--- title: Where Are the AI Jobs—and What Are They? | daily.dev description: A YouTuber speculates about new job categories emerging from AI adoption, such as AI consultants who help businesses (accounting firms, law firms) choose and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-are-the-ai-jobs-and-what-are-they--311vpm87s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where Are the AI Jobs—and What Are They? | daily.dev og:description: A YouTuber speculates about new job categories emerging from AI adoption, such as AI consultants who help businesses (accounting firms, law firms) choose and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-are-the-ai-jobs-and-what-are-they--311vpm87s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/311Vpm87s.png og:image:alt: Where Are the AI Jobs—and What Are They? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where Are the AI Jobs—and What Are They? **[Stefan Mischook](https://daily.dev/sources/stefanmischook)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A YouTuber speculates about new job categories emerging from AI adoption, such as AI consultants who help businesses (accounting firms, law firms) choose and deploy frontier or local AI models, plus secondary jobs tied to data center construction. He shares personal anecdotes of using a custom GPT to triage sponsorship emails (cutting a 25-30 minute task to 1-2 minutes) and using AI to debug a legacy web app (cutting hours to minutes), arguing AI clearly adds economic value. He predicts open-source/local models will become 'good enough' for most business tasks, reducing reliance on expensive frontier cloud models, drawing an analogy to how the early web created entire job categories that didn't exist before. The video includes a sponsorship pitch for his own developer mentoring program. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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