Comment by simianwords
6 days ago
The author talks about jobs requiring a human element but its not always true. A job always requires you to show your task one level higher - to the manager or whoever requires it.
For example UI design can be replaced by AI. Unless UI or UX design people were bringing something like _taste_ instead of simply mechanically operating figma - they are not keeping their jobs.
I genuinely don't need to learn SQL ever in my life. I just don't need it for dashboards or analytics use. A person whose main job was to translate requirements to SQL into a dashboard and nothing else would not keep their job anymore. The person to whom they were providing the analysis to could just perform the analysis themselves using AI.
I do think that most jobs would change dramatically but for sure some of them would be eliminated completely.
The joker here is: what is the purpose now of the manager who's job was to keep 7 employees happy?
SQL is so simple “needing to learn” it is a bit like needing learning to tie your shoes. Not really any challenge worth mentioning.
I disagree.
All of these foundation concepts are vocabulary.
We need vocabulary in order to understand and have reasonable conversations.
Do you need to be an expert? Probably not .. but yes, we should all understand.
I think we'll develop personal moats automatically. Some people don't are naturally uninquisitive. They'll be most at risk.
no they don't need vocabulary, i can vibe code my SQL. for real though, what's the point learning it now for analytics? absolutely none.
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i don't know if this is true or whether people believe this. if you ask other people, they would tell you that sql is a very important skill to learn. i call bs though, like you.
sql is a common interview question, like joining and transformation etc. if its so simple maybe they shouldn't be asking this.
I don't see the contradiction. Something can be both very important and not that difficult to learn and not known by a plurality of interviewees. People ask (and fail) fizz-buzz and that's hardly difficult.