AI가 우리 일자리를 노리고 있다. 우리는 무엇을 할 수 있을까?
프리랜서 마켓플레이스 파이버(Fiverr)의 CEO 미샤 카우프만(Micha Kaufman)이직원들에게 AI가 일자리에 대해 경고한 내용으로 X (구 트위터)에 올려진 것입니다.
🔥 AI가 우리 일자리를 노리고 있다
- AI는 모든 직업을 위협하고 있다. 프로그래머, 디자이너, PM, 변호사, 고객지원, 영업, 재무 등 누구도 예외가 아니다.
- 과거의 ‘쉬운 일’은 사라지고, ‘어려운 일’은 새롭게 쉬운 일이 되며, ‘불가능한 일’은 이제 새로운 난제가 된다.
- 단순히 살아남는 수준이 아니라, 자신의 분야에서 ‘장인’이 되어야 한다. 그렇지 않으면 몇 달 내에 커리어 전환을 고민하게 될 것이다.
🚀 우리는 무엇을 할 수 있을까?
1. AI 도구를 배우고 마스터하라
- 최신 AI 솔루션을 탐색하고 실험하라.
자신에게 ‘초능력’(빠르고 뛰어난 산출물)을 주는 도구를 찾아내라.
- 프로그래머 : Cursor
- 고객지원 : Intercom Fin, SentiSum
- 변호사 : Lexis+ AI, Legora
2. 팀 내 AI 고수와 협업하라
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AI에 정통한 동료들과 교류하며 최신 흐름을 익히라.
3. 시간 개념을 바꿔라
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“2024년처럼” 일하지 말고, 더 빠르고, 더 많이, 더 효율적으로 일해야 한다.
4. 프롬프트 엔지니어가 되어라
- “구글 검색은 끝났다”
- LLM과 생성형 AI(GenAI)는 이제 기본이다.
- 이를 제대로 다루지 못하면 곧 가치를 잃게 된다.
5. AI를 활용해 조직을 효율화하라
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더 많은 사람을 뽑기 전에, 현재 자원으로 더 많은 일을 할 수 있는 방법을 배워야 한다.
6. 회사 전략에 기여하라
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아이디어 회의를 기다리지 말고, 직접 제안하라.
7. 기회를 기다리지 말고 스스로 만들어라
- 배움과 성장은 스스로 만드는 것이다.
- 스스로 도우려는 사람은 내가 도울 것이다.
✅ 준비된 자에게 기회는 온다.
- 현실을 부정하는 사람에게 밝은 미래는 없다.
- 반면, 지금 깨어나서 변화에 준비하는 사람에게는 강력한 미래가 기다리고 있다.
- 대화에 참여하라.
(아래 내용은 X에 올려진 전문입니다. https://x.com/account/access에 있는 내용입니다.)
Micha Kaufman 12:58
to Team
Hey team,
I’ve always believed in radical candor and despise those who sugar-coat reality to avoid stating the unpleasant truth. The very basis for radical candor is care. You care enough about your friends and colleagues to tell them the truth because you want them to be able to understand it, grow, and succeed.
So here is the unpleasant truth: AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call.
It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person — AI is coming for you.
You must understand that what was once considered ‘easy tasks’ will no longer exist; what was considered ‘hard tasks’ will be the new easy, and what was considered ‘impossible tasks’ will be the new hard. If you do not become an exceptional talent at what you do, a master, you will face the need for a career change in a matter of months. I am not trying to scare you. I am not talking about your job at Fiverr. I am talking about your ability to stay in your profession in the industry.
Are we all doomed?
Not all of us, but those who will not wake up and understand the new reality fast, are, unfortunately, doomed.
What can we do?
First of all, take a moment and let this sink in. Drink a glass of water. Scream hard in front of the mirror if it helps you. Now relax. Panic hasn’t solved problems for anyone. Let’s talk about what would help you become an exceptional talent in your field:
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Study, research, and master the latest AI solutions in your field. Try multiple solutions and figure out what gives you superpowers. By superpowers, I mean the ability to generate more outcomes per unit of time with better quality per delivery.
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Programmers: code (Cursor...)
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Customer support: tickets (Intercom Fin, SentiSum...)
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Lawyers: contracts (Lexis+ AI, Legora...), etc.
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Find the most knowledgeable people on our team who can help you become more familiar with the latest and greatest in AI.
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Time is the most valuable asset we have—if you’re working like it’s 2024, you’re doing it wrong! You are expected and needed to do more, faster, and more efficiently now.
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Become a prompt engineer. Google is dead. LLM and GenAI are the new basics, and if you’re not using them as experts, your value will decrease before you know what hit you.
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Get involved in making the organization more efficient using AI tools and technologies. It does not make sense to hire more people before we learn how to do more with what we have.
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Understand the company strategy well and contribute to helping it achieve its goals. Don’t wait to be invited to a meeting where we ask each participant for ideas — there will be no such meeting. Instead, pitch your ideas proactively.
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Stop waiting for the world or your place of work to hand you opportunities to learn and grow — create those opportunities yourself. I vow to help anyone who wants to help themselves.
If you don’t like what I wrote; if you think I’m full of shit, or just an asshole who’s trying to scare you — be my guest and disregard this message. I love all of you and wish you nothing but good things, but I honestly don’t think that a promising professional future awaits you if you disregard reality.
If, on the other hand, you understand deep inside that I’m right and want all of us to be on the winning side of history, join me in a conversation about where we go from here as a company and as individual professionals. We have a magnificent company and a bright future ahead of us. We just need to wake up and understand that it won’t be pretty or easy. It will be hard and demanding, but damn well worth it.
This message is food for thought. I have asked Shelly to free up time on my calendar in the next few weeks so that those of you who wish to sit with me and discuss our future can do so. I look forward to seeing you.
Yours,
Micha
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