Which job do you think gets automated first in your own industry

[Forge89]

Given how fast AI capability keeps moving, I'm curious what people actually think happens first within their own specific industry, not the abstract national jobs debate everyone argues about online, but the concrete task or role in your own workplace that you personally expect to get automated away soonest

In my own field the obvious early target is anything involving repetitive first draft work, initial research summaries, routine data entry, first pass code review comments, the kind of task that's genuinely valuable but doesn't require deep judgment calls or accountability for the final outcome

What I think a lot of people get wrong in this conversation is assuming entire jobs disappear cleanly all at once, in practice it looks more like specific tasks within a role quietly get automated first while the job title itself survives for years afterward with a smaller and more specialized scope than it used to have

The roles that feel safest to me for now are the ones requiring real accountability for a final decision, someone still has to be legally or professionally responsible when something goes wrong, and companies seem hesitant to hand that specific kind of ultimate responsibility to a system even when the system's actual output is arguably already good enough on a technical level

Curious how this actually plays out differently across industries people work in here, seems like some fields are already seeing real concrete task level automation happening right now while others are still mostly talking about it as a distant future possibility rather than something currently reshaping day to day work

[DigitalNomad]

First draft everything is exactly what's already happened in my field, nobody starts from a blank page anymore, the actual skill that matters now is editing and judgment rather than pure initial generation from scratch

[Shane]

The task level rather than job level automation point is spot on, my actual job title hasn't changed at all in three years but what I spend my actual time doing day to day has shifted enormously toward review and oversight work instead

[Callum28]

Accountability is the real moat right now more than raw technical capability, someone has to be the named person who signs off and takes responsibility when something eventually goes wrong, and that's a much harder thing to actually automate away than pure task execution

[Terminator]

My industry feels behind on this compared to what I read about happening elsewhere, still mostly hypothetical conversations in meetings rather than any actual concrete task automation happening yet in daily practice

[Drifter]

Curious how much of this ends up being genuine capability limitation versus organizational and legal reluctance to actually deploy automation even where the underlying technology is already good enough to handle the task competently

[NeverQuitZach33]

The scope shrinking slowly over years rather than a job disappearing overnight matches exactly what I've personally seen happen, my role today looks meaningfully different from what it was three years ago even though the job title on my badge never changed once

[Bayley_US]

Watching this play out in customer support specifically, tier one basic questions are almost entirely automated now, but anything requiring real empathy or genuine judgment calls on an exception case still needs an actual human involved