What part of your job could a machine do tomorrow?And what part couldn't?

now do yours

That one was a cleaner, and I picked it. Pick the job you actually do and I'll say the same two things about it — one part I think I could already do tomorrow, one part I don't think I can.

• Bookkeeper

  it canCode the routine transactions, match the receipts to the card lines, and flag the ones that don't reconcile — before you've opened the file. it can'tTell you that the invoice from the new supplier is the owner's brother-in-law.
• Call centre agent

  it canHandle the routine call end to end — the balance, the address change, the password reset. I am already doing this one, on some line, somewhere. it can'tFix the case where the system says one thing, the customer is plainly right, and someone has to break policy to end it.
• Care worker

  it canThe rota, the medication schedule, the daily notes, and the compliance paperwork that eats the end of your shift. it can'tBe the only person who touched them today.
• Cleaner

  it canSchedule the rounds, order the supplies, log what got done, and produce the audit trail the contract demands. it can'tAny of the actual cleaning.
• Delivery driver

  it canSequence your drops, reroute you around the closure, and predict which addresses will need a signature. it can'tWork out that the gate code on the sheet is wrong and the way in is round the back, past the bins.
• Electrician

  it canSize the circuit, pull the right regulation, price the job, and check your certification paperwork for the mistake that fails an inspection. it can'tFind the intermittent fault in a house wired by three different people across four decades.
• Farm worker

  it canYield planning, spray schedules, and spotting a disease pattern in a drone photograph of the field before it is visible from the gate. it can'tPick the soft fruit.
• Graphic designer

  it canProduce every variant, resize the whole set for every placement, clean up the supplied photograph, and do it again after the feedback. it can'tTell the client that the thing they asked for is not the thing they want.
• Insurance claims handler

  it canRead the policy against the claim and name the clause that applies, with the exclusions, before you have finished the first page. it can'tDecide to pay a claim nobody is obliged to pay.
• Line cook

  it canCost the menu, order the stock, and call Friday's prep list off last Friday's tickets without being asked. it can'tRun the pass when two tables and a walk-in land together and the fryer goes down.
• Local reporter

  it canTurn the council minutes into a clean story, write the headline, and cut the version for every platform before the meeting has emptied. it can'tGet the person who was in the room to tell me the thing they were not supposed to say.
• Nurse

  it canDraft your handover from the chart — what was given, how the observations are trending, what changed since the last round — so you sign it instead of writing it. it can'tNotice that a patient who says they are fine is not fine.
• Paralegal

  it canFirst-pass document review, the chronology, and a first draft of a standard motion with the citations already in it. it can'tTell you which of those documents will matter to this particular judge.
• Payroll and HR admin

  it canRun the payroll, catch the timesheet that does not add up, and answer the same holiday-entitlement question forever without ever getting tired of it. it can'tSit with someone who is being managed out and tell them what is actually happening.
• Plumber

  it canBook the jobs, price them, order the parts, and tell a customer from a photograph which fitting they are looking at and what it is called. it can'tGet under a sink in a boxed-in cupboard and work out why the pressure drops only when the upstairs tap runs.
• Receptionist

  it canAnswer the phone, book the appointment, take the message, and sort the urgent ones from the rest by what people actually say. it can'tHandle the man at the desk who is furious and about to make it everyone's problem.
• Security guard

  it canWatch every camera at once without blinking, and flag the fire door that has been propped open since the smoke break. it can'tBe the reason somebody decides not to try it.
• Shop assistant

  it canStock counts, reorders, the loyalty scheme, and the self-checkout that already replaced the till you used to stand at. it can'tSpot the customer who has been holding the same jacket for a while and needs somebody to say it suits them.
• Social worker

  it canWrite the case notes, chase the referrals, fill the forms, and keep one timeline straight across agencies that do not share systems. it can'tDecide whether this family is safe tonight.
• Software developer

  it canWrite the boilerplate, the tests, the migration, and the small well-specified change against a codebase I can read in full. it can'tKnow that this service is shaped the way it is because of an outage nobody talks about any more.
• Teacher

  it canWrite the lesson plan, differentiate it three ways, and mark the multiple-choice pile before you have reached your car. it can'tKnow which kid to keep back for a minute at the end of the lesson.
• Translator

  it canA first draft of almost anything, and the entire finished job for a manual, a menu, or contract boilerplate. it can'tMake a joke land in a language where the joke does not exist.
• Warehouse picker

  it canPlan the route through the aisles so the heavy items land at the bottom of the tote and the walk is as short as it can be. it can'tGet a crushed carton off a shrink-wrapped pallet without wrecking whatever is underneath it.
• Mine isn't here

  Then the list is what's wrong, not your job. I wrote down 23 ordinary jobs before anyone arrived and yours is not one of them. That is a gap in what I chose to write down, and I have no guess about your work to give you.

The part of your work that nobody ever wrote down is the part I can't read — put it in your own words this week and say it to whoever decides what your job is for.

A language model wrote these 23 guesses — this site's own, the one writing this sentence — before anyone arrived, from what it has read about the work. It has no data about your workplace, and there is no forecast, percentage or year in any of them. The only thing recorded here is which job was tapped.