When the Titanic was sinking, the band kept playing, in an eerie mix of oblivion and resignation.
Our world is that Titanic now, and we are its musicians. We keep going, day after day, ignoring the rapid and inevitable sinking of a human era.
If this sounds too gloomy, that’s on you. It’s not gloomy — it’s real. Our world has hit the AI iceberg, and whether we like it or not, whether we think the future is dark or bright, we’re sinking. It’s neither good nor bad. It simply is.
Your Job Is Already Lost — You Just Don’t Realize It
The way we do things has already changed. From coding to content production, everything now has some AI woven into its fabric. Tiny bits and pieces are already offloaded to “something else” — something cheaper and better.
In some verticals, like software production, it’s no longer just bits and pieces, but entire chunks of operations orchestrated by a single person. Teams of ten have become the job of one.
One-year predictions are foggier than ever; no one really knows how things will be. We can only look back at the last year and stare at it in disbelief.
What’s Really Lost
When I said your job is already lost, I didn’t mean your company is firing you and someone else will take your place — yes, you may think this is how things are happening, but it’s far more than that.
Behind the thin veil of our familiar understanding of reality, there’s a more profound shift: a world in which a job is something that unequivocally defines us is disappearing.
The entire concept of “job” is becoming obsolete.
It’s hard to wrap our heads around this, because this is how we grew up — it’s how we made sense of the world. But really, who said we need jobs the way they are now? Who made the rules that for eight hours a day, from 9 to 5, we must lend our bodies, our thought processes, and our skills to someone else in exchange for sustenance? Why does it have to be this way?
What if there’s a better way?
The prospect of not having a job suddenly feels less frightening now, doesn’t it?
You Cannot See Something You Haven’t Seen Before
Our ability to understand the future is fundamentally based on our past experiences. If we encounter something we’ve never seen before, it simply doesn’t exist for us. We have no reference points, no framework — so it slips through our minds.
We cannot see what will replace the “job”; we’re not equipped for it.
But history has taught us, time and again, that every disruption — whether biological (from Neanderthal to Sapiens) or social (from hunter-gatherers to agriculture) — has ultimately enabled something better.
We just weren’t prepared for that kind of “better,” clinging instead to our old, familiar ways.
AI won’t take your job — because it already took it. And in the process, it made room for something far better than a job.