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> A single engineer with GPT4 could potentially do the work of 10 engineers right now. Big assumption, but if that's possible then businesses will fill that ti
by matwood 4y ago
> A single engineer with GPT4 could potentially do the work of 10 engineers right now.
Big assumption, but if that's possible then businesses will fill that time. What used to take teams of people and big iron can now be done by a single person on a VPC. Did that take away jobs? Nope, requirements only expanded.
- alfalfasprout 4y agoIndeed, folks making these types of conclusions seem to assume that what there is to be built will remain "constant". No, the more productive the tools the bigger the requirements. Modern high level languages didn't eliminate engineers. They suddenly meant one engineer could do what it would have taken 10 to do in COBOL or C and so software became more complex and capable.
- matwood 4y agoI'm reminded of people wanting to go back to plain html. That's great if I can get the business to go back to basic html features. Same with computer speed increases. If anything, humanity has shown uncanny ability exploit any surplus resource for profit. Of course there can be industry shifts (MS was the industry for a long time and IBM before them. Google wasn't always dominant), but the pie grows to fit the available resources.