You're Fired
This is a heads-up.
This is a fact. Not a matter of “if”, but when. You can decide to ignore it, deny it as much as you want, but soon this will be your new reality. The key point here is to be prepared. If you are one deciding not to ignore or fall into bubble claims, then you should be technically fine. Like the movie “Don’t Look Up”
White-collar jobs, creative jobs, gone, or soon to be gone. Arguably, bottom-line positions are now being replaced by Ai. In every sector, from legal, finance, to customer support, marketing, medical you name it.
And I know this sounds dramatic You might be thinking “here we go, another Ai doom article” but hear me out, because this one is different.
I’m not writing this to scare anyone. I’m writing this because I care, and because I believe preparation will give many a competitive advantage.
The Window Is Still Open. But It’s Closing Fast. There’s no time like today
Right now the barrier to entry is high. Claude Code is incredible, but 99.99% of the population has never heard of it. Same as the now “popular” OpenClaw/Clawdbot. At best 10% of those who know about it actually try to install it. And less than that get anything meaningful from it. So the gap, the opportunity, is right here. Right now. But the window is closing fast.
Think of it this way. In 2007 when the iPhone came out, the people who immediately jumped on app development made bank.
The people said “that’s a toy, it’ll never replace my BlackBerry” (lol). Those phones are not around anymore.
I remember the moment I saw the iPhone nothing else mattered.
Same thing is happening right now with Ai. The ones who are learning, experimenting, breaking things, “talking to the machine”, those are the ones who will be technically fine.
Not because they will not lose their jobs, they will. I will at some point be replaced by a super sentient CFO superstar (not yet though).
The ones scrolling past this article thinking “not my problem” are the ones I’m actually worried about. Or that they willingly put their heads into the sand. As it might have big unintended social repercussions.
The tools are here. They’re powerful. And most people don’t even know they exist. And I’m not even talking about engineering or coding.
It will come, fast, from one week to the next.
“It’s Not Ai That Will Take Your Job, it’s the person using Ai” I disagree
Here’s the thing that most people get wrong. It’s not the Ai companies or the next models that will leave you out of a job. Will be someone trying to solve someone else’s problem, creating an Ai tool that will swipe an entire role from the face of the earth from one day to the next.
OpenClaw released a few weeks ago, and it’s already cloning tasks that at least PAs used to do, by just taking control of a computer. We’ve seen examples and use cases in customer service, support, sales (powered with voice) administration, and so on.
The result? better Ai tools are breakthroughs, and as the indirect consequence of any breakthrough, things run more effectively (aka displacement+layoffs).
As someone that is heads (feet and toes)-on in Ai, trying everything daily literally, I can not only see the impact of acceleration, I can feel it. Every week the tools get better. I can’t keep up.
Every month the gap between what Ai can do and what most people do at work gets smaller. As more of us try and experiment. And the scary part is not the technology itself.
It’s how fast it’s moving while most people are standing still, looking at their phones, waiting to be woken up by Keanu Reeves as an angel.
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, said that “Ai could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% within the next one to five years”.
This is coming from the company behind Claude, who just raised $30 billion in Series G at a $380 billion post-money valuation 🤯🤯🤯 (that number feels a bit pornographic at this point if you ask me),
What if he is wrong. And it’s worse
This is not some random blogger, this is the CEO of one of the most advanced Ai companies on the planet. And he’s basically telling you, point blank, that this is coming by his own doing.
It’s like the guy making the bomb telling you it’s gonna drop it over your house next June. We should probably listen.
Ai will “replace literally half of all white-collar workers.” It’s already happening, slowly and accelerating. Marc Benioff from Salesforce? He’s already done it, cutting 4,000 customer service roles because Ai handles 50% of their interactions now. Microsoft cut 15,000 jobs. Amazon eliminated 14,000 corporate roles a few weeks ago.
These are not predictions anymore folks. These are early calls.
I’m a lawyer, I’m an auditor, an analyst, CFO - Legal & Finance, we are next.
Let’s start with the one everybody thinks is untouchable. Law, Finance, Operations.
Some random Oxford study gave paralegals and legal assistants a 94% probability of being “computerized”. Ninety freaking four percent. Ai tools are already reviewing thousands of documents in hours, something that used to take teams of paralegals weeks.
