Matt Wolfe stopped manually entering spreadsheets because AI does it for him now. A venture capitalist explains how an AI diligence tool changed what skills they hire for, shifting from web-search and copy-paste work to other capabilities. Both see AI replacing tasks, not jobs, if workers adapt.
I feel like AI has already sort of replaced data entry and I know for me it has like I don't manually enter stuff as spreadsheets anymore because I can do it for me just as good as I can. But it didn't take anybody's jobs. It just made me more efficient.
Yeah, I think jobs will change, right? I mean if you look on a super small scale like our venture fund. Right. As I mentioned, I have this diligence tool that does all this research for me but it doesn't mean that like I'm never going to hire people into my fund. It just means that when I hire I'm not going to be looking for that skill set. I don't need somebody who wants to spend time searching the web and copy pasting stuff into a document. I'm okay with someone who sucks that because what I want is different skill sets. If there's certain tasks that technology will replace, then just figure out what other tasks will be needed to support that.
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