I don't know about "most other jobs", I feel like this applies strongly to software too. AI is being used to automate the fun stuff
You may view writing code as drudgery, I like doing it
I loved solving problems with code but I don’t think it’s controversial to say most people enjoy the novel problems much much more than pulling apart an obtusely designed, non-idiomatic API. The AI is better at the details than the novel problem, so whoever is driving still needs to sort that out. In art, writing, and so-on, it only does the interesting part, but it does it poorly. So for professional use cases, it involves a lot of tedious cleanup of other people’s art that a machine (very economically) amalgamated into a pile of shit, and you’ve no opportunity to do anything interesting. At all.
Yeah probably not for the same reason I left VFX rather than have a lifetime of completely disregarding my own generative creativity and cleaning up LLM-generated bullshit. Fuck that. Double-fuck creating ‘content’ to train the models.
In code, LLMs automate away a lot of the drudgery. In most other jobs, they automate away the only fun part and leave humans with all of the drudgery.
The tech industry has always been arrogant to some extent, but assuming the world of talented professional knowledge workers and creatives would be content to professionally proofread, apply lipstick to pigs, and polish turds is a whole new level of out-of-touch. I’d rather live out of my car and dig through the garbage for bottles with deposits.