Ask HN: If AI took your job tomorrow, what is your plan?

I'm looking for some optimism here after reading one of the recent daily threads that devolves into doom. I'm 26, single, at a non-FAANG making okay money doing software, but I can feel the AI grip tightening. Maybe it's an illusion, not sure, but it sure feels real.

Does anyone here have a creative plan for other industries to get into? Ways to reduce expenses? Trying to find something people with brains like ours can look forward to.

3 points | by rogerrogerr 4 hours ago

4 comments

meristohm 2 hours ago
Think forward to what you will care about when you're dying, if you have the luxury of such consideration.
As I get older, what matters more and more are the relationships I have with other people and other beings in general.
I also value the story of "private sufficiency, public luxury", and I mostly move myself around the planet under my own power these days (good way to not pay for exercise / work-out space). I'm ready to never use a computer again, and to work with other humans to tend land in the old ways. I accept that I'll die, and I do my best to be kind and compassionate to others, ready to retaliate if attacked, with default being a cooperative state, because that's a story I like being part of.
jakedrift 3 hours ago
I would open a small food stall, park it near a busy street. The money you'll get from it would be enough to survive and put something in savings too. And if you get famous for your food there, you can try to open a permanent shop.
But yeah small food stall or food van is the way to go. (My opinion)
xvxvx 3 hours ago
Sell my home. Withdraw my 401k. Buy a small home outright, somewhere away from the bullshit and find a non-tech job knowing that I don’t need much money to survive. A sort of semi-early retirement.
andsoitis 3 hours ago
... deal with it then, if it even happens.
In the meantime, embrace it in creative ways.
Have fun coding, build relationships, don't overthink it.