AI Targets the Office—Not the Workshop Let’s get something straight: AI is not coming for the guy who fixes your furnace. It’s not coming for the woman wiring your home, or the man installing your water heater. It’s coming for the spreadsheet jockeys, the compliance officers, and the cubicle-bound marketers whose work now fits neatly into a chatbot or machine learning model. And yet—after decades of telling kids to “learn to code”—we now face a reality where coders are the ones being replaced. According to workforce modeling by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), the U.S. construction industry alone will need 439,000 new workers in 2025, and nearly half a million the year after. These aren't “jobs of the future”…
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