Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?

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• trio8453 8分钟前
  > These fundamentals cannot be found through AI.

  This isn't true, AI is already great at this. And in general it has the potential to impact any knowledge work.

  > What should I look into as alternatives , even if it's less lucrative software compensation, so that I find AI can't over power me?

  Work as a nurse, EMT, cleaner.

  > I feel robbed of my intellectual freedom to express and be accepted by others as others depend on AI for everything.

  You have just as much freedom as before. If you went back in time 10 years and had some intellectual skill, there would almost certainly be nothing remarkable about it, the world would be full of thousands and thousands of people who can do the same thing and many of them much much better than you ever could. Now there's some app that can do the same thing, that's the only difference. The thing that you think you've lost or have been robbed of - you never had it to begin with.
• dima-quant 5小时前
  AI is very good at standard and well defined problems but much less so with complex and vague. For example, currently available models cannot write or even port a full-feature compiler of a mature language without very custom tweaking and direct supervision. Even with multiple agents, it still remains just a tool, though quite powerful. As you already know physics and programming, data science can be a natural alternative that requires both skills. From my experience, many problems there are vague and most of the job is to actually make a proper representative dataset and translate vague requirements to something well defined. AI helps with the actual implementation, the other part remains mostly human.
• swapnsri 11小时前
  There is no place to hide from AI, whenever big giants discover the untouched area they will start working on it, so either join startup and get job security for at least 2-3 years depending on your dependency over a project or be an entrepreneur yourself. I would recommend instead of escaping try embracing and do some extra work apart from you regular chores and present that also to the management i have built this or that using AI. We cannot party on weekends anymore it is a technological shift we must keep the momentum for at least 2 years from now to be in the game otherwise the layoffs are on their way. The more you fear, the more you lose. The more you practice, the more you gain
• imhoguy 1小时前
  20exp SWE here, I've doubled down effort and focus on my communication and people skills. First helps with prompts, but both make a difference when I pickup a phone and my side-project client is delighted they are not talking with a bot and their problems can be addressed by myself. AI is just another tool in my toolset to help people.
• iExploder 10小时前
  In my humble human opinion everything digital has been or shortly will be conquered by AI.

  You can either embrace it, learn to how to use and deploy AI or try to find a way out into the real world, until robotics will inevitably catch you in several years, for some professions with manual aspect you could have maybe decades of time.
• manfromchina1 14小时前
  Kernel Hacking. Human judgement here is still required and irreplaceable. For fast employment - Non Destructive Testing.

  Keep studying physics, though. Go up to modern Solid State physics for a possibility of entering industries that revolve around chip production.