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points by ryandvm 1 day ago | 0 comments

I think it's only "one specific craft" that's being heavily affected right now because software engineers are lazy (in a good way) and as they've been developing generative AI, automating away their own work was the natural choice.

And it has rolled out to the rest of the software engineering industry rapidly because a) it was adjacent to AI development, and b) software engineers are very expensive workers. Graphical design is also being hit due to its proximity to software engineering.

Other information workers are going to start feeling the hurt soon enough, but their respective industry timeline will be correlated with how much money it's going to save to replace them.

Paralegals, customer support, copywriters, data analysts, and any other fields that are purely informational are all going to feel the squeeze.

[–] mjburgess 1 day ago

The ability to automate the reinforcement of "working code" within LLM training means software is a mostly unique case where "good enough correctness" can be done at scale. LLMs are text generation machines, code is text, cli is text: only commands on computers are the kinds of text whose correctness is automated.

Its unclear what other jobs have a billion experts to-hand to grade LLM outputs. Its also unclear what other jobs would even benefit from such a thing.

For most others, it seems LLMs are basically tutors and mentors which existed anyway.