Is AI About to Disrupt White Collar Jobs? 🚀

One of my productivity hacks traps, is not to read or watch everything I would like to in the very moment I come across an interesting piece of content. While this keeps me scrolling for a little longer, it ensures I just spend enough time to feed my to-do list. This is deceptive, because the system effectively emulates the producer-consumer problem in an unbalanced fashion, where I produce much more content to read than the time I actually have to read. But every now and then I discover a gem that’s not to old.

I recently managed to carve out some *free *time1, and came across this thread in X I had kept for my night read. While I do recommend you read the whole thread, the key takeaway I believe is: If you believe something will happen in the short-medium term, you shouldn’t care too much about when exactly it will, and should start acting as if it already happened.

https://x.com/doodlestein/status/1963818340960399654

Fate wanted for this post to be written September 5th, short of two months ago. The truth is however, that the prediction that AI will shatter the current employment market has been around ever since the release of ChatGPT on November 2022.

Although it is too early to judge, in the last 2 months we have seen several events that have all the earmarks of being catalysts for this forecast, and the news keep coming along. The most recent, and impacting announcement involved AWS, who’s expected to cut 30,000 jobs starting today (as of 2025-10-28)

The most interesting part of all these announcements though, is they’re not cutting to automate manual jobs, they’re actually focusing on automating mid level positions. Comfortable white collar positions that have been around for decades.

Footnotes

  1. This is a rare event, since I’m usually wandering about my digital life – most of it – or enthusiastically grounded playing with my dear children. ↩