New Engineer on AI Disruption: Jobs Aren't Vanishing, Aim Higher
altryne · x · 2026-09-23
A practitioner shares a newly hired engineer's insight: "AI has been replacing my work ever since I got my CS degree, yet I'm busier than ever—we can afford to be more ambitious." This echoes Jensen Huang's view that AI raises the ceiling on individual ambition; what's being replaced isn't the job itself but old boundaries of work. The poster, after joking about staying up until 4 a.m. multiple times this week to keep up, added that real practitioners' ambitions run far higher still.
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