I use it every time, have 3 agents running to check a document, other to edit, and one to check/proofread it following my commands, given via voice on the phone.
Legal research? Ai scans entire databases of case law, statutes, and precedents faster than any team could dream of. I can bet more than 50% of the contracts you’ve signed in the past year are 100% Ai.
Lawyers are important to spot the legality and nuances of those documents, to capture what a machine can. This is a super relevant part of their job, if not the most crucial. Can’t be automated, it’s human.
Same for finance. But down there, on the day to day it’s not the same.
I think it was someone at Goldman Sachs that said that generative Ai could replace up to 44% of the legal profession. And it’s not just paralegals. Junior associates at big law firms, the ones doing the grunt work of document review, due diligence, basic drafting, that’s all subject to Ai agentic automation now.
The entire business model of “hire cheap juniors, bill them at $300 an hour, and have them do repetitive work” will collapse. Same for auditors, junior accountants, etc.
This is to me concerning because Ai will eliminate those jobs you need to do early on to get the experience you need for bigger jobs. It’s cutting the bridge we all crossed in our careers at some point. The entry level roles will be gone.
In finance it’s the same story. I don’t know how much of this is true but I’ve heard that JPM managers have been told to avoid hiring people, while the firm deploys Ai across its businesses.
Goldman CEO David Solomon is “taking a front-to-back view” of how to organize people, with Ai at the center. Loan processing automation is expected to go from 35% today to 80% by 2030.
And around 200,000 jobs on Wall Street are expected to be cut in the next 3 to 5 yrs according to that article as well. And this is just the US, EU policy is more fragmented on this.
Marketing and Customer Support! Yes please! where it gets real, really fast.
Not that it’s a great example of a company. But Salesforce went from 9,000 customer support employees to 5,000. In months. Not years, months. CEO Marc Benioff said it on a podcast like he was talking about the weather. “I need less heads.”
Brutal, yes, but so many high up are thinking the same but waiting for others to break the stigma.
Elon bought X with an insane amount of employees, now it’s running with a fraction of the workforce and being super open on how he plans to use xAi and Grok to further that.
Klarna is even more “interesting”. They went full Ai, I think they replaced the work of 700 customer service employees, bragged about saving $10 million on marketing by outsourcing translation, art production, and data analysis to generative Ai.
And then? They had to re-hire humans back. In an interview they admitted “we went too far.” Customer satisfaction dropped, quality tanked. Because it turns out people still want to talk to people at some point, especially when something goes wrong with their money.
But here’s what nobody is talking about. Klarna’s failure wasn’t a failure of Ai. It was a failure of implementation, a bit careless if you ask me. Especially because the technology is not right there yet.
The next company that does it right won’t need to hire anyone back. And that company might already exist.
In marketing, the data I see is brutal. Old story but BlueFocus, a major agency, terminated its entire human content creation workforce in 2024. Not downsized, terminated. Fully and indefinitely.
Marketing agencies are using Ai at their core, and it’s accelerating their offer, speed and cost. This is the same for the internal departments.
Take me for example. I’m focusing my antennas to learn how to create a content machine with Ai for who knows how many things I’ve created at this point. My focus on “creating” made me neglect the “selling” aspect of it. So now I’m turning to Ai to create a machine of organic content, TikTok and Meta ads.
Some Big Four today say they’ve cut graduate recruitment by 29-33% because Ai automates junior tasks. I used to work for a “Big Four”, there I had to build one of the service lines from the ground up. If I were to do the same today, I’ll do most of the heavy lifting with Ai.
The bottom rungs of the career ladder? They’re being removed. And nobody is building new ones fast enough.
Medicine, my favourite topic. This is where I hope for more advancement
In healthcare, some say medical transcription is already 99% automated with little human intervention. A job that millions of people trained for, studied for, built entire careers around, is now done by a machine with 99% automation.
Radiology, one of the highest-paid specialties in medicine, is seeing Ai that can read scans faster and, in many cases, more accurately than human radiologists. Same for early detection tools skin and hopefully cancer.
