Prompt engineers who tell the AI what to do were seen as the job profile of the future – now they too appear superfluous.
There are still people who see the positive things first. In view of the threat of mass unemployment, die-hard optimists for the future repeatedly use examples from the past to prove how technological progress and increases in productivity always lead to new jobs. The weaver became the assembly line worker, the cab driver became the taxi driver and the stenographer became the office communications specialist. We know the examples from countless McKinsey studies.