AI Took the Jobs of the People Who Built It, Reddit Post Argues
tradelydev · reddit · 2026-10-25
A popular Reddit post examines the counterintuitive direction of AI's job impact: sci-fi promised robots would take over manual labor while humans stayed creative, but in reality AI first replaced programmers and legal professionals.
The author's theory: the first people to encounter AI were its creators, who (consciously or not) built and trained it to substitute their own work. Legal professionals came next, shaping the tools around liability and commercialization concerns.
The takeaway: your job may not be as AI-proof as you think—your sector may simply not have integrated AI deeply enough yet.
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