https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-death-of-the-junior-developer
https://www.cio.com/article/2094693/will-ai-kill-jobs-history-says-otherwise.html
https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-03-14-how-to-tell-if-ai-threatens-your-job/
If your primary value to your employer is derived from a work product that includes all of these ingredients, your job is probably safe:
Novel
The subject matter is new or otherwise not well represented in the data that the AI was trained on
Unpredictable
It would be hard to predict the solution’s format and structure based solely on a description of the problem
Fragile
Minor errors and inaccuracies would dramatically reduce the work’s value without time-intensive remediation from an expert
To illustrate, each of the following professions have survived previous revolutions in information technology, but will find themselves under tremendous pressure from generative AI:
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A lawyer that drafts, edits, and red-lines contracts for their clients will be at risk because most legal agreements fall into one of a few dozen categories. For all but the most unusual contracts, any large corpus of training data will include countless examples of similar-enough agreements that a generated contract could incorporate those distinctions while retaining a high degree of confidence
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A travel agent that plans vacations by synthesizing a carefully-curated repertoire of little-known points of interest and their customers’ interests will be at risk because travel itineraries conform to a rigidly-consistent structure. With training, a stochastic AI could predictably fill in the blanks of a traveler’s agenda with “hidden” gems while avoiding recommending the same places to everyone
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An insurance broker responsible for translating known risks and potential liabilities into a prescribed set of coverages will themselves be at risk because most policy mistakes are relatively inconsequential. Insurance covers low-probability events that may not take place for years - if they occur at all - so there’s plenty of room for error for human and AI brokers alike (and plenty of boilerplate legalese to protect them)