'If you fear AI taking your job, you've never had a job where the task was figuring out what needs doing'
rachittshah · x · 2026-10-23
A widely shared quip argues that if you're afraid of AI taking your job, you've clearly never had a job whose description was "figure out what needs doing and do it" — implying that self-directed problem definition, not task execution, is the skill AI struggles to replace.
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