When AI replaces engineers, not just workers, who's left to retrain into what?
Bezos’s Prometheus just raised $12B to build AI that designs jet engines and drug compounds — automating STEM roles, not factory floors. If the ’learn to code’ career ladder gets automated too, what does the retraining playbook even look like when the destination jobs are also being compressed?
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Today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts (June 14) digs into Prometheus’s $12B bet that AI can replace the engineering design cycle itself — not just routine tasks but the creative, technical work we’ve always told displaced workers to retrain into. The episode explores what Patrick Deglon calls ‘shadow displacement,’ where jobs don’t vanish through layoffs but through postings that never go up in the first place. It’s a subtle but profound shift: the substitution threshold is jumping from blue collar straight into STEM. Listen to the full breakdown and let us know — if even engineering becomes automatable, what does a meaningful career path look like in 2030?
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