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Except that the problems most (and by that I mean non-software, non-billion-dollar) businesses have are not wordle type puzzle problems. They are 'go through al
by mhuffman 2y ago
Except that the problems most (and by that I mean non-software, non-billion-dollar) businesses have are not wordle type puzzle problems. They are 'go through all of our invoices and put xxxx data in a spreadsheet for me please' type problems or 'copy the data from this app and put it in that app' type problems or responding to emails or responding to simple customer support questions. And these are definitely in the wheelhouse of LLM near-future capabilities.
- bitwize 2y agoAnd the human performers of many of these tasks have been replaced not by AIs but by VBA scripts. It's almost a trope that many Hackernews' first jobs were something of this type, and on the first day they wrote a VBA script to do most or all of it and then collected pay for, effectively, playing Minesweeper all day.
- mhuffman 2y agoThis is true, and how I got into software development as a job, but going forward they will likely be replaced by AI agents off of some site like Zapier.