Do not tell me that AI is a hype when you can see the impacts already in the market: “The tech industry’s ongoing embrace of artificial intelligence has triggered another wave of sweeping job cuts in 2025, with IBM, Business Insider, and LinkedIn eliminating a combined total of more than 8,500 jobs — a signal that automation is not just reshaping the workplace but rapidly replacing human labor altogether.”
Good People, you must have a career plan, and become a believer that AI will cause severe paralysis in the workplace. Let me share an experience. When I started in banking in Lagos, I was very good at coupling and assembling computers, and doing networking. But the very day I saw non graduates (all respect to Computer Village boys) do all that “geeky” stuff was the day I told myself that this “IT” thing may not be a durable career path. Largely, I felt over time, the ability to compound experience and earn more would diminish.
Quickly, I decided to return back to electrical and electronics engineering since that one cannot be disintermediated easily. Fortunately, it worked really well as I have not seen anyone who can design microprocessors, and wire transistors, without a deep understanding of device physics, calculus, and things no human on the street can hack without going to college! That knowledge system is the moat to protect good wages as the party has a high entry barrier.
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But today, for the software engineers, it is not the guy on the street that is coming after the job, but AI, and that makes it more intriguing. My message is clear: plan that the AI you are creating today will make you redundant in months!
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Do we need all the AI products we are bombarded with weekly? If we need them, for what exactly – fun or work? If it’s work, the same work being taken away? We keep drawing circles. Once you understand that you are just part of a giant simulation, you either decide to take over your life or keep cooperating.
You will keep preparing and preparing, and each week you will be told that you could be irrelevant soon, but keep preparing. Don’t we think few people are determined to control the rest of humans, all in the name of AI and efficiency? And we are egging them on, probably because you will be immune to the future chaos.
If mastering AI will keep all of us at our duty posts, then nothing has changed. But you know that’s not the goal, so what is it? Figure it out…