Ian Verrender

Suddenly, those people are being replaced by technology that's

that will do their work for them.

So software engineers and software developers are the ones who are really under threat at the moment.

And I mean, there's some famous instances where really high end, you know, software developers have gone, you know, they started with a chat, put something into Claude and it's done it in a couple of minutes.

And they've said, look, I would have taken me six months to do this.

Well, I think you need to be firstly born rich to rich parents.

Look, it's a really difficult question to answer, I guess, isn't it?

Because, look, you know, I think maybe...

we're going to have a lot of social problems as a result of this.

So maybe if you've got some kind of skills in how to deal with people and the problems that people have, you know, psychology, psychiatry, medicine is always going to be something that we all need.

But, you know, when you come to

Anything that requires you sitting in front of a computer and working on is probably going to be overtaken by artificial intelligence.

I mean, you know, will we be sitting here in 10 years' time talking about these kind of things or will two chatbots be sitting here debating it?

You know, I mean, journalism is one of the things that can easily be...

well, particularly just straight up news journalism can be generated from a computer.

Yeah, and I mean, Atlassian is a great example of it.

They are, I think, trying desperately now to embrace artificial intelligence in their own right.

And as you say, you're going to sit above this great artificial intelligence machine, so you'll have a handful of people sitting there doing the work.

But this begs the question, what do all the people who are laid off as a result of this, what do they do?

Where do they end up?