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Cycling industry needs 45,000 mechanics right now, and it's an AI-proof job (www.cyclingweekly.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [M] to c/micromobility@lemmy.world
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[+] -45 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

Nothing is ai proof even skilled trades.

Use ai to come up with a cheap drive train that won't wear out, or a chain lubricant that increases the life span of chains and gears 10 fold. Or Bike tires that last longer.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Siri, make me a bike better than has ever been made before

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Hey siri if I turn up the wattage of a laser cutter or use a plasma on a lower amperage but slower feed, would a significant HAZ develop on a cut sprocket to harden the teeth and increase service life with out the need for further heat treatment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Claude told me to short circuit a lithium ion battery, so yeah but nah.

    Also, if you have access to that equipment, why don't you try that solution out and share the results with the class? AI can't bypass original research. It's not a fortune teller.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    i agree that nothing will be unchanged by ai and that nothing is fully ai proof, but your examples are very bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    There's "fully LLM proof near-term" and "fully AI proof". There's no way you can know there won't be a model that can do precise drawings in a few years. Even with LLMs, something to consider is that drawings can be expressed as code and that just gives you a python script with changeable parameters to generate the drawings.

    For the wood on a table saw - are you sure it'll stay that way forever? We already have CNC machines, so obviously precise computerised control of machines is possible.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    The important point when talking about AI and jobs isn't the susceptibility of specific jobs to AI, it's that all you have to do is have a sustained period of time where the rate of job elimination exceeds the rate of job creation. That's all it takes to destroy the fundamental functioning of any economy. If that happens, people won't have any money to pay all the plumbers, mechanics, etc. who still have jobs.

    When that will happen, within a decade or within a human lifetime, is a matter of open debate, but it is almost inevitable that it will happen someday.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Have you ever wonder why those initially cheap chinese product suddenly hike in price when they started to went into more high end stuff? Because they realise high end stuff requires high end production line and better material, and those aren't cheap.

    Also capitalism, it's gonna cost a huge lot.

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