I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world

Re:I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over ... by anonAndOn on Friday May 08, 2020 @07:23PM (#23120621)

FWIW, automation is certainly eating jobs in the back office. I push a button and my pivot table gets updated in a few seconds whereas that used to take somebody a couple hours to assemble. Why do I need a second staff accountant, again?

I think it's inevitable that the "junior" office jobs (where many get their start) will be/are replaced by scripts & API's.

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Re:I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over ... by clairity on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:15AM (#23125341)

that's just productivity enhancement. in most cases, junior positions aren't disappearing, but rather being redefined to do things that were previously too difficult or time-consuming, so were skipped.

like fraud detection. before, you just accepted a 3% fraud rate as a cost of doing business and left it at that. now you get that down to 0.5% because the tools let you do it in the same amount of time, and the owners want that sweet, sweet cash. you still want a second accountant to double-check the first, so you expand the work to fulfill that need. it can still be worth it, even so.

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