This was by far my biggest post in 2016, and I think it’s fascinating that it took about a decade to happen. But here we are.
Our AI Assisted (Near) Future – Sam Harrelson:
In the very near future of compatible API’s and interconnected services, I’ll be able to message this to my AI assistant (saving me hours):
“Amy, my client needs a new website. Get that set up for me on the agency Media Temple’s account as a new WordPress install and set up four email accounts with the following names. Also, go ahead and link the site to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools, and install Yoast to make sure the SEO is ok. I’ll send over some tags and content but pull the pictures you need from their existing account. They like having lots of white space on the site as well.”
That won’t put me out of a job, but it will make what I do even more specialized.
Whole sectors of jobs and service related positions will disappear while new jobs that we can’t think of yet will be created. If we look at the grand scheme of history, we’re just at the very beginning of the “computing revolution” or “internet revolution” and the keyboard / mouse / screen paradigm of interacting with the web and computers themselves are certainly going to change (soon, I hope).