# Tech work exists everywhere

- **Episode:** [135](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/135.md) (2024-10-10)
- **Type:** panel-interview
- **Tags:** tech-jobs, industry-overview, tech-everywhere, career-opportunities
- **Time:** 48:57–52:16 (start 2937s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/135?t=2937](https://truthliesandwork.com/135?t=2937)

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[48:57] John White: Yeah, technical work is being done at every single company in the world. There is no company that doesn't have, you know, a technical component to it. Every company uses software. Maybe not every company is developing their own software in-house, but they're, they're using it and they're using it on a technical platform. So if you're interested in technology, you know, from, uh, from an operations point of view, you can really work for every company. Uh, large companies have large technology footprints, so you don't need to work, um, at an Amazon or Google or Netflix in order to, to do really good technical work. And, um, you really have the universe of all organizations out there to find a good culture
[49:44] Al Elliott: The tech industry is known for rapid pace of change. Today's hot skills like machine learning might be obsolete tomorrow. So how can you ensure your tech career has staying power? Our guests offer some strategies for remaining relevant in this fast-moving field
[50:00] John White: Another thing that I learned about, you know, thinking in bets, right? It's never a yes/no, it's always a what percentage chance. And there's a book, Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, who is a professional poker player. I'm giving a little bit of background before I give my answer. And she said, in poker, you're probably never more than 60% sure of any information that you don't have. So with a maximum of 60% surety, I mean, I would say I'm at 51 or 52% sure that it is a big thing. There's real problems being solved today. by the technology. Is it going to be revolutionary? It might be. It very well might be. Or it might be revolutionary the way that Google searches were revolutionary, and it's just another tool in your toolbox that you have to know how to do in order to do your job better, no matter what your job is. So Did the fact that there are really good Google searches and really good answers, the ability to find really good answers to things on the internet, did that remove some jobs or cause people to lose jobs? I mean, maybe, right? But it also enabled many, many more jobs and a lot of innovation because information was more accessible. So I think that Generative AI has a chance to do that. Here's a joke that I tell. Already people are losing their jobs, and the number one job that's already been lost to generative AI is prompt engineering, which is how to write really good generative AI prompts. Because what's the first thing that you would do? Ask a generative AI like Chatbot, how do I write Here's what the information I'm looking for. How do I, you know, express that as a prompt better? So anybody who positioned themselves as a, you know, prompt engineer probably is, uh, is looking for a different job right now