Will Most IT Pros have a Job in 10 Years?

Tech Layoffs, Cloud SaaS and AI...oh my!

The Tech Industry has had the Mantra “Growth at all Costs” and they have lived up to the Mantra. When people think of the 2000’s, they will all confess up to the fact that the Internet changed everything. The ways we interact with each other, how we do business and even how we date. While in earlier times it was Engineers that fulfilled our roles before computer went mainstream, we literally evolved into IT Engineers to get computers and servers to do things that normal people didn’t know how to do.

What happens when when the computers can make the other computers do what they want? A Terminator/Skynet type world not withstanding, our jobs would dissipate. Would it force us to become one of the few data center junkies needed to run all those GPU’s cranking out ChatGPT Answers or would we be force to pivot and just go start an AI startup right now to feed our families?

If I’ve learned anything about Technology, especially newly discovered Technologies, is that Technology always gravitates towards getting faster and cheaper without fail. I used to sell Big Screen TV’s back around ‘02 when Plasma TV‘s had just become a thing. A 43 inch Plasma was around $10,000 back then. Yesterday, I saw a 43' LED TV on clearance for $100. AI will get cheaper and faster and better. So you’ve got to get better and faster (not necessarily cheaper though). Knowing skills and growing your knowledge in other areas other than tech will give you the biggest advantage over AI. It’s knowing how to connect the dots to other industries, to solve problem AI has no chance of solving anytime soon. They will be mostly complicated human problems, ones that we have been uniquely trained to solve.