Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

NAFTA was the catalyst which jump started the USA morphing towards more and more lower paying service jobs. AI will increasingly accelerate that as it reduces more high end jobs. Not so much for a year or two but make no mistake that train has left the station and is accelerating.

It is not hard to imagine a college education being MUCH less worthwhile 20 years from now. Look at the EDU department at SAS for a good example. It's present form is decimated compared to less than 10 years ago and it will never flourish as it did in the past.

If you do not believe me, take a road trip that avoids interstates and greatly avoids metro areas. That will give you a good look at how small town America has been decimated. The view of small town America today is a more decayed view that it was just before Covid.

Middle class America is headed towards extinction. AI will aid that.

Although AI has decimated the Art field, the Art Department remains safe.

Some of the code it generates can be good, other bits of code are just plain wrong… But at least for now we aren't there yet IMO.

You must have faith and believe. Do not listen to your own negative thoughts for they will lead you astray. Embrace the message and the good.

I think the biggest threat to SAS employees is not AI taking their jobs, but rather customers using AI to make SAS to Open Source conversions much faster.

"Copilot, convert this bit of SAS code to Python and Spark..."

I used to work at SAS, and now work for a non-Meta FAANG-level company. We are claiming that XX% of our code is now written by AI. Among developers we all consider that a joke. Some of the code it generates can be good, other bits of code are just plain wrong or need significant refactoring (taking more time than just writing it by hand honestly).

Could AI one day take our jobs? Or make us 100% more efficient to where we need 50% of the staff? Sure. But at least for now we aren't there yet IMO.