Will your job be automated?

[Gwylan]

This is a neat site that tells you how safe your job is or whether you'll need a new career in 20 years time. I'm all right - there's only five percent chance of my job going to a robot but it's not good for taxi drivers, accountants and telemarketers

 

[Badger]

Software Developers Applications have a
4.2%
chance of being automated.


I'll just make everyone else's job automated

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Software Developers Applications have a
4.2%
chance of being automated.


I'll just make everyone else's job automated

To be honest, when we get software that can write software, we are in Terminator territory, and we're all DOOMED.

 

[RandyWanger]

0.6% of being automated. Someone's got to program and fix them automated systems when they go wrong ;-)

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I can't find anything in there matches my job, though I'd be surprised if it could be automated as it involves too much in the way of people management. So that's a plus!

Edit; If I'm still doing my job in 20 years I'm going to be very disappointed at myself.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think cloud computing has totally changed the way modern business require staff.

Many larger financial and SMEs would have a huge IT Staff and support industry companies that serviced large and complex hardware infrastructure, but now with the growth of virtual computing, the work can now be done remotely from offshore and run by highly technical teams.

My company has seen this first hand and certainly in the field of IT production services and recovery, the movement to R2C, recovery to cloud, and RAAS, recovery as a service is taking off.

 

[Badger]

To be honest, when we get software that can write software, we are in Terminator territory, and we're all DOOMED.

That's unlikely to happen whilst IDIOTS are still coming up with requirements specs. for all software projects. The same IDIOTS then continuously change their minds about what they want.

 

[happypig]

Doesn't seem to be anything matching the rather odd bit of telecomms I do. Mind you, there's only 12 of us do it in the UK

 

[Gwylan]

I think cloud computing has totally changed the way modern business require staff.

Many larger financial and SMEs would have a huge IT Staff and support industry companies that serviced large and complex hardware infrastructure, but now with the growth of virtual computing, the work can now be done remotely from offshore and run by highly technical teams.
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And there's a huge level of automation taking place: one of the things that drives the take-up of cloud is that automated scripts now replace human intervention (as we're now talking virtual machines instead of physical ones). We'll need developers like Badger for decades to come but the people who provisioned servers and worked handled storage and backup will be a dying breed

 

[Badger]

And there's a huge level of automation taking place: one of the things that drives the take-up of cloud is that automated scripts now replace human intervention (as we're now talking virtual machines instead of physical ones). We'll need developers like Badger for decades to come but the people who provisioned servers and worked handled storage and backup will be a dying breed

You clearly haven't seen any of my coding.

 

[Dave the OAP]

And there's a huge level of automation taking place: one of the things that drives the take-up of cloud is that automated scripts now replace human intervention (as we're now talking virtual machines instead of physical ones). We'll need developers like Badger for decades to come but the people who provisioned servers and worked handled storage and backup will be a dying breed

Totally agree. We use automated scripts, which as a change manager annoys the f out of me as there is no independent scrutiny, apart from the original set up, of when and why changes are made. Especially to our core infrastructure, which turning up cloud VPN/VPLSs obviously affect.

Automation is fine if people understand what to do manually when something invariably goes wrong.

My fear for our industry at the moment, is that we have so much automation that people have lost the ability to troubleshoot as they have never had the need to build a cloud environment manually. It's alright going on courses, but when you are called at 4 in the morning because someone had miscoded a configuration on a firewall that has killed a whole set of VMs, you need that expertise. BUT modern company's do not value experience as we are expensive, rather pushing work offshore where they are regarded as cheap

 

[knocky1]

Only if we buy a dishwasher.

 

[mr sheen]

Closest I could find for me was 0.7%. Mind you, I was hoping for a package and early retirement within those 20 years. Look s like automation won't be my way out!

 

[backson]

To be honest, when we get software that can write software, we are in Terminator territory, and we're all DOOMED.

Until they have to start dealing with end users, that'll teach the ********

 

[beorhthelm]

as i design the automation, not likely.

 

[beorhthelm]

And there's a huge level of automation taking place: one of the things that drives the take-up of cloud is that automated scripts now replace human intervention (as we're now talking virtual machines instead of physical ones). We'll need developers like Badger for decades to come but the people who provisioned servers and worked handled storage and backup will be a dying breed

disagree with that alot (not the bit about Badger). virtual machines storage and backup system still need provisioning, designing, support, maintaining etc. you could leave it all to developers, if you want it all to fall on its face in a years time when the dev has moved on to another project. but i dont see scope for automation beyond physical installation, IT is too dynamic and unpredictable.

 

[BBassic]

Database administrator, 3%

BOOM!

 

[OzMike]

7.1% still low enough not to worry I would have thought.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Medical scientist - 0.5% chance. I actually disagree with this. Automation has moved on loads since I started in 1998.

 

[Curious Orange]

As ever, my line of business is overlooked, and as a software tester I'd say the chances of developing software that is reliable enough to be trusted to automatically automate things within the next 20 years is pretty close to 0%.

Incidentally I actively try to automate as much of my job as I can - if the regression testing is automated that means I can concentrate on the new stuff.