More and more Ai is entering the field head-on. Ai has capabilities that no amount of human experience could develop in a lifetime. It can analyze patterns across millions of cases in seconds, not just a few years of human experience and maybe a couple of thousand cases.
We’re not talking about replacing doctors, not yet. But soon.
The support staff, the administrative backbone of healthcare, that’s already being replaced.
Ai can help revolutionise not only preventive care, but help us build solutions faster. We already saw what this looks like with Google DeepMind and AlphaFold. This is an Ai system that “can predict the 3D structure of proteins directly from their amino acid sequence” I won’t pretend that I get what that means, but I know this used to take who knows how much lab work time, trial and error, and error, and error. Plus enormous amount of capital.
Today, its predictions cover millions of proteins and are being used worldwide to accelerate drug discovery and disease research.
That is not incremental improvement. That’s a leap.
Arts and Creation. You know, those things we thought were ours.
This one hurts the most because it hits closest to home. I’m someone who creates, who writes, who builds things, and also as someone who lives together with a creative partner, curious mind, an artist, an author, illustrator, architect and designer.
Ai is far from perfect. But now, GenAi can not only make Will Smith eat spaghetti, but it will make you believe he actually does. Only in a few years, we went from A to B.
Ai can generate images that would take a designer hours in seconds. It can write marketing copy, blog posts, social media content. I’m not arguing the quality of the content, but how it’s made.
It can compose music, design logos and create videos. Seedance 2.0 was released a few days ago and what this monster can do is terrible. You don’t like the ending of Stranger Things, you’ll be soon able to change it. I will rewrite the Lost finale to be just Jack’s Ayahuasca dream in Peru.
And yes, before you say “but it doesn’t have soul” or “real art requires human emotion,” you’re 100% right. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most creative work in the commercial world isn’t about soul. It’s about output speed, consistency, and cost.
This is already a problem, I talk to artists weekly, a lot in our circle, and the impact of Ai can be seen, and felt all over. There’s less work all around. Big companies are still using creatives for most, big editorials and publishing houses as well. But for how long.
The creators who will survive and thrive are the ones who use Ai as a tool to amplify their creative vision, not the ones who pretend it doesn’t exist. The ones who can direct Ai, curate its output, add the human layer of taste, emotions and judgment, those are the ones who will be in a way, “ok.”
So What Do You Do? What’s the plan?How to be prepared and comfortable.
Some data shows that in 2025 alone, nearly 55,000 job cuts were directly attributed to Ai, out of over 1 million total layoffs, the highest since the pandemic. And to me we’re just getting started.
But here’s the thing. Every major technological shift in history has had this effect.
The printing press killed the scribes but created an entire publishing industry. The internet killed travel agencies but created the entire digital economy. Ai will kill a lot of jobs. But it will also create opportunities that we can’t even imagine yet.
The difference between the ones who stay ahead and the ones who don’t? Preparation
Ai will create new tools, new ways to approach issues and solve them. My prediction is that people will be displaced into two major buckets. Entrepreneurship and entertainment (or a hybrid).
Start working on your craft, your side-hustle, your idea. That thing you had in the back of your head, you never made a reality. Self-starters and entrepreneurs will have the advantage, especially if starting early. Today there’s basically nothing that can’t be done either with Ai or with every tool we have at our disposal. From an Etsy shop, to a complex mobile application to match parrots.
If that does not work, entertainment is the other big thing. The attention economy will be bigger than it is today. Is not late to start a podcast, a TikTok, Instagram even a Facebook page to share who you are, what you know, what you love, etc. New opportunities arise every day. It’s not late, it requires consistency. Start today and in two to five years even less it will be your source of income.
Just show up every day with your unique whatever it is.
Start using Ai tools, all of them even if they don’t apply to you. You think VibeCoding does not apply to you, your sister, father, brother or mother. You are wrong.
If you were to lose weight, you should start today, not on Monday, you don’t wait for planetary alignments. Today. Not tomorrow, not next week, today.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, Clawdbot, whatever tool makes sense for your work. Get your hands into the dirt. Break things, stop Netflix binge-watching. Build stuff, break stuff. Learn what these tools can and cannot do.
Because the person who will take your job is not a robot or Ai.
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