Five years might not sound like much, but in the world of technology, it’s long enough for the impossible to become everyday routine. Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how we work, hire, and even think about what “a job” means. From automating repetitive tasks to helping us make better decisions, AI isn’t a distant promise anymore—it's here, quietly rewiring the foundations of nearly every industry.

And here’s the twist: the paragraph you just read wasn’t written by a human at all. It was generated by an AI, in seconds. If you didn’t notice until now, that’s precisely the point—the line between human insight and artificial assistance is fading fast. Over the next five years, that line will blur not just in writing, but across creative, technical, and strategic roles. The real question isn’t whether AI will change our jobs, but how well we’ll adapt to working with it. And maybe… what's left for us?

I'm scared. I'm scared because what I'm building today with AI will replace me tomorrow. The power and evolution of AI tools these last two years is really tremendous. It's as fantastic as it is scary. On the one hand, it allows us to work better, with fewer errors, faster, with no repetitive tasks, etc. But on the other hand, if it's too good at it, what will we do?

I don't know what to think about this. Should we stop the machine? Should we burn all those servers and never look back before it's too late? But how do we define “too late”? So many questions without real answers for now. I guess this is what revolution is. I witnessed the new robot from 1X tech, NEO, with fear. I, Robot isn't too long from now, is it? I could talk about this robot for a long time, but it's not the subject here. Or is it?

AI is already replacing jobs in “writing things”, mainly because that's what AI can do today: write things better, faster and cheaper than us. But what if you give it hands and legs tomorrow? It will mow your lawn, walk your dog, and clean your house nice and tidy. But one more day and it will build your house. And the house will be perfect, cost 1/4 of what it costs with a human doing it, and be done in the blink of an eye.

Yet there's another revolution between these robots and now (or maybe two): the intellectual jobs. Today the AI is mainly replacing an underqualified or poorly qualified workforce. It can answer the telephone, write emails, and so on by itself. Although it cannot take a website code, write the next feature, test it, and push it live on the web by itself. Well, not today. But it may come faster than you think (just see this damn robot).

I'm not mad at it (or just a little), but as a human, I'm afraid of being replaced by a robot doing my job better, faster, and cheaper than me. I think I'm part of the “first” next revolution: the low-intellectual jobs. Nobody would choose to pay an expensive, slow, and error-prone human rather than AI. This would be a terrible business error. So what will be left for developers, community managers (that's not a real job, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), graphists, designers...? I think for a time, we'll still be there. I mean, one of us will be there working like they're five. And some jobs will just disappear. It's difficult to pay a graphist for a logo when they spent days doing it while AI is doing almost the same literally for free in seconds. For those who will be lucky and still have a job, we'll just have to write the prompts, correct the AI and validate what it has done. This will be our job.

The second part of this revolution is the high-intellectual jobs: doctors. Whether you save lives or think about physics, biology or so, you are next. And it will come even quicker because the higher intellectual your job is, the more expensive you are and the more time it takes for you to have results. And the AI cost is always the same. Whether you ask ChatGPT what's the solution of 1+1 or to interpret a blood analysis results, it will cost you the same. Because what is valuable in AI is a token, not the value of the knowledge it holds. But it will take longer to replace those jobs; the risks are higher and more valuable. Would you let a completely autonomous robot operated by ChatGPT touch your body with a scalpel? I would certainly not.

So when? That is the question. I think for the moment most of the companies are not aware of the real power of AI. I can see it as a developer. I'm coding with Claude Code or Kilocode and this is soooooo incredible.
But when I talk about it to other developers, they're pretty reluctant to adopt these AI tools. I think change is complicated for some, but most of them—even without trying or admitting—are afraid of what they can do and of being replaced by them.

Because your big boss is probably not aware of specific AI tools writing code. Only developers know these tools. So if they don't know about them, they won't replace you with them. Nice strategy. And I guess it's the same in the other jobs. So if I may give you some advice, keep your current job; it may be the last one.