It will suck to babysit LLMs as a job. In one sense perhaps it will be nice to have models do the chores. But I fear we’ll be 90% babysitting. Today I was in an

It will suck to babysit LLMs as a job. In one sense perhaps it will be nice to have models do the chores. But I fear we’ll be 90% babysitting. Today I was in an hour long chat with ChatGPT about a problem when it circled back to its initial (wrong) soliton. I have very little fear for my own job no matter how good models get. What happens is that software gets cheaper and more of it is bought. It’s what happened in every industry with automation. Those who can’t operate a machine though (in this case an AI) should maybe worry. But chances are their jobs weren’t very secure to begin with.