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If I was faced with the prospect of losing my job as a software engineer and instead becoming a prompt "engineer", I would simply opt to drop out of the labor m
by shortrounddev 3y ago
If I was faced with the prospect of losing my job as a software engineer and instead becoming a prompt "engineer", I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech. At that point, there are no more interesting problems worth spending your time on. Just become a yak farmer or something and leave
- kranke155 3y agoThis is what I was told as an artist here when Stable Diffusion showed up. Same reaction, to the incredulity of the HN crowd. “Why would you quit” etc
- yunwal 3y agoAs an artist, are you not interested in other types of art besides photography and digital art?
- kranke155 3y agoWriting. I hope that it will be the last thing we automate. As smart as we can make an LLM, can we get it to write original material as good as Ted Chiang? Feels like this would be an AGI-level problem. What I'm definitely not interested in is telling a computer to make images for me. Like I said at the time I trained to be a monk transcribing books. I'm not interested in becoming a printing press operator.
- nyokodo 3y ago> I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech. This is the problem for automation at the limit. Unless we generate an immensely powerful AI that sustains itself entirely then AI will destroy the economy and therefore itself.