It's not surprising that software development is one of the first jobs that AI has really transformed. It's text-based, economically valuable, and generally of interest to the kinds of people inventing and training the AI. There's also a large amount of training examples available online.
The job in most cases is now: You are a manager of robots who do things that used to be your job. You're responsible for what they produce and so the skill and art is in guiding and reviewing their work.
It seems likely that one by one most jobs will turn into the above description, over the next year or three. Of course the domain will vary, so your knowledge and expertise used for instructing and verifying what the robots do will be what matters. This means there will still be a big difference between the jobs of e.g. an architect, surgeon, or builder. Probably the same basic kinds of robots in most cases, but requiring very different kinds of oversight.
If that's the case then everyone needs to learn the job of robot management, well and quickly. I don't know how we do that, but I think that's what we need to accomplish as a society.
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