Asked for the top three tech jobs that will disappear because of AI, Eric names three and gives the same underlying reason for all of them 2:54.
| # | Role | Why it's exposed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | QA engineers (the manual class) | Their real job is often taking existing software and "clicking buttons around," triaging and validating code 2:54 |
| 2 | Entry-level consulting | Firms assign them to a project that already exists with work already defined — "they just need the manual labor" to do it, which is increasingly easy to hand to a coding agent 3:17 |
| 3 | Entry-level data analysts | Less need for "rudimentary data exploration" of the kind expected from an entry-level analyst 3:17 |
The common criterion
- The exposed work is what Eric calls "not as thoughtful from an engineering standpoint": you take a spec, you take a description of a task, and you just go do it
3:36. - That "entire category of roles may disappear"
3:45. - Implication: the risk is attached to the shape of the task, not the job title. Any role where the spec is already written and execution is mechanical falls in the same bucket.