StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
For you techie guys worried about your jobs due to AI, I dont know anything about tech/AI, but I think the opportunities are huge if any tech worker can somehow get into the AI game. I'm not even talking about being a hardcore coder guy. But peripheral jobs too related to it like sales and marketing or project management. Be the sales guy/client manager. You got enough tech experience to talk to the customer, but dont do any coding.
A lot of big companies out there (especially my industry of consumer goods) are typically old school. AI is the last thing on our mind. We just care about traditionally making shit and selling and shipping it. But all the programs and software we use are all external programs. I've never worked at a place where internal employees built programs. There might be people hired who know how to maintain it, but not build it. Were used to all the boring shit like Office, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle databases, Manugistics etc... Anytime we need help for software, the finance, marketing or sales departments source out companies who know software. The amount of companies hired to layer on top of each other different data sets that feed into this or that, and then it spits out nicely consolidated data for us is always happening. Then suddenly, it's announced another company got hired and anyone interested can join training sessions how to use it.
None of this shit is made in house. Our kind of companies have no idea what we are doing, so we source out tech companies to do it for us.
If you guys need to transition to different roles due to AI taking over your job, see if your skills can be applied to AI and find all those companies that need help adding it to their company. Believe it or not, a lot of big companies you'd think think have the best systems ever. Total BS. Many big companies have trash systems or are still MS Excel dependent.
I dont know how AI is supposed to fix stuff as all I think about is ChatGPT and making AI generated pictures. But if AI can truly get to fixing a company's strategy or analysis or streamlining processes, every company will be open ears.
The money is out there. You guys are in tech, you know the budgets are out there. Heck, so many of us have annual user licenses for software programs we use once per year. Couldnt give shit about it. But the IT department can get shit tons of budget, so nobody cares if all these seat license fees are half a waste of money.
A lot of big companies out there (especially my industry of consumer goods) are typically old school. AI is the last thing on our mind. We just care about traditionally making shit and selling and shipping it. But all the programs and software we use are all external programs. I've never worked at a place where internal employees built programs. There might be people hired who know how to maintain it, but not build it. Were used to all the boring shit like Office, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle databases, Manugistics etc... Anytime we need help for software, the finance, marketing or sales departments source out companies who know software. The amount of companies hired to layer on top of each other different data sets that feed into this or that, and then it spits out nicely consolidated data for us is always happening. Then suddenly, it's announced another company got hired and anyone interested can join training sessions how to use it.
None of this shit is made in house. Our kind of companies have no idea what we are doing, so we source out tech companies to do it for us.
If you guys need to transition to different roles due to AI taking over your job, see if your skills can be applied to AI and find all those companies that need help adding it to their company. Believe it or not, a lot of big companies you'd think think have the best systems ever. Total BS. Many big companies have trash systems or are still MS Excel dependent.
I dont know how AI is supposed to fix stuff as all I think about is ChatGPT and making AI generated pictures. But if AI can truly get to fixing a company's strategy or analysis or streamlining processes, every company will be open ears.
The money is out there. You guys are in tech, you know the budgets are out there. Heck, so many of us have annual user licenses for software programs we use once per year. Couldnt give shit about it. But the IT department can get shit tons of budget, so nobody cares if all these seat license fees are half a waste of money.
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