them better than the other staff sections who are trying to out brief me. I must brief the impact on the CINC before he asks me. I will.
My PowerPoint and myself know that what counts in this war is not the information. We know that it is the number of slides, the colors of the highlights, and the format of the bullets that counts. My PowerPoint is human, even as I, because it is my life.
Thus I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its fonts, its accessories, its formats, and its colors. I will keep my PowerPoint slides current and ready to brief. We will become part of each other. We will…
Before God I swear this creed. My PowerPoint and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our subject. We are the saviors of my career. So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace (and the next exercise)!
Rangers Lead the Way!!
Yep. Many people are thinking about the much longer term when AI eventually replaces almost all jobs.
In the short term you don't have to outrun the bear just outrun your competitors.
He’s right.
And companies that don’t transform quickly using AI will lose to companies built on AI from the ground up.
Learn AI, fine. But also learn skills that don’t require modern technology.
That is the dominant idea I have been hearing on the business news shows with interviews with top people in different industries - A.I. will in most cases add a supplement - a tool - to how work is being done more than outright eliminating work. That is not to say some work will not be eliminated by A.I., just that it will not eliminate more jobs than the jobs it will enhance and create.
And, one top executive this morning was pointing out that because of how A.I. gets done - massive A.I. server farms - the infrastructure for A.I. is right now short of electricians and server farm maintenance people (the people that install update and maintain the telecommunications infrastructure) to the tune of about 700,000 over the next decade. When it comes right down to it, some of the old fashioned skilled technology infrastructure trades are jobs A.I. is not only not going to get rid of, but increase demand for.
2 hunters are running in the woods like wild men. One says to the other “we’ll never outrun this bear!”. The other hunter says “I don’t need to outrun the bear I just need to outrun you!”.
Whereupon the first hunter cold-cocks the second hunter and jogs away.
How do you stop it? While some think that the energy and water consumption issues will slow it down, eventually those hurdles will be overcome.
Eventually most of the AI processing will be done on local devices without the necessity for as many server farms.
Perhaps in ten years, your iPhone will have an embedded LLM as powerful as the ones we have now.
I had a CEO that hated graphs and graphical presentations of data; he just wanted to see the numbers. Me, myself, I wanted to see the trends in the numbers. I’d give him the rows of data, and I’d analyze the direction of things by the graphs and charts. We’d both come to the same conclusions.
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