The future of high-tech workers: don’t be a cog in the machine!
In the tech industry of the near future, professional value migrates from execution to characterizing and solving problems. Basic code writing, software testing and technical support have become an available and cheap commodity produced by a machine. The entire organizational model is changing: instead of a team of ten programmers, we foresee teams of two or three experts, who prevail over a fleet of independent AI agents. The competitive advantage of companies in the future will not be in the amount of their engineers, but in the human ability to extract business value from the machines.
So how should the workers anticipate a cure for the blow? In order not to wait for the surprising dismissal email, the employee must adopt a strategy of optimal adjustment:
In conclusion, the case of Oracle is a wake-up call for all high-tech workers. AI will not replace all workers, but workers who use it will definitely replace those left behind. Those who are wise enough to become the manager of the machine instead of a screw inside it, will discover that technology is not an existential threat, but an unprecedented opportunity to upgrade his career and lead the new era.