Aug 19, 2026 · 36 min · 8 segments
In this episode of Solving the Riddle, hosts Andrew Whitewood and Alec Riddle sit down with Tiaan Herselman, Investment Specialist at Symmetry (formerly Old Mutual Multi-Managers), to break down the…
more valuable? So let me just give the disclaimer, because we always tend to give disclaimers in these podcasts.
Now, when you look at where we are today, there's more than a billion people using ChatGPT for the first time.
So when you asked me the question, which jobs do I think will be replaced? I think that question is two parts.
So if I'm sitting next to Andrew who's not doing that, when we get to our performance review in 12 months' time, I will have a significant competitive edge on Andrew.
Then to get to your question, which jobs will become redundant? That's quite a difficult prediction to make, but I think the obvious conclusion, because we've physically seen it, is jobs that are repetitive.
So the person sitting in the courthouse room doing the typing, the person summarizing, the person trying to organize all of our diaries, our flights, those type of roles, even on the investment side, I think in the future, are somebody trying to analyze all the statements, analyze different styles and strategies, those roles will become redundant because somebody will be able to do that at a much better scale in less time.
But maybe the question I should ask you, Alex, since I know you don't mind being a provocateur, is which roles do you think will become redundant quite soon?
So things that can be done repetitively, you know, for example, a legal assistant.
Sometimes the memory of the AI model is a little bit outdated, so they won't know about the budget speech updates because the memory was only updated
How many times have we had to prompt a language model right on that, Alec? Just the increase with regards to the retirement fund contribution, the increase from 350 to 430, right? I've got that answer back so many times incorrectly from different language models out there.
No, no, what I'm just thinking is, as you were speaking, so I just prompted a question.
I think the example you used was quite good, because I almost wanted to just quickly latch on to where will it become redundant, but where will it elevate you? So quite recently, and I'm going on a bit of a tangent, so please stop me if I should, but we had a client that came to us saying that my call-in accountant said I should go into this particular structure.
more valuable? So let me just give the disclaimer, because we always tend to give disclaimers in these podcasts.
Now, when you look at where we are today, there's more than a billion people using ChatGPT for the first time.
So when you asked me the question, which jobs do I think will be replaced? I think that question is two parts.
So if I'm sitting next to Andrew who's not doing that, when we get to our performance review in 12 months' time, I will have a significant competitive edge on Andrew.
Then to get to your question, which jobs will become redundant? That's quite a difficult prediction to make, but I think the obvious conclusion, because we've physically seen it, is jobs that are repetitive.
So the person sitting in the courthouse room doing the typing, the person summarizing, the person trying to organize all of our diaries, our flights, those type of roles, even on the investment side, I think in the future, are somebody trying to analyze all the statements, analyze different styles and strategies, those roles will become redundant because somebody will be able to do that at a much better scale in less time.
But maybe the question I should ask you, Alex, since I know you don't mind being a provocateur, is which roles do you think will become redundant quite soon?
So things that can be done repetitively, you know, for example, a legal assistant.
Sometimes the memory of the AI model is a little bit outdated, so they won't know about the budget speech updates because the memory was only updated
How many times have we had to prompt a language model right on that, Alec? Just the increase with regards to the retirement fund contribution, the increase from 350 to 430, right? I've got that answer back so many times incorrectly from different language models out there.
No, no, what I'm just thinking is, as you were speaking, so I just prompted a question.
I think the example you used was quite good, because I almost wanted to just quickly latch on to where will it become redundant, but where will it elevate you? So quite recently, and I'm going on a bit of a tangent, so please stop me if I should, but we had a client that came to us saying that my call-in accountant said I should go into this particular structure.
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