What AI has done is encourage every CEO and CTO to look top to bottom through there entire organization for opportunities to automate. There are tons and tons of things that were being done by manual processes because the head honchos didn't think they could be reliably automated.
Remember CEOs and ctOS aren't smart they are lucky and well connected. Nepo babies mostly.
So there is tons of crap out there that's being called AI but is really just run-of-the-mill automation. Remember that stupid shirt about how go away or I'll replace you with a very small Perl script? It's like that.
Finally a recession, big one, is coming. The 7 trillion dollars in tax cuts being rammed through the Senate or going to shake the bond market triggering a pretty large recession and there's no stopping it at this point. It's clear that senators and members of the House fear being unseated in a primary by the billionaires demanding the tax cuts more than they fear losing their seat in the general.
So what's going to happen is your boss is going to fire you or he's going to fire your coworker. Then he's going to replace whoever gets fired with "AI". Meaning some form of generic automation.
If it works then you will get a modest pay cut because of the weak labor market or you'll be unemployed if you're the one that gets picked for layoffs but at least your workload won't increase.
And if the new automation doesn't work, well you're either going to be unemployed while somebody else is working 80 hours a week to make up for a broken AI or you're going to be employed working 80 hours a week making up for that broken ai.
Think of an AI as your useless coworker whose slack you constantly have to pick up. It'll be like that only the lazy coworker gets fired. You're still going to work twice the hours to make up for it or they will fire you and replace you with one of the many many unemployed people in the job market.
And remember good enough is always good enough and your boss is always looking for a way to commoditize your skill set so that you can be easily replaced. They even have a name for it it's called taylorism.
Look at me I'm explaining. And that means I'm losing.