Yes — AI Will Take Your 'Job'
Not to end your career. To hand you a new one. The question is whether you'll take it.
Let’s not dance around it. The job you are doing right now — in its current shape and form — will be taken over by AI. Not might be. Will be.
If you’re a developer, you already feel it. You don’t write code from scratch anymore. You don’t write tests from scratch. Some of you don’t write tests at all — you describe what you want and something else writes them. That trajectory doesn’t flatten out.
But here’s what the doomers get wrong, and what the cheerleaders gloss over:
Your job isn’t being deleted. It’s being recast.
Now — the panic. Companies are scrambling. Some senior leaders are already doing the math: if AI can do what you do, why do we need you? That’s a real conversation happening in real boardrooms and it’s terrifying. But that’s a different post.
What I’m talking about here is something more personal: stop being married to your old job responsibilities.
You know the ones. The boilerplate work you’ve been grinding through for years. That one tool or skill you mastered — AIX, Business Objects, SQL admin, take your pick — and the slow, repetitive, laborious work that came with it. The thing you became the go-to person for because nobody else wanted to do it.
AI agents are a hundred times better than you at that work. Not slightly better. A hundred times. It doesn’t get bored, doesn’t make copy-paste errors at 4pm on a Friday, doesn’t need onboarding.
Let it have it.
Your job now is to go through your own work — in your specific field — and honestly identify what AI can take over. Then make sure it takes it over well. That part matters. You still need to understand the work well enough to direct it, review it, and catch what it gets wrong. Handing the wheel to something you don’t understand isn’t leverage, it’s abdication.
Once that machine is running, you have something you’ve never had before: your time back.
Use it. Ship faster. Fix the quality that always slipped because there wasn’t enough bandwidth. Do the work that actually required your brain and was always being crowded out by the work that didn’t.
Your old job is being taken. Your new one is waiting.
Are you picking it up — or are you going to spend the next few years mourning a job description that was already overdue for retirement?