OR IS IT TOO LATE? –
May 6, 2025 – What are we going to do about it. When I ask people this question, the most common response is a blank stare or a shrug. Oh, tech people understand what’s coming — in fact, they understand it’s already here, displacing early career programmers.
CEOs are studying how artificial intelligence might help reduce expensive head counts. Professors are aware that students are using it to cheat. Journalists have a natural wariness of any entity that produces faster, cleaner copy than they can.
Outside of those professions, I keep being surprised by the number of successful people who tell me they think AI won’t matter for their industry. Usually, they played around with it a while ago and weren’t particularly impressed, so they stopped using it and don’t know how much it has improved. This leads them to assume it won’t be a threat — at least not on any time frame that will affect them personally.
