Veteran recalls the 2012 cloud transition: datacenter staff facing AI-era job fears today
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-16
Industry veteran chrismunns responds to today's AI-driven career anxiety: he won't downplay the fears, but recalls 2012, when datacenter IT staff — SAN/networking/VM experts since the 90s, many in their late 40s or 50s — asked him what role they had left as cloud arrived. His blunt answer then: adapt and learn on top of your existing skills; the old job was gone. He offers it as the only real answer for today's AI transition too.
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