Andrew Ng Names the Profession AI Hits Hardest — Openings Are Still Rising
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-09-11
Andrew Ng named the profession AI is hitting hardest, yet job openings there keep rising — because "threatened" is a workflow-level question, not a population-level one.
Key points:
- In Ng's framing, AI eats 30–40% of a role; the busiest engineers stopped fighting for that slice and built the 60–70% the model can't touch.
- The real risk is coding like it's 2022, and no single moment tells you which side of the line you're on.
- Ng criticizes universities: a new course takes committees and a year or two, while the job market shifts every few months.
- The poster illustrates with his own Fortran-to-obsolescence arc and references Brynjolfsson's point about the entry-level rung being cut away.
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