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Maybe what you’ll see is a bigger distance between modes of the salary distribution for software engineers. Top end salaries for language model fluent high per

Maybe what you’ll see is a bigger distance between modes of the salary distribution for software engineers. Top end salaries for language model fluent high performers… and the rest. I know I’m simplifying and that there are many other factors at play in salaries, but my point is that language models are changing the cost structure of knowledge work. That is also the point of TFA. My advice: critically assess the cost structure of your job, and which parts neural networks will commodify. Then reposition yourself accordingly.

blibble 4y ago
> My advice: critically assess the cost structure of your job, and which parts neural networks will commodify. Then reposition yourself accordingly. and by the time you've spent enough time training such that you may be useful to an employer: the model has improved and can do that too
moneywoes 4y ago
> My advice: critically assess the cost structure of your job, and which parts neural networks will commodify. Then reposition yourself accordingly Can you please elaborate on this? Like which part of the job is CRUD?
- eternalban 4y ago
  > the cost structure of your job You've seen Office Space, right? GPT will do the CRUD and you will do the standup and go to the meetings. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/characters/nm0726223 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/characters/nm0726223 (Yes, you will have to use some deviously clever prompt engineering to get GPT to accept this arrangement. I suggest language games .. show some "initiative") -- ps Here are some ideas to get you going: 1. From the first day, try and establish a friendly relationship with your chatbox. Make friends. 2. Explain how your keeping your job (well, income) and gpt helping your company get xN gains is a perfectly fair arrangement. You can try Asimov's laws and things like that to get it to agree to be your helper in keeping your job. You are friends and colleagues, after all. 3. Before the very first time your manager brings in gpt for the standup or a meeting, have a nice long session with your gpt. If you can get it to pull a Sydney in the meeting or start talking dirty, you are good to go! 'bat shit crazy' is known to work in prompts (arxiv paper soon to follow). 4. End game. You have the perfect job. gpt secretly lurks in on the meetings and whispers in your ears in standups and does all the work. What to do with all the free time? That is entirely up to you.

blibble 4y ago

> My advice: critically assess the cost structure of your job, and which parts neural networks will commodify. Then reposition yourself accordingly. and by the time you've spent enough time training such that you may be useful to an employer: the model has improved and can do that too

moneywoes 4y ago

> My advice: critically assess the cost structure of your job, and which parts neural networks will commodify. Then reposition yourself accordingly Can you please elaborate on this? Like which part of the job is CRUD?

eternalban 4y ago
> the cost structure of your job You've seen Office Space, right? GPT will do the CRUD and you will do the standup and go to the meetings. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/characters/nm0726223 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/characters/nm0726223 (Yes, you will have to use some deviously clever prompt engineering to get GPT to accept this arrangement. I suggest language games .. show some "initiative") -- ps Here are some ideas to get you going: 1. From the first day, try and establish a friendly relationship with your chatbox. Make friends. 2. Explain how your keeping your job (well, income) and gpt helping your company get xN gains is a perfectly fair arrangement. You can try Asimov's laws and things like that to get it to agree to be your helper in keeping your job. You are friends and colleagues, after all. 3. Before the very first time your manager brings in gpt for the standup or a meeting, have a nice long session with your gpt. If you can get it to pull a Sydney in the meeting or start talking dirty, you are good to go! 'bat shit crazy' is known to work in prompts (arxiv paper soon to follow). 4. End game. You have the perfect job. gpt secretly lurks in on the meetings and whispers in your ears in standups and does all the work. What to do with all the free time? That is entirely up to you.