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> One email written by GPT and suddenly the whole person can be replaced by it? This is my problem with the current chatGPT hype. People ask it a programming q
by matwood 4y ago
> One email written by GPT and suddenly the whole person can be replaced by it?
This is my problem with the current chatGPT hype. People ask it a programming question and immediately think programmers days are numbered. I have used it to grammar check emails, I guess I'm no longer needed at my company.
I see these advances as the next step in productivity. Letting a tool write 'good' emails or mundane code will let people focus on other problems like figuring out which emails to write or which product features to add.
- adrianN 4y agoAny advance in productivity reduces the number of workers required to do the job.
- matwood 4y agoOne would think, but most advances are also followed by increase business activity to use that new productivity. There have been huge advances in technology, yet we need more technology workers than ever before.
- adrianN 4y agoEventually the music will stop for programmers too, but right now ChatGPT and its variants probably pose a bigger threat to people writing texts for a living. Journalists for example will become a lot more productive.
- matwood 4y agoI've been hearing the music will stop for programmers for the last 30 years. Expert systems and formal specification languages were supposed to be able to generate software. 4/5GLs were supposed to allow anyone to write software (they actually have done an ok job). But with every advance, the business software goal posts moved. An advantage the typical IT worker has is they are generally used to the learn or perish treadmill. So whatever comes out will be incoporated into workflows and more complex software will be built. A rise in real journalism again would be great. Content farm/seo spam/content summarization should have been automated a long ago.