The level of employment impact is still small as companies also got rid of workers when they shifted to online selling and traditional automation. Walmart recently said that 65 percent of its stores automated within the next three years. This was days after laying off 2,000 employees who fulfill online orders. Walmart ($388 billion valuation with 1.7 million employees) at its quarterly investor call said they will invest heavily in automation to speed up orders at its e-commerce fulfillment facilities. Walmart is hoping to have about 65 percent of its stores automated within the next three years, it has announced – just days after revealing it would be laying off 2,000 employees who fulfill online orders.

Walmart lags behind Amazon in automating warehouses and its supply chain.

Blue-collar workers will lose their job to a robot and regular automation but ChatGPT and AI will impact the white collar jobs. There will be no need to tell any laid-off blue collar worker to learn to code. Elite programmers and product managers will be using ChatGPT and copilot to boost their productivity. Low-level coders will mostly be made redundant. Those who are triggered by the advice "Learn to code" will stop hearing it because this will become useless advice.