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.
If AI can do what you do, why do we need you? That’s a real conversation happening in real boardrooms right now. And it’s terrifying.
I’ve never seen this kind of disruption and fear. At every gathering I go to, the conversation is the same — jobs being affected by AI, layoffs looming.
The bottom line is what matters. Decision makers need to get the numbers to work. Senior leaders are being rewarded for AI adoption. When push comes to shove, some will make the call to let people go.
With all that — what do we do?
Do we just sit shit-scared, waiting for the inevitable like we’re already on death row?
Let’s not dance around it. The job we are doing right now will be taken over by AI. Not might be. Will be.
No matter what we do, some part of it is already being done by AI — and being done much better. Let’s skip denial and jump straight to acceptance.
Our job isn’t being deleted. It’s being recast.
We cannot be married to our old job responsibilities.
The boilerplate work we’ve been grinding through for years. That one tool or skill we mastered and the slow, repetitive work that came with it. The thing we became the go-to person for because nobody else wanted to do it.
AI agents are a hundred times better at that work. Not slightly better. A hundred times. They don’t get bored, don’t make copy-paste errors at 4pm on a Friday, don’t need onboarding.
Let them have it.
Our job now is to identify what AI can take over — and make sure it takes it over well. That part matters. We still need to understand the work well enough to direct it, review it, and catch what it gets wrong. We still own the outcome — AI just does the legwork.
Once that machine is running, we have something we’ve never had before: our time back.
Use it. Ship faster. Fix the quality that always slipped. Do the work that actually required a brain — the work that never had room before.
Your old job is being taken. Your new one is waiting.
Are you picking it up — or mourning a job description that was already overdue for retirement?