Lenny RachitskyHost of Lenny's Podcast | Author of Lenny's Newsletter

The weird way AI will change jobs

19 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube talk exploring how AI-driven abundance and near-autonomous companies could create novel, unexpected jobs. The speaker speculates about unconventional skill sets (e.g., being entertaining or providing companionship) and uses OnlyFans as an analogy for paid comfort/connection and everyday paid companionship as emerging roles.

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I was talking to some friends and we were like, you know, what do you do in a world of abundance, where, you know, everything is really cheap and companies operate almost autonomously? I think there's a lot of weird skill sets that we can't imagine right now. Like, for example, being funny to hang out with. You know, think about only fans, right? Right now, there's this whole idea of only fans, where people are paying for comfort and connection. But in a romantic sense, imagine people did that. Day to day, they just love hanging out with funny people. So you have a funny guy who you chat with or comes over to your house or whatever it is. I can imagine that in. In this weird world, there's all these weird new jobs.